vhost-net todo list

Arnd Bergmann
2009-09-17T12:14:06Z

On Thursday 17 September 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:30:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 September 2009, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Also, I might not want to allow the user to open a
> > > > random random raw socket, but only one on a specific
downstream
> > > > port of a macvlan interface, so I can filter out the data
from
> > > > that respective MAC address in an external switch.
> > >
> > > I agree. Maybe we can fix that for raw sockets, want me to
> > > add it to the list? :)
> >
> > So far, I could not find any theoretical solution how to fix this,
>
> What if socket had a LOCKBIND ioctl after which you can not bind it to
> any other device?  Then someone with RAW capability can open the socket,
> bind to device and hand it to you. You can send packets but not
> switch to another device.

Could work, though I was hoping for a solution that does not depend
on a priviledged task at run time to open the socket, as you have with
persistant tap devices or chardevs like macvtap that can have their
persissions set by udev.