hw/9pfs: Add new proxy filesystem driver

Add new proxy filesystem driver to add root privilege to qemu process.
It needs a helper process to be started by root user.

Following command line can be used to utilize proxy filesystem driver
-virtfs proxy,id=<id>,mount_tag=<tag>,socket_fd=<socket-fd>

Signed-off-by: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.h b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2d60b0ecd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.h
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/*
+ * Virtio 9p Proxy callback
+ *
+ * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2011
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ * M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.  See
+ * the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+#ifndef _QEMU_VIRTIO_9P_PROXY_H
+#define _QEMU_VIRTIO_9P_PROXY_H
+
+#define PROXY_MAX_IO_SZ (64 * 1024)
+
+typedef struct {
+    uint32_t type;
+    uint32_t size;
+} ProxyHeader;
+
+#define PROXY_HDR_SZ (sizeof(ProxyHeader))
+
+#endif