[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fsdev: fix virtfs-proxy-helper cwd

[Greg Kurz]

Since chroot() doesn't change the current directory, it is indeed a good
practice to chdir() to the target directory and then then chroot(), or
to chroot() to the target directory and then chdir("/").

The current code does neither of them actually. Let's go for the latter.

This doesn't fix any security issue since all of this takes place before
the helper begins to process requests.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
---
 fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c b/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
index 54f7ad1c48f0..4c4238f62e53 100644
--- a/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
+++ b/fsdev/virtfs-proxy-helper.c
@@ -1129,14 +1129,14 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
         }
     }
 
-    if (chdir("/") < 0) {
-        do_perror("chdir");
-        goto error;
-    }
     if (chroot(rpath) < 0) {
         do_perror("chroot");
         goto error;
     }
+    if (chdir("/") < 0) {
+        do_perror("chdir");
+        goto error;
+    }
 
     get_version = false;
 #ifdef FS_IOC_GETVERSION