Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL] VirtFS Proxy FS driver changes

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

On 01/04/2012 10:28 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
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> The following changes since commit f3c6a169a39d188e98c17a0a0ebfa7f85e5aafdd:
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>    Merge remote-tracking branch 'qemu-kvm/memory/page_desc' into staging (2012-01-03 14:39:05 -0600)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
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>
>    git://github.com/kvaneesh/QEMU.git for-upstream
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> Also available at signed tag  virtfs-proxy-support
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>
> for you to fetch changes up to 84a87cc4cc77f9e6829e20726f00646afe12deed:
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>    hw/9pfs: Add support to use named socket for proxy FS (2012-01-04 21:23:55 +0530)

Pulled.  Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Pass-through security model in QEMU 9p server needs root privilege to do
> few file operations (like chown, chmod to any mode/uid:gid).  There are two
> issues in pass-through security model
>
> 1) TOCTTOU vulnerability: Following symbolic links in the server could
> provide access to files beyond 9p export path.
>
> 2) Running QEMU with root privilege could be a security issue.
>
> To overcome above issues, following approach is used: A new filesytem
> type 'proxy' is introduced. Proxy FS uses chroot + socket combination
> for securing the vulnerability known with following symbolic links.
> Intention of adding a new filesystem type is to allow qemu to run
> in non-root mode, but doing privileged operations using socket IO.
>
> Proxy helper(a stand alone binary part of qemu) is invoked with
> root privileges. Proxy helper chroots into 9p export path and creates
> a socket pair or a named socket based on the command line parameter.
> Qemu and proxy helper communicate using this socket. QEMU proxy fs
> driver sends filesystem request to proxy helper and receives the
> response from it.
>
> Proxy helper is designed so that it can drop the root privilege but
> retaining capbilities that are needed for doing filesystem operations
> (like CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, CAP_FOWNER etc)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Aneesh Kumar K.V (1):
>        hw/9pfs: Move opt validation to FsDriver callback
>
> M. Mohan Kumar (13):
>        hw/9pfs: Move pdu_marshal/unmarshal code to a seperate file
>        hw/9pfs: Add validation to {un}marshal code
>        hw/9pfs: Add new proxy filesystem driver
>        hw/9pfs: File system helper process for qemu 9p proxy FS
>        hw/9pfs: Open and create files
>        hw/9pfs: Create other filesystem objects
>        hw/9pfs: Add stat/readlink/statfs for proxy FS
>        hw/9pfs: File ownership and others
>        hw/9pfs: xattr interfaces in proxy filesystem driver
>        hw/9pfs: Proxy getversion
>        hw/9pfs: Documentation changes related to proxy fs
>        hw/9pfs: man page for proxy helper
>        hw/9pfs: Add support to use named socket for proxy FS
>
>   Makefile                       |   15 +-
>   Makefile.objs                  |    3 +-
>   configure                      |   19 +
>   fsdev/file-op-9p.h             |   17 +-
>   fsdev/qemu-fsdev.c             |   45 +--
>   fsdev/qemu-fsdev.h             |   11 +-
>   fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c    | 1120 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.texi |   63 +++
>   fsdev/virtio-9p-marshal.c      |  323 +++++++++++
>   fsdev/virtio-9p-marshal.h      |   90 +++
>   hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-device.c     |   13 +-
>   hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-handle.c     |   20 +
>   hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-local.c      |   34 ++
>   hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c      | 1210 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.h      |   95 ++++
>   hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.c            |  704 +++++++++++------------
>   hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.h            |   83 +---
>   qemu-config.c                  |   13 +
>   qemu-options.hx                |   32 +-
>   vl.c                           |   18 +-
>   20 files changed, 3414 insertions(+), 514 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
>   create mode 100644 fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.texi
>   create mode 100644 fsdev/virtio-9p-marshal.c
>   create mode 100644 fsdev/virtio-9p-marshal.h
>   create mode 100644 hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c
>   create mode 100644 hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.h
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