On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 5:07 PM Jamie Strandboge <jamie@canonical.com> wrote:
On Mon, 03 Aug 2020, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:

> From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
>
> On some architectures (ppc, s390x, sparc, arm) qemu will read auxv
> to detect hardware capabilities via qemu_getauxval.
>
> Allow that access read-only for the entry owned by the current
> qemu process.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
> ---
>  src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu b/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
> index b132cf0226..25eff20b82 100644
> --- a/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
> +++ b/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
>    owner @{PROC}/@{pid}/task/@{tid}/comm rw,
>    @{PROC}/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap r,
>    @{PROC}/sys/vm/overcommit_memory r,
> +  owner @{PROC}/*/auxv r,

+1 to apply. A code comment that is simply the first sentence of
Stefan's commit message might be a nice touch, but that is not a
blocker.

Yeah I added that comment when researching the reason - added a comment to the commit, but not worth a v2 submission.

Tanks for reading through all of these changes!
 
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Christian Ehrhardt
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