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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2017-08-22 06:50:18 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2017-09-22 21:07:24 +0200
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scsi: build qemu-pr-helper
Introduce a privileged helper to run persistent reservation commands.
This lets virtual machines send persistent reservations without using
CAP_SYS_RAWIO or out-of-tree patches.  The helper uses Unix permissions
and SCM_RIGHTS to restrict access to processes that can access its socket
and prove that they have an open file descriptor for a raw SCSI device.

The next patch will also correct the usage of persistent reservations
with multipath devices.

It would also be possible to support for Linux's IOC_PR_* ioctls in
the future, to support NVMe devices.  For now, however, only SCSI is
supported.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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