[PATCH] qemu: do not allow /dev/rtc or /dev/hpet access via the devices cgroup

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Tue May 19 08:10:54 UTC 2020


On 5/19/20 1:06 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The RTC and HPET modes for the QEMU emulation tick have been dropped almost 9 years
> ago, in commit 25f3151ece1d5881826232bebccc21b588d4e03e.  Do not allow them in the

qemu.git $ git describe --tags 25f3151ece1d5881826232bebccc21b588d4e03e
v0.14.0-rc0-1169-g25f3151ece

and the minimum supported version is 1.5.0 so this is safe to merge from 
min version POV.

> devices cgroup policy.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
> ---
>   docs/drvqemu.html.in               | 1 -
>   src/qemu/qemu.conf                 | 1 -
>   src/qemu/qemu_cgroup.c             | 1 -
>   src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in | 2 --
>   4 files changed, 5 deletions(-)

It's not only QEMU that might use these but also a library that is 
linking with. However, quick strace showed no access to either of the 
files so:

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>

And pushed.

Michal




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