Before this, attempting to use a ROM that was not explictly marked at read only resulted in an error at startup time. Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> --- src/security/virt-aa-helper.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/security/virt-aa-helper.c b/src/security/virt-aa-helper.c index f4ec6b7826..3ac4740fb5 100644 --- a/src/security/virt-aa-helper.c +++ b/src/security/virt-aa-helper.c @@ -1021,7 +1021,15 @@ get_files(vahControl * ctl) if (ctl->def->os.loader && ctl->def->os.loader->path) { bool readonly = false; + + /* Look at the readonly attribute, but also keep in mind that ROMs + * are always loaded read-only regardless of whether the attribute + * is present. Validation ensures that nonsensical configurations + * (type=rom readonly=no) are rejected long before we get here */ virTristateBoolToBool(ctl->def->os.loader->readonly, &readonly); + if (ctl->def->os.loader->type == VIR_DOMAIN_LOADER_TYPE_ROM) + readonly = true; + if (vah_add_file(&buf, ctl->def->os.loader->path, readonly ? "rk" : "rwk") != 0) { -- 2.53.0