Bug 1465833

Summary: Permission denied when hotplug the chardev with source path as "dev/ttyS0" to the guest
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: yafu <yafu>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: chhu
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Version: 7.4CC: dyuan, fjin, jishao, lmiksik, mprivozn, phrdina, rbalakri, xuzhang, yalzhang, zpeng
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2018-04-10 10:50:46 UTC Type: Bug
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Description yafu 2017-06-28 10:22:18 UTC
Description of problem:
Permission denied when hotplug the chardev with source path as "dev/ttyS0" to the guest

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-3.2.0-14.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to reproduce:
1.Prepare a chardev with source path as "dev/ttyS0":
#cat console.xml
<console type='dev'>
      <source path='/dev/ttyS0'/>
      <target type='virtio' port='1'/>
</console>

2.Attach the chardev to a running guest:
# virsh attach-device V console.xml
error: Failed to attach device from console.xml
error: internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'chardev-add': Could not open '/dev/ttyS0': Permission denied

3.Start a guest with /dev/ttySO chardev device:
#virsh edit V
...
<console type='dev'>
      <source path='/dev/ttyS0'/>
      <target type='virtio' port='1'/>
</console>
...
#virsh start V
Domain V started

#virsh dumpxml V | grep -A5 ttyS0
  <console type='dev'>
      <source path='/dev/ttyS0'/>
      <target type='virtio' port='1'/>
      <alias name='console1'/>
    </console>


Actual results:
/dev/ttyS0 chardev failed to hotplug to the guest with permission denied error, but the guest with this device can start successfully.

Expected results:
If libvirt relabel the source file while starting the guest, it also should relabel the source file while hotpluging the device.

Additional info:
The /dev/ttyS0 chardev can hotunplug from the guest successfully.

Comment 2 Michal Privoznik 2017-08-18 07:00:01 UTC
I think this is fixed upstream by:

commit e93d844b90aab2676a1ad910a165c9c83c99de3d
Author:     Michal Privoznik <mprivozn>
AuthorDate: Mon Jun 19 17:05:31 2017 +0200
Commit:     Michal Privoznik <mprivozn>
CommitDate: Tue Jul 11 14:45:15 2017 +0200

    qemu ns: Create chardev backends more frequently
    
    Currently, the only type of chardev that we create the backend
    for in the namespace is type='dev'. This is not enough, other
    backends might have files under /dev too. For instance channels
    might have a unix socket under /dev (well, bind mounted under
    /dev from a different place).
    
    Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn>
    Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan>

It is part of the 3.6.0 release. This commit was a part of bigger patch set that tried to fix bug 1462060. Therefore I suggest closing this one as a duplicate of that one.

Comment 3 Pavel Hrdina 2017-12-01 12:55:34 UTC
That patch is not good enough, the permission denied failure is still valid.

Upstream patches posted:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-December/msg00020.html

Comment 4 Pavel Hrdina 2017-12-05 13:00:06 UTC
Upstream commit:

commit 1c57eea3625f59a80bea08d8779837a40acc4660
Author: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina>
Date:   Fri Dec 1 13:10:35 2017 +0100

    qemu: fix security labeling for attach/detach of char devices

Comment 7 chhu 2018-01-12 03:51:24 UTC
Reproduced on packages:
libvirt-3.2.0-14.el7_4.7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.9.0-16.el7_4.13.x86_64

Verified on packages:
libvirt-3.9.0-6.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.10.0-14.el7.x86_64

Test steps:
1. Start a guest.
2. Prepare a chardev with source path as "/dev/ttyS0".
#cat console.xml
<console type='dev'>
      <source path='/dev/ttyS0'/>
      <target type='virtio' port='1'/>
</console>

3. Attach the chardev to the running guest successfully.
# virsh attach-device r7 console.xml 
Device attached successfully
# virsh dumpxml r7|grep -A5 ttyS0
      <source path='/dev/ttyS0'/>
      <target type='virtio' port='1'/>
      <alias name='console1'/>
    </console>
4. Login to the guest, check there is new added: /dev/vport1p0

5. Detach the chardev from the running guest successfully, 
   login to the guest, check /dev/vport1p0 is no longer exist.
# virsh detach-device r7 console.xml 
Device detached successfully

# virsh dumpxml r7|grep -A5 console
    <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/1'>
      <source path='/dev/pts/1'/>
      <target type='serial' port='0'/>
      <alias name='serial0'/>
    </console>

According to the test above, set the status to "VERIFIED".

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2018-04-10 10:50:46 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2018:0704