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Laine Stump 7bf1aa0b9b security: add new virSecurityManagerSetChildProcessLabel API
The existing virSecurityManagerSetProcessLabel() API is designed so
that it must be called after forking the child process, but before
exec'ing the child. Due to the way the virCommand API works, that
means it needs to be put in a "hook" function that virCommand is told
to call out to at that time.

Setting the child process label is a basic enough need when executing
any process that virCommand should have a method of doing that. But
virCommand must be told what label to set, and only the security
driver knows the answer to that question.

The new virSecurityManagerSet*Child*ProcessLabel() API is the way to
transfer the knowledge about what label to set from the security
driver to the virCommand object. It is given a virCommandPtr, and each
security driver calls the appropriate virCommand* API to tell
virCommand what to do between fork and exec.

1) in the case of the DAC security driver, it calls
virCommandSetUID/GID() to set a uid and gid that must be set for the
child process.

2) for the SELinux security driver, it calls
virCommandSetSELinuxLabel() to save a copy of the char* that will be
sent to setexeccon_raw() *after forking the child process*.

3) for the AppArmor security drivers, it calls
virCommandSetAppArmorProfile() to save a copy of the char* that will
be sent to aa_change_profile() *after forking the child process*.

With this new API in place, we will be able to remove
virSecurityManagerSetProcessLabel() from any virCommand pre-exec
hooks.

(Unfortunately, the LXC driver uses clone() rather than virCommand, so
it can't take advantage of this new security driver API, meaning that
we need to keep around the older virSecurityManagerSetProcessLabel(),
at least for now.)
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.gnulib@819b1c38b9 maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-02-01 09:24:00 -07:00
build-aux Document bracket whitespace rules & add syntax-check rule 2012-11-02 14:00:32 +00:00
daemon build: Regenerate man pages on version bump 2013-01-29 13:23:19 +01:00
docs S390: Documentation for CCW address type 2013-02-11 16:27:45 -07:00
examples Remove more trailing semicolons in Python files 2013-02-07 19:52:44 +01:00
gnulib maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-01-02 09:38:30 -07:00
include Introduce API virNodeDeviceLookupSCSIHostByWWN 2013-02-12 00:23:57 +08:00
m4 Fix typo in configure.ac causing $LIBS to gain a copy of $CFLAGS 2013-02-05 18:04:16 +00:00
po Release of libvirt-1.0.2 2013-01-30 10:42:05 +01:00
python Check if classes are derived from object 2013-02-11 18:00:10 +01:00
src security: add new virSecurityManagerSetChildProcessLabel API 2013-02-13 16:11:16 -05:00
tests util: add virendian.h macros 2013-02-12 09:00:15 -07:00
tools virsh-volume.c: Switch to c99 initialization of vshCmdInfo 2013-02-12 17:50:22 +01:00
.dir-locals.el build: avoid tabs that failed syntax-check 2012-09-06 09:43:46 -06:00
.gitignore util: add virendian.h macros 2013-02-12 09:00:15 -07:00
.gitmodules make .gnulib a submodule 2009-07-08 16:17:51 +02:00
.mailmap Autogenerate AUTHORS 2012-10-19 12:44:56 -04:00
AUTHORS.in Add John Ferlan to the committers list 2013-02-05 10:59:32 -05:00
autobuild.sh Switch automated builds to use Mingw64 toolchain instead of Mingw32 2012-06-25 10:41:10 +01:00
autogen.sh build: fix incremental autogen.sh when no AUTHORS is present 2012-12-03 14:59:09 -07:00
bootstrap maint: update to latest gnulib 2013-02-01 09:24:00 -07:00
bootstrap.conf build: use autobuild module to make build logs nicer 2013-01-02 16:43:58 -07:00
cfg.mk hacking: Add some details to handle Valgrind output 2013-02-07 14:08:14 -05:00
ChangeLog-old virterror.c: Fix several spelling mistakes 2012-02-03 11:32:51 -07:00
configure.ac Release of libvirt-1.0.2 2013-01-30 10:42:05 +01:00
COPYING.LIB remove all trailing blank lines 2009-07-16 15:06:42 +02:00
HACKING Turn virSecurityManager into a virObjectLockable 2013-02-11 12:33:41 +00:00
libvirt.pc.in build: silence warning from autoconf 2012-05-30 09:22:02 -06:00
libvirt.spec.in spec: Fix minor changelog issues 2013-02-05 10:00:32 +01:00
Makefile.am build: Fix AUTHORS generation 2012-12-17 21:17:55 +01:00
Makefile.nonreentrant Ban use of all inet_* functions 2010-10-22 11:59:23 +01:00
mingw-libvirt.spec.in spec: indent %if to make it easier to see conditions 2013-01-21 10:36:14 -07:00
README Correct typos in the documentation (Atsushi SAKAI) 2008-01-24 10:15:13 +00:00
README-hacking maint: relax git minimum version 2010-02-24 14:29:27 -05:00
run.in Add a virtlockd client as a lock driver impl 2012-12-13 15:26:57 +00:00
TODO Update todo list file to point at bugzilla/website 2010-10-13 16:45:26 +01:00

         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>