Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] block: Add BDRV_O_NO_SHARE for blk_new_open()

[Eric Blake]

On 4/22/21 11:43 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Normally, blk_new_open() just shares all permissions. This was fine
> originally when permissions only protected against uses in the same
> process because no other part of the code would actually get to access
> the block nodes opened with blk_new_open(). However, since we use it for
> file locking now, unsharing permissions becomes desirable.
> 
> Add a new BDRV_O_NO_SHARE flag that is used in blk_new_open() to unshare
> any permissions that can be unshared.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> ---
>  include/block/block.h |  1 +
>  block/block-backend.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

> 
> diff --git a/include/block/block.h b/include/block/block.h
> index b3f6e509d4..735db05a39 100644
> --- a/include/block/block.h
> +++ b/include/block/block.h
> @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ typedef struct HDGeometry {
>      uint32_t cylinders;
>  } HDGeometry;
>  
> +#define BDRV_O_NO_SHARE    0x0001 /* don't share permissons */

permissions


With the typo fix,

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>


-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3226
Virtualization:  qemu.org | libvirt.org