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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 06:58:47PM +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
> At 03/14/2012 06:52 PM, Avi Kivity Wrote:
> > On 03/14/2012 12:52 PM, Wen Congyang wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> If so, is this channel visible to guest userspace? If the channle is visible to guest
> >>>> userspace, the program running in userspace may write the same message to the channel.
> >>>
> >>> Access control is via permissions. You can have udev scripts assign
> >>> whatever uid and gid to the port of your interest. By default, all
> >>> ports are only accessible to the root user.
> >>
> >> We should also prevent root user writing message to this channel if it is
> >> used for panicked notification.
> >>
> >
> > Why? root can easily cause a panic.
> >
>
> root user can write the same message to virtio-serial while the guest is running...
>
So what?

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Gleb.


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