[libvirt] [PATCH] set default seccompSandbox as 0 for qemu

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Fri May 18 11:50:57 UTC 2018


On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 12:42:07PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 07:37:33PM +0800, zhenwei pi wrote:
> > start qemu fail : qemu-system-x86_64: -sandbox on,obsolete=deny,
> >     elevateprivileges=deny,spawn=deny,resourcecontrol=deny:
> >     seccomp support is disabled
> > libvirt version : 4.3
> > qemu version : 2.12
> > reproducer : recompile qemu with ./configure --disable-seccomp, or
> >     remove libseccomp package.
> > 
> > with default seccompSandbox -1, libvirt try to get config from qemu
> > cmdline. if qemu disables seccomp (or misses seccomp package), qemu
> > still reports sandbox help message. libvirt mistakens about qemu real
> > capability.
> > 
> > set default seccompSandbox as 0 in code, and still get user conf
> > from qemu.conf. if user wants to enable seccomp, he should check
> > qemu firstly, then use the right qemu.conf.
> 
> This means that everyone who has a sensibly built QEMU will not have
> seccomp enabled out of the box.
> 
> IMHO it someone has chosen to turn off seccomp when building QEMU
> they can just set this qemu.conf parameter to zero themselves.

Also there's patches to QEMU that will make it possible for libvirt to
detect if QEMU has been compiled without seccomp in future:


  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-05/msg03311.html

Regards,
Daniel
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