This has been requested many times before. Let's add it finally.
GPT auto-discovery for /var is a bit more complex than for other
partition types: the other partitions can to some degree be shared
between multiple OS installations on the same disk (think: swap, /home,
/srv). However, /var is inherently something bound to an installation,
i.e. specific to its identity, or actually *is* its identity, and hence
something that cannot be shared.
To deal with this this new code is particularly careful when it comes to
/var: it will not mount things blindly, but insist that the UUID of the
partition matches a hashed version of the machine-id of the
installation, so that each installation has a very specific /var
associated with it, and would never use any other. (We actually use
HMAC-SHA256 on the GPT partition type for /var, keyed by the machine-id,
since machine-id is something we want to keep somewhat private).
Setting the right UUID for installations takes extra care. To make
things a bit simpler to set up, we avoid this safety check for nspawn
and RootImage= in unit files, under the assumption that such container
and service images unlikely will have multiple installations on them.
The check is hence only required when booting full machines, i.e. in
in systemd-gpt-auto-generator.
To help with putting together images for full machines, PR #14368
introduces a repartition tool that can automatically fill in correctly
calculated UUIDs on first boot if images have the var partition UUID
initialized to all zeroes. With that in place systems can be put
together in a way that on first boot the machine ID is determined and
the partition table automatically adjusted to have the /var partition
with the right UUID.
To support ProtectHome=y in a user namespace (which mounts the inaccessible
nodes), the nodes need to be accessible by the user. Create these paths and
devices in the user runtime directory so they can be used later if needed.
The commit:
a3fc6b55ac nspawn: mask out CAP_NET_ADMIN again if settings file turns off private networking
turned off the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability whenever no private networking
feature was enabled. This broke configurations where the CAP_NET_ADMIN
capability was explicitly requested in the configuration.
Changing the order of evalution here to allow the Capability= setting
to overrule this implicit setting:
Order of evaluation:
1. if no private network setting is enabled, CAP_NET_ADMIN is removed
2. if a private network setting is enabled, CAP_NET_ADMIN is added
3. the settings of Capability= are added
4. the settings of DropCapability= are removed
This allows the fix for #11755 to be retained and to still allow the
admin to specify CAP_NET_ADMIN as additional capability.
Fixes: a3fc6b55acFixes: #13995
Initially I thought this is a good idea, but when reviewing a different PR
(https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/13862#discussion_r340604313) I changed
my mind about this. At some point we probably should start warning about the
old option name, and yet later remove it. But it'll make it easier for people
to transition to the new option name if there's a period of support for both
names without any fuss. There's nothing particularly wrong about the old name,
and there is no support cost.
Fixes#13919 (by avoiding the issue completely).
It's user-facing, parsed from the command line and we typically mangle
in these cases, let's do so here too. (In particular as the identical
switch for systemd-run already does it.)
We already shut the machine down ourselves (and pid1 will also do
cleanup for us after we exit if anything was left behind). No need for
systemd-machined to try to stop the unit too.
(This calls the new machined method. If we are running against an older
machined, we will not deregister the machine. If we are simply exiting,
machined should notice that the unit is gone on its own. If we are restarting,
we will fail to register the machine after restart and fail. But this case
was already broken, because machined would create a stop job, breaking the
restart. So not doing anything with old machined should not make anything
more broken than it already is.)
Fixes#13766.
chase_symlinks() would return negative on error, and either a non-negative status
or a non-negative fd when CHASE_OPEN was given. This made the interface quite
complicated, because dependning on the flags used, we would get two different
"types" of return object. Coverity was always confused by this, and flagged
every use of chase_symlinks() without CHASE_OPEN as a resource leak (because it
would this that an fd is returned). This patch uses a saparate output parameter,
so there is no confusion.
(I think it is OK to have functions which return either an error or an fd. It's
only returning *either* an fd or a non-fd that is confusing.)
We should never have used an unprefixed environment variable name.
All other systemd-nspawn variables have the "SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_" prefix,
and all other systemd variables have the "SYSTEMD_" prefix.
The new variable name takes precedence, but we fall back to checking the
old one. If only the old one is found, a warning is emitted.
In addition, SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_UNIFIED_HIERARCHY="" is accepted as an override
to avoid looking for the old variable name.
We have a variable with the same name ($UNIFIED_CGROUP_HIERARCHY) in tests,
which governs both systemd-nspawn and qemu behaviour. It is not renamed.
We would parse the environment twice (to re-apply settings after reading
config from disk), but we would not check the return code first time.
This means that for some settings we would ignore invalid values, while
for others, we'd fail at some point.
Let's just consistently fail. Those environment variables define important
aspects of behaviour, and it is better for the user if we ignore invalid
values. (Unknown settings are still ignored, so forward compatibility is
maintained.)
This avoid the use of the global variable.
Also rename cgroup_unified_update() to cgroup_unified_cached() and
cgroup_unified_flush() to cgroup_unified() to better reflect their new roles.
If execve failed, we would die in safe_close(), because master was already
closed by fdset_close_others() on line 3123. IIUC, we don't need to keep the
fd open after sending it, so let's just close it immediately.
Reproducer:
sudo build/systemd-nspawn -M rawhide fooooooo
Fixup for 3acc84ebd9.
prefix_root() is equivalent to path_join() in almost all ways, hence
let's remove it.
There are subtle differences though: prefix_root() will try shorten
multiple "/" before and after the prefix. path_join() doesn't do that.
This means prefix_root() might return a string shorter than both its
inputs combined, while path_join() never does that. I like the
path_join() semantics better, hence I think dropping prefix_root() is
totally OK. In the end the strings generated by both functon should
always be identical in terms of path_equal() if not streq().
This leaves prefix_roota() in place. Ideally we'd have path_joina(), but
I don't think we can reasonably implement that as a macro. or maybe we
can? (if so, sounds like something for a later PR)
Also add in a few missing OOM checks
The OCI changes in #9762 broke a use case in which we use nspawn from
inside a container that has dropped capabilities from the bounding set
that nspawn expected to retain. In an attempt to keep OCI compliance
and support our use case, I made hard failing on setting capabilities
not in the bounding set optional (hard fail if using OCI and log only
if using nspawn cmdline).
Fixes#12539
The console tty is now allocated from within the container so it's not
necessary anymore to allocate it from the host and bind mount the pty slave
into the container. The pty master is sent to the host.
/dev/console is now a symlink pointing to the pty slave.
This might also be less confusing for applications running inside the container
and the overall result looks cleaner (we don't need to apply manually the
passed selinux context, if any, to the allocated pty for instance).
Lennart Poettering