On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 02:37:48PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 2:25 PM, Ján Tomko <jto...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 02:09:41PM +0200, marcandre.lur...@redhat.com wrote: > >> > >> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> > >> > >> With qemu <= 3.0, when using "-seccomp on", the seccomp policy is only > >> applied to the main thread, the vcpu worker thread and other worker > >> threads created after seccomp policy is applied; the seccomp policy is > >> not applied to e.g. the RCU thread because it is created before the > >> seccomp policy is applied. > >> > >> Since qemu commit 70dfabeaa79ba4d7a3b699abe1a047c8012db114 "seccomp: > >> set the seccomp filter to all threads", qemu will require seccomp > >> TSYNC flag, and will fail to start if the flag isn't available. > >> > >> Without it, sandboxing is flawed. Disable seccomp capability if the > >> host is not capable of using seccomp TSYNC. > >> > > > > Is there a reason for qemu to advertise 'sandbox' in > > query-commandline-options if it's not usable? > > > > I suppose qemu could probe for the host support, and remove the > -sandbox option if host is not capable. > > The problem would remain for older versions of qemu though. > > So maybe a better plan is to: > - remove sandbox capability if qemu < 3.1 > - disable -sandbox in qemu if host doesn't support TSYNC
If we do the check for qemu < 3.1, then libvirt breaks if a distro backports the fix (eg to RHEL-7). If we don't check for qemu < 3.1, then we used -sandbox, but it has no benefit because its trivially escaped from other threads. This is no worse than how it has worked for entire of existance of the -sandbox command. So probably on balance it sufficient to just make QEMU hide -sandbox if TSYNC is missing, and ignore the question of old QEMUs. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
