Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 09/10] chardev: add support for ACLs for TLS clients

[Eric Blake]

On 03/10/2016 11:59 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Currently any client which can complete the TLS handshake
> is able to use a chardev server. The server admin can turn
> on the 'verify-peer' option for the x509 creds to require
> the client to provide a x509 certificate. This means the
> client will have to acquire a certificate from the CA before
> they are permitted to use the chardev server. This is still
> a fairly weak bar.
> 
> This adds a 'tls-acl=ACL-ID' option to the socket chardev
> backend which takes the ID of a previously added 'QAuthZ'
> object instance. This ACL will be used to validate the client's
> x509 distinguished name. Clients failing the ACL will not be
> permitted to use the chardev server.
> 
> For example to setup an ACL that only allows connection from
> a client whose x509 certificate distinguished name contains
> 'CN=fred', you would use:
> 
>   $QEMU -object tls-creds-x509,id=tls0,dir=/home/berrange/qemutls,\
>                 endpoint=server,verify-peer=yes \
>         -object authz-simple,id=acl0,policy=deny,\
>                 rules.0.match=*CN=fred,rules.0.policy=allow \

Needs shell quoting for *, and also the same recurring comment about
whitespace for presentation not actually being in the command line.

Food for thought: should we enhance QemuOpts to skip all whitespace
after ',', since we _know_ that valid key names start with a letter
rather than a space?  Then, we could represent command lines as:

$QEMU -object 'name,
               param1=value,
               param2=value'

with the same semantics as:

$QEMU -object name,param1=value,param2=value

and without having to worry about backslash-newline-whitespace
formatting.  Obviously, such an enhancement would be a separate patch.

>         -chardev socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=9000,server,\
>                tls-creds=tls0,tls-acl=acl0 \
>         ...other qemud args...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qapi-schema.json |  2 ++
>  qemu-char.c      | 11 ++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Code is fine; my only comments were on the commit message.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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