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Bug 1127159 - libvirt can attach interface to a bridge in session mode
Summary: libvirt can attach interface to a bridge in session mode
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: libvirt
Version: 7.1
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Erik Skultety
QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-08-06 09:58 UTC by Luyao Huang
Modified: 2014-09-26 14:48 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-09-26 12:43:14 UTC
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Description Luyao Huang 2014-08-06 09:58:11 UTC
Description of problem:
libvirt can attach interface to a bridge in session mode

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-1.2.7-1.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.$ virsh uri
qemu:///session

2.$ virsh dumpxml sdsd
    <interface type='network'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:c2:0b:e9'/>
      <source network='host-bridge'/>
      <model type='rtl8139'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>



3.$ virsh net-list --all
 Name                 State      Autostart     Persistent
----------------------------------------------------------
 host-bridge          active     no            yes

4.$ virsh net-dumpxml host-bridge
<network connections='1'>
  <name>host-bridge</name>
  <uuid>3b251430-0eb4-4670-96e5-9ddd6d0bd90f</uuid>
  <forward mode='bridge'/>
  <bridge name='virbr0'/>      <--------------------must use bridge named this
</network>

5.$ brctl show
bridge name        bridge id                STP enabled        interfaces
virbr0                8000.525400a70ba2        yes                virbr0-nic

6.$ virsh start sdsd
Domain sdsd started

7.$ brctl show
bridge name        bridge id                STP enabled        interfaces
virbr0                8000.525400a70ba2        yes                tap0
                                                        virbr0-nic
8.$ virsh domiflist sdsd
Interface  Type       Source     Model       MAC
-------------------------------------------------------
tap0       bridge     virbr0     rtl8139     52:54:00:c2:0b:e9

9.$ ip link

14: tap0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master virbr0 state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 500
    link/ether fe:21:e1:f5:ae:bf brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff


10.$ ip link del tap0
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted

11.$ virsh destroy sdsd
Domain sdsd destroyed

12.$ ip link

Actual results:
libvirt will add a new interface to virbr0 when start the guest

Expected results:
libvirt should not attach interface to a bridge in session mode,and guest can't
start,report error like:
error: Failed to start domain test
error: failed to retrieve file descriptor for interface: Transport
endpoint is not connected


Additional info:

If use a bridge named virbr1 or other,i can't start guest and no
 new interface add by libvirt.The error just like:

$ virsh start test
error: Failed to start domain test
error: failed to retrieve file descriptor for interface: Transport
endpoint is not connected
(also this error messages are not clearly enough)

And found some log :

tailf /var/log/message:
...
Aug  6 14:45:40 localhost kernel: device tap0 left promiscuous mode
Aug  6 14:45:40 localhost kernel: virbr0: port 1(tap0) entered disabled state
Aug  6 14:45:40 localhost kvm: 0 guests now active
Aug  6 14:45:41 localhost kernel: device tap0 entered promiscuous mode
Aug  6 14:45:41 localhost kvm: 1 guest now active
...





I don't know if it is a kind of elevation of privilage,so set private first.

Comment 3 Erik Skultety 2014-09-26 12:43:14 UTC
First of all, the VM should fail to start (tested on RHEL 7 & fedora 20) with an error "unable to set security context" when trying to label a tap device. Secondly, we do check for user privileges, however we rely on qemu-bridge-helper (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU#Bridged_networking_using_qemu-bridge-helper) which is available since QEMU 1.1 and permits to create a tap device on an existing bridge.

Comment 4 Laine Stump 2014-09-26 14:48:10 UTC
Correct. This is specifically requested and supported behavior. Without it, session mode guests would be limited to usermode networking.


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