Comment 1 for bug 807893

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Stefan Hajnoczi (stefanha) wrote : [PATCH] os-posix: set groups properly for -runas

Andrew Griffiths reports that -runas does not set supplementary group
IDs. This means that gid 0 (root) is not dropped when switching to an
unprivileged user.

Add an initgroups(3) call to use the -runas user's /etc/groups
membership to update the supplementary group IDs.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <email address hidden>
---
Note this needs compile testing on various POSIX host platforms. Tested on
Linux. Should work on BSD and Solaris. initgroups(3) is SVr4/BSD but not in
POSIX.

 os-posix.c | 6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/os-posix.c b/os-posix.c
index 7dfb278..6f8d488 100644
--- a/os-posix.c
+++ b/os-posix.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 /*needed for MAP_POPULATE before including qemu-options.h */
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <pwd.h>
+#include <grp.h>
 #include <libgen.h>

 /* Needed early for CONFIG_BSD etc. */
@@ -199,6 +200,11 @@ static void change_process_uid(void)
             fprintf(stderr, "Failed to setgid(%d)\n", user_pwd->pw_gid);
             exit(1);
         }
+ if (initgroups(user_pwd->pw_name, user_pwd->pw_gid) < 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "Failed to initgroups(\"%s\", %d)\n",
+ user_pwd->pw_name, user_pwd->pw_gid);
+ exit(1);
+ }
         if (setuid(user_pwd->pw_uid) < 0) {
             fprintf(stderr, "Failed to setuid(%d)\n", user_pwd->pw_uid);
             exit(1);
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