[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 00/24] Provide some actual restriction of qemu

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

With this series, it is possible to run qemu in a way that I think
really does not have global privilege any more.

I have verified that it runs as a non-root user.  I have checked all
of its fds and they are either privcmd (which I have arranged to
neuter), or /dev/null, or harmless sockets and pipes, or evtchn.

Unfortunately this needs a new "xentoolcore" library, which all the
existing libraries register with so that the restrict call is
effective.

Also there are a number of lacunae.  See the documentation patches.

The series depends for its functionality on the corresponding qemu
series.

 a  01/26] xen: Provide XEN_DMOP_remote_shutdown
 a  02/26] xen: x86 dm_op: add missing newline before
 a  03/26] tools: libxendevicemodel: Provide
 a* 04/26] xentoolcore, _restrict_all: Introduce new library and
 a  05/26] xentoolcore: Link into stubdoms
  + 06/26] xentoolcore: Link into minios (update
 a  07/26] tools: qemu-xen build: prepare to link against
 a  08/26] libxl: #include "xentoolcore_internal.h"
 a  09/26] tools: move CONTAINER_OF to xentoolcore_internal.h
 a  10/26] xentoolcore_restrict_all: Implement for
 a  11/26] xentoolcore_restrict_all: "Implement" for libxencall
 a  12/26] xentoolcore_restrict: Break out
 a  13/26] xentoolcore_restrict_all: Implement for
 a  14/26] xentoolcore_restrict_all: Declare problems due to no
 a  15/26] xentoolcore_restrict_all: "Implement" for xengnttab
 a  16/26] tools/xenstore: get_handle: use "goto err" error
 a  17/26] tools/xenstore: get_handle: Allocate struct before
 a  18/26] xentoolcore_restrict_all: "Implement" for xenstore
 a  19/26] xentoolcore, _restrict_all: Document implementation
 a  20/26] xl, libxl: Provide dm_restrict
 a  21/26] libxl: Rationalise calculation of user to run qemu as
 a  22/26] libxl: libxl__dm_runas_helper: return pwd
 a  23/26] libxl: userlookup_helper_getpwnam rename and turn into
 a* 24/26] libxl: dm_restrict: Support uid range user
 a  25/26] tools: xentoolcore_restrict_all: use domid_t
  + 26/26] xl: Document VGA problems arising from lack of physmap

 a = acked (or, reviewed, for hypervisor patches)
 * = modified (acks retained since minor changes only)
 + = new in v4 of the series (since the original v3 post)

Thanks,
Ian.

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