We would parse numbers with base prefixes as user identifiers. For example,
"0x2b3bfa0" would be interpreted as UID==45334432 and "01750" would be
interpreted as UID==1000. This parsing was used also in cases where either a
user/group name or number may be specified. This means that names like
0x2b3bfa0 would be ambiguous: they are a valid user name according to our
documented relaxed rules, but they would also be parsed as numeric uids.
This behaviour is definitely not expected by users, since tools generally only
accept decimal numbers (e.g. id, getent passwd), while other tools only accept
user names and thus will interpret such strings as user names without even
attempting to convert them to numbers (su, ssh). So let's follow suit and only
accept numbers in decimal notation. Effectively this means that we will reject
such strings as a username/uid/groupname/gid where strict mode is used, and try
to look up a user/group with such a name in relaxed mode.
Since the function changed is fairly low-level and fairly widely used, this
affects multiple tools: loginctl show-user/enable-linger/disable-linger foo',
the third argument in sysusers.d, fourth and fifth arguments in tmpfiles.d,
etc.
Fixes#15985.
This is a safey net anyway, let's make it fully safe: if the data ends
on an uneven byte, then we need to complete the UTF-16 codepoint first,
before adding the final NUL byte pair. Hence let's suffix with three
NULs, instead of just two.
Tracking down #15931 confused the hell out of me, since running homed in
gdb from the command line worked fine, but doing so as a service failed.
Let's make this more debuggable and check if we live in the host netns
when allocating a new udev monitor.
This is just debug stuff, so that if things don't work, a quick debug
run will reveal what is going on.
That said, while we are at it, also fix unexpected closing of passed in
fd when failing.
Possibly fixes#15220. (There might be another leak. I'm still investigating.)
The leak would occur when the path cache was rebuilt. So in normal circumstances
it wouldn't be too bad, since usually the path cache is not rebuilt too often. But
the case in #15220, where new unit files are created in a loop and started, the leak
occurs once for each unit file:
$ for i in {1..300}; do cp ~/.config/systemd/user/test0001.service ~/.config/systemd/user/test$(printf %04d $i).service; systemctl --user start test$(printf %04d $i).service;done
Let's be more thorough that whenever we build a unit name based on
parameters, that the result is actually a valid user name. If it isn't
fail early.
This should allows us to catch various issues earlier, in particular
when we synthesize mount units from /proc/self/mountinfo: instead of
actually attempting to allocate a mount unit we will fail much earlier
when we build the name to synthesize the unit under. Failing early is a
good thing generally.
And do not use it in the IMPORT{cmdline} udev code. Wherever we expose
direct interfaces to check the kernel cmdline, let's not consult our
systemd-specific EFI variable, but strictly use the actual kernel
variable, because that's what we claim we do. i.e. it's fine to use the
EFI variable for our own settings, but for the generic APIs to the
kernel cmdline we should not use it.
Specifically, this applies to IMPORT{cmdline} and
ConditionKernelCommandLine=. In the latter case we weren#t checking the
EFI variable anyway, hence let's do the same for the udev case, too.
Fixes: #15739
It annoyed me for quite a while that running "journalctl --file=…" on a
file that is not readable failed with a "File not found" error instead
of a permission error. Let's fix that.
We make this work by using the GLOB_NOCHECK flag for glob() which means
that files are not accessible will be returned in the array as they are
instead of being filtered away. This then means that our later attemps
to open the files will fail cleanly with a good error message.
