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Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] xen: xenstore: add possibility to preserve owner



On 21/11/2023 22:10, Volodymyr Babchuk wrote:
Add option to preserve owner when creating an entry in Xen Store. This
may be needed in cases when Qemu is working as device model in a

*may* be needed?

I don't undertstand why this patch is necessary and the commit comment isn't really helping me.

domain that is Domain-0, e.g. in driver domain.

"owner" parameter for qemu_xen_xs_create() function can have special
value XS_PRESERVE_OWNER, which will make specific implementation to
get original owner of an entry and pass it back to
set_permissions() call.

Please note, that XenStore inherits permissions, so even if entry is
newly created by, it already has the owner set to match owner of entry
at previous level.

Signed-off-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <volodymyr_babchuk@xxxxxxxx>




 


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