libxl: handle read-only drives with qemu-xen

The current libxl code doesn't deal with read-only drives at all.

Upstream QEMU and qemu-xen only support read-only cdrom drives: make
sure to specify "readonly=on" for cdrom drives and return error in case
the user requested a non-cdrom read-only drive.

This is XSA-142, discovered by Lin Liu
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257893).

Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
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Stefano Stabellini authored and Ian Campbell committed 2015-09-21 12:30:49 +01:00
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@@ -1110,13 +1110,18 @@ static int libxl__build_device_model_args_new(libxl__gc *gc,
if (disks[i].is_cdrom) {
if (disks[i].format == LIBXL_DISK_FORMAT_EMPTY)
drive = libxl__sprintf
(gc, "if=ide,index=%d,media=cdrom,cache=writeback,id=ide-%i",
disk, dev_number);
(gc, "if=ide,index=%d,readonly=%s,media=cdrom,cache=writeback,id=ide-%i",
disk, disks[i].readwrite ? "off" : "on", dev_number);
else
drive = libxl__sprintf
(gc, "file=%s,if=ide,index=%d,media=cdrom,format=%s,cache=writeback,id=ide-%i",
disks[i].pdev_path, disk, format, dev_number);
(gc, "file=%s,if=ide,index=%d,readonly=%s,media=cdrom,format=%s,cache=writeback,id=ide-%i",
disks[i].pdev_path, disk, disks[i].readwrite ? "off" : "on", format, dev_number);
} else {
if (!disks[i].readwrite) {
LIBXL__LOG(ctx, LIBXL__LOG_ERROR, "qemu-xen doesn't support read-only disk drivers");
return ERROR_INVAL;
}
if (disks[i].format == LIBXL_DISK_FORMAT_EMPTY) {
LIBXL__LOG(ctx, LIBXL__LOG_WARNING, "cannot support"
" empty disk format for %s", disks[i].vdev);
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