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Bug 825068

Summary: Start a guest with assigned usb device which is used by another guest will reset the label
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: weizhang <weizhan>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 6.3CC: acathrow, ajia, dallan, dyasny, dyuan, mprivozn, mzhan, rwu, veillard
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: libvirt-0.9.13-3.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-02-21 07:15:25 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Flags
log for starting 2 guest with assigned same usb none

Description weizhang 2012-05-25 02:07:03 UTC
Created attachment 586744 [details]
log for starting 2 guest with assigned same usb

Description of problem:
When start the guest with assigned usb device which is used by other guest will cause the label of use changed back to
system_u:object_r:usb_device_t:s0

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.32-269.el6.x86_64
qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.292.el6.x86_64
libvirt-0.9.10-21.el6.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start a guest with assigned usb device, check the label of usb
# cat usb.xml
    <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='usb' managed='yes'>
      <source>
        <address bus='2' device='7'/>
      </source>
    </hostdev>
# virsh attach-device kvm-rhel6u3-x86_64 usb.xml --persistent
# virsh start kvm-rhel6u3-x86_64
Domain kvm-rhel6u3-x86_64 started

# ll /dev/bus/usb/002/ -Z
crw-rw-r--. root root system_u:object_r:usb_device_t:s0 001
crw-rw-r--. qemu qemu system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c402,c919 007

2. Start second guest with assigned same usb device, check the label of usb
# virsh attach-device kvm-rhel6u3-i386 usb.xml --persistent
# virsh start kvm-rhel6u3-i386
error: Failed to start domain kvm-rhel6u3-i386
error: Requested operation is not valid: USB device 002:007 is in use by domain kvm-rhel6u3-x86_64

# ll /dev/bus/usb/002/ -Z
crw-rw-r--. root root system_u:object_r:usb_device_t:s0 001
crw-rw-r--. root root system_u:object_r:usb_device_t:s0 007

  
Actual results:
The label changed back to system_u:object_r:usb_device_t:s0

Expected results:
The label should keep after first guest started

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michal Privoznik 2012-06-12 09:32:21 UTC
Moving to POST:

commit 86032b2276ace5a7977aad2bbae73b4c33e31914
Author:     Michal Privoznik <mprivozn>
AuthorDate: Mon Jun 11 15:57:19 2012 +0200
Commit:     Michal Privoznik <mprivozn>
CommitDate: Tue Jun 12 11:14:38 2012 +0200

    qemu: Don't overwrite security labels
    
    Currently, if qemuProcessStart fail at some point, e.g. because
    domain being started wants a PCI/USB device already assigned to
    a different domain, we jump to cleanup label where qemuProcessStop
    is performed. This unconditionally calls virSecurityManagerRestoreAllLabel
    which is wrong because the other domain is still using those devices.
    
    However, once we successfully label all devices/paths in
    qemuProcessStart() from that point on, we have to perform a rollback
    on failure - that is - we have to virSecurityManagerRestoreAllLabel.

commit 69dd77149cacc6b12740bd70b729b6cb7506f4e0
Author:     Michal Privoznik <mprivozn>
AuthorDate: Mon Jun 11 15:20:44 2012 +0200
Commit:     Michal Privoznik <mprivozn>
CommitDate: Tue Jun 12 09:57:02 2012 +0200

    qemuProcessStop: Switch to flags
    
    Currently, we are passing only one boolean (migrated) so there is
    no real profit in this. But it creates starting position for
    next patch.

v0.9.12-180-g86032b2
v0.9.12-179-g69dd771

Comment 4 Alex Jia 2012-07-24 08:46:45 UTC
I can reproduce this issue on libvirt-0.9.10-21.el6.x86_64 with qemu-img-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.x86_64, and it's fine on libvirt-0.9.13-3.el6.x86_64 with qemu-img-rhev-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6.x86_64, so move the bug to VERIFIED status.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 07:15:25 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.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0276.html