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2017-12-20qemu-pr-helper: miscellaneous fixesPaolo Bonzini
1) Return a generic sense if TEST UNIT READY does not provide one; 2) Fix two mistakes in copying from the spec. Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org Reported-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-10-18qemu-pr-helper: use new libmultipath APIPaolo Bonzini
libmultipath has recently changed its API. The new API supports multi-threaded clients better. Unfortunately there is no backwards-compatibility, so we just switch to the new one. Running QEMU compiled with the new library on the old library will likely crash, while doing the opposite will cause QEMU not to start at all (because udev, get_multipath_config and put_multipath_config are undefined). Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-09-22scsi: add multipath support to qemu-pr-helperPaolo Bonzini
Proper support of persistent reservation for multipath devices requires communication with the multipath daemon, so that the reservation is registered and applied when a path comes up. The device mapper utilities provide a library to do so; this patch makes qemu-pr-helper.c detect multipath devices and, when one is found, delegate the operation to libmpathpersist. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2017-09-22scsi: build qemu-pr-helperPaolo Bonzini
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>