Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC for-2.3 1/1] block: New command line option --no-format-probing

[Paolo Bonzini]

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On 23/03/2015 18:48, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Why can't libvirt just add ,format=raw instead of leaving out the
>> format key altogether?
> 
> Libvirt DOES add format=raw.  This patch is an extra insurance
> policy to guarantee that libvirt does not have any code paths that
> omit the explicit format (as we have had a couple of CVEs in
> libvirt over the years where that was the case).

And where's the extra insurance policy to guarantee that QEMU does not
have any code paths that ignore the new command line option?

This is really borderline security theater.  Bugs happen, we fix them.
 Even better, Kevin now has implemented a strong mitigation for CVEs
like this, that won't allow guests to transmute a probed raw image
into another format.  There certainly hasn't been enough discussion
for this to get into 2.3.

Paolo
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