vfio devices are generated on the fly, but the generic base is missing.
The base vfio has not much functionality but to provide a custom
container by opening this path.
See
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vfio.txt for more.
Current access by qemu is "wr":
[ 2652.756712] audit: type=1400 audit(1491303691.719:25):
apparmor="DENIED" operation="open"
profile="libvirt-17a61b87-5132-497c-b928-421ac2ee0c8a"
name="/dev/vfio/vfio" pid=8486 comm="qemu-system-x86"
requested_mask="wr" denied_mask="wr" fsuid=64055 ouid=0
Bug-Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1678322
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt(a)canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader(a)canonical.com>
---
examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
index 5d811f9..eb4d58c 100644
--- a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
+++ b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
@@ -212,3 +212,6 @@
# silence refusals to open lttng files (see LP: #1432644)
deny /dev/shm/lttng-ust-wait-* r,
deny /run/shm/lttng-ust-wait-* r,
+
+ # for vfio (LP: #1678322)
+ /dev/vfio/vfio rw,
--
2.7.4