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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211436
This reverts commit b7829f959b.
The previous fix was not correct. Like everywhere else, a driver is a
global variable allocated in stateInitialize function (or something
similar for stateless drivers). Later, when a driver API is called,
it's possible that the global variable is accessed and dereferenced.
Now, some drivers require root privileges because they undertake some
actions reserved only for the system admin (e.g. manipulating host
firewall). And here's the trouble, the NWFilter state initializer
exited too early when finding out it's running unprivileged, leaving
the global NWFilter driver variable uninitialized. Any subsequent
API call that tried to lock the driver resulted in dereferencing the
driver and thus crash.
On the other hand, in order to not resurrect the bug the original
commit was fixing, Let's forbid the nwfilter define in session mode.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Conflicts:
src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c: Context. Code changed a bit
since 2013.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>