hmm, the change still did not made it upstream. I lost track on it and only see it now checking bugs that became dormant - was that fixed in another way?
** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1525676 Title: qemu runas and sandbox option incompatible, process will hang in futex after setgid Status in QEMU: New Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: With -runas [user] and -sandbox on, qemu process will fail in the process of dropping privileges. While setgid() is done (see below), setuid() is not attempted. Instead process blocks waiting for a futex never to come. [pid 21769] +++ killed by SIGSYS +++ [pid 21767] <... tgkill resumed> ) = 0 [pid 21767] tgkill(21767, 21768, SIGRT_1 <unfinished ...> [pid 21768] <... nanosleep resumed> {0, 7284187}) = ? ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK (Interrupted by signal) [pid 21768] --- SIGRT_1 {si_signo=SIGRT_1, si_code=SI_TKILL, si_pid=21767, si_uid=0} --- [pid 21768] setgid(100) = 0 [pid 21768] futex(0x7f7f0f53fd1c, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0 [pid 21768] rt_sigreturn() = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) [pid 21768] nanosleep({0, 7284187}, <unfinished ...> [pid 21767] <... tgkill resumed> ) = 0 [pid 21767] futex(0x7ffd5a9b6890, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 3, NULL <unfinished ...> [pid 21768] <... nanosleep resumed> 0x7f7f0f53eb00) = 0 [pid 21768] futex(0x55f52acd1f44, FUTEX_WAIT, 4294967295, NULL This bug might be addresses in the discussion/patchset http://qemu.11.n7.nabble.com/PATCH-Add-syscalls-for-runas-and-chroot- to-the-seccomp-sandbox-td359588.html # lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 15.10 Release: 15.10 # apt-cache policy qemu-system-x86 qemu-system-x86: Installed: 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.1 Candidate: 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.1 Version table: *** 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9.1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:2.3+dfsg-5ubuntu9 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1525676/+subscriptions