Bug 740482

Summary:	[sVirt] sVirt should not force relabel the running guest's img and give it to a new defined guest
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Wayne Sun <gsun>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Osier Yang <jyang>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version:	6.2	CC:	acathrow, dallan, mzhan, rwu, whuang
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Description Wayne Sun 2011-09-22 08:15:18 UTC

Description of problem:
Define a domain using a image already used by a running guest, then start the new defined domain. The img will be relabelled and taken over by the new defined domain, at the same time the running guest get broken for fail to read/write from the img.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -q libvirt qemu-kvm kernel
libvirt-0.9.4-12.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.192.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-197.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. prepare a running guest
2. define a new guest which using the img file of the runnning guest
# virsh define domain.xml
In domain.xml:
<source file='/img/of/already/running/domain'/>

and no <seclabel> in the xml

3. start the new defined guest
# virsh start $new_defined_guest

4. check both guest by virt-viewer

  
Actual results:
image label was forced change to owned by new domain, and the running domain is broken.

Expected results:
the new defined and started guest can not take over the running domain's img, sVirt should denied it

Additional info:
Test this also on libvirt-0.9.4-11 and libvirt-0.9.4-7.2, the result is the same as on -12.
But on libvirt-0.9.4-7 and -6, both guests can running well.

Comment 1 Dave Allan 2011-09-22 15:02:29 UTC

There is no relevant change between 0.9.4-7 and 0.9.4-7.2, so something else is different in your environment.

Comment 2 Wayne Sun 2011-09-23 03:36:10 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> There is no relevant change between 0.9.4-7 and 0.9.4-7.2, so something else is
> different in your environment.

There is something different, I use fresh install machine but with different qemu-kvm and kernel

For 7:
# rpm -q libvirt qemu-kvm kernel
libvirt-0.9.4-7.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.184.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-192.el6.x86_64

For 7.2:
# rpm -q libvirt qemu-kvm kernel
libvirt-0.9.4-7.2.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.190.el6.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32-193.el6.x86_64

For another try of direct downgrade libvirt from 11 to 7 and 6, the result is same with 11 and 12. The qemu-kvm is 0.12.1.2-2.185 in this try.

Comment 3 Osier Yang 2011-09-23 07:35:02 UTC

@Wayne, can you test if it works well when the disk is shared or readonly?

Comment 4 Osier Yang 2011-09-23 08:24:21 UTC

Confirmed with Wayne, just as expected, there is no problem for disk which is specified as *shareable* or *readonly*.

But IMHO we need to prevent defining a domain which has disk used by other domains.

Posted RFC patch to upstream for further discussion.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-September/msg00935.html