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This patch fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664406 If qemu is run as a different uid, it has been unable to access mode 0660 files that are owned by a different user, but with a group that the qemu is a member of (aside from the one group listed in the passwd file), because initgroups() is not being called prior to the exec. initgroups will change the group membership of the process (and its children) to match the new uid. To make this happen, the setregid()/setreuid() code in qemuSecurityDACSetProcessLabel has been replaced with a call to virSetUIDGID(), which does both of those, plus calls initgroups. Similar, but not identical, code in qemudOpenAsUID() has been replaced with virSetUIDGID(). This not only consolidates the functionality to a single location, but also potentially fixes some as-yet unreported bugs.
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>