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From: | Farhan Ali |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-block] qemu-iotests 232 fails when running the test as root user |
Date: | Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:46:07 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 |
On 11/29/2018 04:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 11/29/18 3:03 PM, Farhan Ali wrote:Hi,I am seeing a failure of the qemu-iotest number 232 when running the test as a root user. Is this the expected behavior?Here is the output of the failure:-QEMU_PROG: -drive driver=file,file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT,if=none,read-only=off,auto-read-only=off: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT': Permission denied-NODE_NAME: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT (file, read-only) -NODE_NAME: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT (file, read-only) --QEMU_PROG: -drive driver=file,file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT,if=none,auto-read-only=off: Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT': Permission denied-NODE_NAME: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT (file, read-only) -NODE_NAME: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT (file, read-only) +NODE_NAME: TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT (file)Not entirely unexpected (since root can read what are otherwise read-only files), but obviously unexpected by the test. The test should probably refuse to run as root.
Yes, I believe it would be better if there was a check to prevent running this test as root.
Thanks Farhan
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