From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top, Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>,
Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] contrib/selinux: Enable mapping guest memory for libvirt guests
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:37:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250214143705.0ca05b19@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABJz62OnC+SOKRqjYvQCc_wTRBTxawtwgi5C7YtWr2Mjg_pmTg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 05:30:44 -0800
Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 11:16:42PM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > This doesn't actually belong to passt's own policy: we should export
> > an interface and libvirt's policy should use it, because passt's
> > policy shouldn't be aware of svirt_image_t at all.
> >
> > However, libvirt doesn't maintain its own policy, which makes policy
> > updates rather involved. Add this workaround to ensure --vhost-user
> > is working in combination with libvirt, as it might take ages before
> > we can get the proper rule in libvirt's policy.
>
> Is the need to update libvirt's policy for these passt changes being
> tracked anywhere?
No. :)
> Because if not it will not take ages, it will simply never happen.
It will happen. :)
> Especially if a workaround in passt's policy effectively sweeps the
> issue under the rug.
I'll take up the rug next week. :)
--
Stefano
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-13 22:16 [PATCH] contrib/selinux: Enable mapping guest memory for libvirt guests Stefano Brivio
2025-02-14 13:30 ` Andrea Bolognani
2025-02-14 13:37 ` Stefano Brivio [this message]
2025-02-20 16:28 ` Stefano Brivio
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