[RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix forward type=hostdev nets for apparmor

I'm working on a fix for a bug whereby apparmor permissions aren't granted to allow a PCI SR-IOV virtual function to be used in a kvm guest when the VF is defined via a forward type='hostdev' network (as per the 'hostdev' option documented here: https://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#connectivity ). Downstream bug here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=993856 I'm not sure if the attached patches are sufficient. When I compare the apparmor permissions file for a guest with a VF shared via forward type='hostdev' vs. the same guest with a VF shared via a PCI hostdev device, the latter has extra apparmor permissions for files like: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:10.0/resource3_wc" rw, "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:10.0/resource0_wc" rw, "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:10.0/resource3" rw, "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:10.0/vendor" rw, "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:10.0/reset" rw, "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:10.0/resource" rw, "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:10.0/device" rw, "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:10.0/resource0" rw, "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/0000:03:10.0/config" rw, ... however both guests appear to function in my test environment (Debian 13, 6.12.22-amd64) - i.e. both with and without those entries. So I don't know if those permissions are unneeded, or if they are granted at runtime instead. If those permissions are needed, then I'd appreciate any hints on how to modify virt-aa-helper to discover the PCI address. I appreciate that might not actually be possible because that is dynamically allocated, and so might race - so some other solution might be required. Many Thanks, Tim. Tim Small (2): virt-aa-helper: refactor for readability virt-aa-helper: Allow SR-IOV VF PCI for hostdev networks .../apparmor/usr.lib.libvirt.virt-aa-helper.in | 3 +++ src/security/virt-aa-helper.c | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- 2.47.2