Hey Erik, On 2/4/19 8:11 AM, Erik Skultety wrote: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 07:40:36PM -0200, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote: >> Update: I've figured it out. >> >> The bug here was that, even running as root, I was getting errors like: >> >> error : virQEMUCapsNewForBinaryInternal:4687 : internal error: >> Failed to >> probe QEMU binary with >> QMP: libvirt:  error : prctl failed to enable 'dac_override' in the >> AMBIENT >> set: >> Operation not permitted > Being responsible for the latest changes wrt to capabilities, this > error itself > is very strange because the prctl man page says the following about > EPERM errno: > > "option is PR_CAP_AMBIENT and arg2 is PR_CAP_AMBIENT_RAISE, but > either the > capability specified in arg3 is not present in the process's > permitted and > inheritable capability sets, or the PR_CAP_AMBIENT_LOWER securebit > has been > set." > > So I'm wondering how can that be since that prctl call happens after > we applied > the capabilities we want with capng_apply. Just out of curiosity, > what happens > if you move the whole PR_CAP_AMBIENT at the very end of > virSetUIDGIDWithCaps > function? Does it change anything? Moving the code as  you suggested got rid of the internal error: --- a/src/util/virutil.c +++ b/src/util/virutil.c @@ -1587,27 +1587,6 @@ virSetUIDGIDWithCaps(uid_t uid, gid_t gid, gid_t *groups, int ngroups,          goto cleanup;      } -# ifdef PR_CAP_AMBIENT -    /* we couldn't do this in the loop earlier above, because the capabilities -     * were not applied yet, since in order to add a capability into the AMBIENT -     * set, it has to be present in both the PERMITTED and INHERITABLE sets -     * (capabilities(7)) -     */ -    for (i = 0; i <= CAP_LAST_CAP; i++) { -        capstr = capng_capability_to_name(i); - -        if (capBits & (1ULL << i)) { -            if (prctl(PR_CAP_AMBIENT, PR_CAP_AMBIENT_RAISE, i, 0, 0) < 0) { -                virReportSystemError(errno, -                                     _("prctl failed to enable '%s' in the " -                                       "AMBIENT set"), -                                     capstr); -                goto cleanup; -            } -        } -    } -# endif -      /* Set bounding set while we have CAP_SETPCAP.  Unfortunately we cannot       * do this if we failed to get the capability above, so ignore the       * return value. @@ -1630,6 +1609,27 @@ virSetUIDGIDWithCaps(uid_t uid, gid_t gid, gid_t *groups, int ngroups,          goto cleanup;      } +# ifdef PR_CAP_AMBIENT +    /* we couldn't do this in the loop earlier above, because the capabilities +     * were not applied yet, since in order to add a capability into the AMBIENT +     * set, it has to be present in both the PERMITTED and INHERITABLE sets +     * (capabilities(7)) +     */ +    for (i = 0; i <= CAP_LAST_CAP; i++) { +        capstr = capng_capability_to_name(i); + +        if (capBits & (1ULL << i)) { +            if (prctl(PR_CAP_AMBIENT, PR_CAP_AMBIENT_RAISE, i, 0, 0) < 0) { +                virReportSystemError(errno, +                                     _("prctl failed to enable '%s' in the " +                                       "AMBIENT set"), +                                     capstr); +                goto cleanup; +            } +        } +    } +# endif + However, this code still doesn't add IPC_LOCK as capability: index 0d58f1ee57..f4b46abc08 100644 --- a/src/util/virutil.c +++ b/src/util/virutil.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c @@ -4525,6 +4525,9 @@ virQEMUCapsInitQMPCommandRun(virQEMUCapsInitQMPCommandPtr cmd,      /* QEMU might run into permission issues, e.g. /dev/sev (0600), override       * them just for the purpose of probing */      virCommandAllowCap(cmd->cmd, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE); +    virCommandAllowCap(cmd->cmd, CAP_IPC_LOCK); +    virCommandAllowCap(cmd->cmd, CAP_IPC_OWNER); +  #endif So I am not sure if my mod above is wrong or your suggestion of moving the PR_CAP_AMBIENT code made the warning go away but isn't setting the capabilities at all. I'll investigate it more. DHB > > Thanks, > Erik > >> The reason is that the host has libcap-ng installed. ./configure >> uses it if >> available, >> setting WITH_CAPNG in the code. I am unsure if this has something to >> do with >> the libcap-ng configuration in this system I'm using or if there is >> something >> missing in the Libvirt code, but the spawned QEMU process isn't >> inheriting >> the >> capabilities it should have. >> >> Disabling support of this lib with "--with-capng=no" in autogen.sh and >> rebuilding Libvirt fixed the problem. I was even able to see more NUMA >> nodes than I was before using the system libvirt (which is the original >> bug I am/was investigating). >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >> >> On 2/1/19 4:04 PM, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm facing a strange behavior when running Libvirt from source code, >>> latest upstream, on an Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Power 9 server. My QEMU >>> guest - which is using VFIO and GPU passthrough - breaks on boot when >>> trying to allocate a DMA window inside KVM. >>> >>> Debugging the code, I've found out that the problem is related to the >>> process >>> not having CAP_IPC_LOCK - at least from the host kernel perspective. >>> >>> This is strange because: >>> >>> - the same VM running directly from QEMU command line works >>> - the same VM running in the system Libvirt (v4.0.0, Ubuntu version) >>> also works >>> >>> What am I missing? My understanding on Linux process is that a process >>> running as root should inherit the same capabilities of the user, >>> which >>> includes >>> CAP_IPC_LOCK. Running Libvirt from source code should grant ipc_lock >>> to it ... right? >>> >>> >>> >>> Any help is appreciated. I can provide more details (VM XML for >>> example) >>> if necessary. >>> >>> >>> Thanks! >> -- >> libvir-list mailing list >> libvir-list(a)redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list

Hi Erik, Just to let you know that the error I reported in one of my replies was being caused by one change I forgot to undo. This error here: error : virQEMUCapsNewForBinaryInternal:4687 : internal error: Failed to probe QEMU binary with QMP: libvirt:  error : prctl failed to enable 'dac_override' in the AMBIENT set: Operation not permitted was happening because I have commented out this line inside qemu_capabilities.c: --- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c @@ -4519,7 +4519,7 @@ virQEMUCapsInitQMPCommandRun(virQEMUCapsInitQMPCommandPtr cmd,                                      "-daemonize",                                      NULL);      virCommandAddEnvPassCommon(cmd->cmd); -    virCommandClearCaps(cmd->cmd); +   // virCommandClearCaps(cmd->cmd);  #if WITH_CAPNG      /* QEMU might run into permission issues, e.g. /dev/sev (0600), override Thus there is no need to move the PR_CAP_AMBIENT around to prevent the error message. Sorry for any alarms I might have raised there. I'm still experiencing the issue with IPC_LOCK inside the guest though. I'll update here when I have concrete findings about it.