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libxl: Document ~/serial/ correctly
authorIan Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Wed, 4 May 2016 14:17:45 +0000 (15:17 +0100)
committerIan Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Mon, 6 Jun 2016 14:48:36 +0000 (15:48 +0100)
xenstore-paths.markdown talked about ~/device/serial/, but that's not
used.

(It is very wrong for this value, which contains a driver domain
filesystem path, to be in the guest's area of xenstore.  However, it
is only ever created by libxl and ready by xenconsoled.  When it is
created, it inherits the read-only permissions of /local/domain/DOMID.
So there is no security bug.)

This is a followup to XSA-175.

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
docs/misc/xenstore-paths.markdown

index 8c686ec398889098fc47175630079abe6ce506f3..bfa6a798ef9383d787666a8da60e702f6b8fb393 100644 (file)
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ The primary PV console device. Described in [console.txt](console.txt)
 
 A secondary PV console device. Described in [console.txt](console.txt)
 
-#### ~/device/serial/$DEVID/* [HVM]
+#### ~/serial/$DEVID/* [HVM]
 
 An emulated serial device. Described in [console.txt](console.txt)