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Re: [Xen-devel] problem of the permissions system in xenstore


  • To: Max Zhen <Max.Zhen@xxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:03:32 +0000
  • Delivery-date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:38:43 -0800
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
  • Thread-index: Acb9pV5KnL9F/GmYEduzowAX8io7RQ==
  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] problem of the permissions system in xenstore

On 1/11/06 10:32, "Max Zhen" <Max.Zhen@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is it a bug that a domU has no read permission to a path while has read
> permission to a path under it?

No that is valid, but the xenstored code is also quite anal about letting
untrusted clients know about presence/absence of nodes in subtrees for which
it has no access permissions. This case is obviously a bug -- a watch should
fire when a watched node disappears, even if the watcher cannot tell the
difference between that and the node being inaccessible.

I presume you have already tracked this down in xenstored. Can you make a
patch?

 -- Keir



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