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[Xen-devel] execve() in reboot.c ?

To: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] execve() in reboot.c ?
From: aq <aquynh@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:53:15 +0900
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Hello,

Domain kernel has arch/xen/kernel/reboot.c, which executes shutdown
and halt on request. But one problem is that we have the path and
command options fixed in the kernel, like this:


    static char *restart_argv[]  = { "/sbin/shutdown", "-r", "now", NULL };
    static char *poweroff_argv[] = { "/sbin/halt",     "-p",        NULL };


That is kind of violating the rule: kernel should never enforce the
policy to the user. We can see the problem if for example domU uses
busybox instead of sysvinit: busybox doesnt support "halt -p", so "xm
shutdown" cannot shutdown the domU.


Should we care enough to fix this problem?


regards,
aq

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