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qemu: Patch qemu to support image without write access.

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Modify existing patch to include EACCES condition to account for files
that do not have write access to be used as a memory backend.
With this not-only files on a read-only filesystem, but files without
write access on a read-write filesystem can be used as a memory
backend in qemu.
This will alow the image to be used read-only by a rootless user as
well.

Fixes #870

Signed-off-by: Archana Shinde <archana.m.shinde@intel.com>
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Archana Shinde 2019-12-10 11:56:01 -08:00
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qemu/patches/4.1.x/0002-memory-backend-file-nvdimm-support-read-only-files-a.patch
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@ -4,11 +4,12 @@ Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 21:19:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] memory-backend-file/nvdimm: support read-only files as
memory-backends
Currently is not possible to use a file that is part of a read-only
filesystem as memory backend for nvdimm devices, even if this is not modified
in the guest. In order to improve the security of Virtual Machines that share
Currently it is not possible to use a file that is part of a read-only
filesystem as memory backend for nvdimm devices, even if the file itself
is not modified in the guest. Same goes for files that do not have write access.
In order to improve the security of Virtual Machines that share
and do not modify the memory-backend-file, QEMU should support
read-only memory-backeds.
read-only memory-backends.
Use case:
* Kata Containers use a memory-backed-file as read-only rootfs, and this
@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ Use case:
It would be really bad if somehow a malicious container modified it.
Signed-off-by: Julio Montes <julio.montes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Archana Shinde <archana.m.shinde@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20190708211936.8037-1-julio.montes@intel.com>
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exec.c | 6 ++++++
@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ index 3e78de3b8f..a1b6f939fb 100644
break;
}
g_free(filename);
+ } else if (errno == EROFS) {
+ } else if (errno == EROFS || errno == EACCES) {
+ fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd >= 0) {
+ /* @path names an existing read-only file, use it */