Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] build: set up capabilities on qemu-bridge-helper

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 01:10:24PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Out-of-the-box, 'make install' sets up an unusable qemu-bridge-helper since
> it doesn't have the required capabilities.
> 
> Fix by adding them.

Up until now, downstreams had to make the bridge helper executable
setuid, add the cap_net_admin capability, or they did nothing and it was
broken ;-).  CCing downstream package maintainers in case they have any
comments on this patch.

> Note: this may break installing as non-root.  This is actually the right
> thing to do, since not setting up the capability would result in a broken
> setup.  Perhaps we need a configure flag to disable helpers.

Users who have been successfully installing QEMU would be upset if it
suddenly starts failing after this patch.  The bridge helper is a niche
feature that shouldn't cause a regression for the majority of users who
don't care about it.

If we're installing non-root then the bridge helper simply shouldn't be
installed.

> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <address@hidden>
> ---
>  Makefile  | 3 +++
>  rules.mak | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index b15003f..af7748c 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ qemu-img$(EXESUF): qemu-img.o $(block-obj-y) 
> libqemuutil.a libqemustub.a
>  qemu-nbd$(EXESUF): qemu-nbd.o $(block-obj-y) libqemuutil.a libqemustub.a
>  qemu-io$(EXESUF): qemu-io.o $(block-obj-y) libqemuutil.a libqemustub.a
>  
> +qemu-bridge-helper$(EXESUF).capabilities = cap_net_admin
>  qemu-bridge-helper$(EXESUF): qemu-bridge-helper.o
>  
>  fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper$(EXESUF): fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.o 
> fsdev/virtio-9p-marshal.o libqemuutil.a libqemustub.a
> @@ -345,6 +346,8 @@ endif
>  ifneq ($(HELPERS-y),)
>       $(INSTALL_DIR) "$(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)"
>       $(INSTALL_PROG) $(STRIP_OPT) $(HELPERS-y) "$(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)"
> +     $(SETCAP) $(foreach helper, $(HELPERS-y), \
> +         $($(helper).capabilities)+pe "$(DESTDIR)$(libexecdir)"/$(helper))
>  endif
>  ifneq ($(BLOBS),)
>       set -e; for x in $(BLOBS); do \
> diff --git a/rules.mak b/rules.mak
> index 49edb9b..9194c79 100644
> --- a/rules.mak
> +++ b/rules.mak
> @@ -177,3 +177,5 @@ $(shell mkdir -p $(sort $(foreach 
> var,$(nested-vars),$(dir $($(var))))))
>  $(foreach var,$(nested-vars), $(eval \
>    -include $(addsuffix *.d, $(sort $(dir $($(var)))))))
>  endef
> +
> +SETCAP = setcap
> \ No newline at end of file
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
> 
>