[Bug 691590] Re: libvirt restore exactly the old ownership of images
Christian Ehrhardt
691590 at bugs.launchpad.net
Thu Jun 25 13:36:02 UTC 2020
** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+
+ * A rather old bug which could have been solved much sooner. Attr support
+ was disabled way back in time for triggering some test issues. Since
+ then the test issues and also many more rough edges of ATTR support have
+ been fixed.
+
+ * This change shall enable attr support again which allows libvirt to
+ remember and carry ownership information on image files as extended
+ attributes.
+
+ [Test Case]
+
+ * Prepare a guest that you can start/stop e.g. with uvtool-libvirt
+ * Own the image by anything other than root:root
+ * Start the guest (ownership will change to the user the guest runs as)
+ * Stop the guest:
+ - fail: will set root:root to the images effectively stealing them
+ - correct: remembers the old ownership and restores that
+
+ [Regression Potential]
+
+ * This mostly influences DAC control of files, which is exactly what we
+ want to fix. There are a few lifecycle tasks which now also have to
+ carry labels e.g. on any image handling. I don't expect regressions, but
+ this is the place to look out for.
+ * The behavior on File systems unable to XATTR matches that of the
+ formerly disable feature, so on those cases where it has no positive
+ change it will have no change at all.
+
+ [Other Info]
+
+ * Technically we could backport this into all releases, but while I find
+ it right to fix in Focal OTOH Bionic and even more so Xenial really are
+ even "more stable" after their time in the field. Users either have
+ adapted already or even rely/expect the semi-broken behavior. Therefore
+ this is only targetting Focal intentionally.
+
+ * (very) worst case one can set the FS the images are on to "nouser_xattr"
+ as mount option.
+
+
+ ---
+
Natty (and it was also the same on Maverick, IIRC).
When you assign an ISO to a VM, libvirt will take over onwership of the
ISO. This creates problems if the ISO is updated.
For example, I am daily updating the Natty server ISOs, and running
tests on them via KVM (all automated). The ISO updates will fail because
libvirt chowns them.
I see no reason for this: libvirt only needs the ISO as input.
WORKAROUND:
edit /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf, change 'dynamic_ownership = 0', restart qemu/KVM.
** Also affects: libvirt (Ubuntu Focal)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Focal)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: libvirt (Ubuntu Focal)
Status: New => Triaged
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Title:
libvirt restore exactly the old ownership of images
Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in libvirt source package in Focal:
Triaged
Bug description:
[Impact]
* A rather old bug which could have been solved much sooner. Attr support
was disabled way back in time for triggering some test issues. Since
then the test issues and also many more rough edges of ATTR support have
been fixed.
* This change shall enable attr support again which allows libvirt to
remember and carry ownership information on image files as extended
attributes.
[Test Case]
* Prepare a guest that you can start/stop e.g. with uvtool-libvirt
* Own the image by anything other than root:root
* Start the guest (ownership will change to the user the guest runs as)
* Stop the guest:
- fail: will set root:root to the images effectively stealing them
- correct: remembers the old ownership and restores that
[Regression Potential]
* This mostly influences DAC control of files, which is exactly what we
want to fix. There are a few lifecycle tasks which now also have to
carry labels e.g. on any image handling. I don't expect regressions, but
this is the place to look out for.
* The behavior on File systems unable to XATTR matches that of the
formerly disable feature, so on those cases where it has no positive
change it will have no change at all.
[Other Info]
* Technically we could backport this into all releases, but while I find
it right to fix in Focal OTOH Bionic and even more so Xenial really are
even "more stable" after their time in the field. Users either have
adapted already or even rely/expect the semi-broken behavior. Therefore
this is only targetting Focal intentionally.
* (very) worst case one can set the FS the images are on to "nouser_xattr"
as mount option.
---
Natty (and it was also the same on Maverick, IIRC).
When you assign an ISO to a VM, libvirt will take over onwership of
the ISO. This creates problems if the ISO is updated.
For example, I am daily updating the Natty server ISOs, and running
tests on them via KVM (all automated). The ISO updates will fail
because libvirt chowns them.
I see no reason for this: libvirt only needs the ISO as input.
WORKAROUND:
edit /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf, change 'dynamic_ownership = 0', restart qemu/KVM.
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