Similarly to "setup" vs. "set up", "fallback" is a noun, and "fall back"
is the verb. (This is pretty clear when we construct a sentence in the
present continous: "we are falling back" not "we are fallbacking").
Let's make /run/host the sole place we pass stuff from host to container
in and place the "inaccessible" nodes in /run/host too.
In contrast to the previous two commits this is a minor compat break, but
not a relevant one I think. Previously the container manager would place
these nodes in /run/systemd/inaccessible/ and that's where PID 1 in the
container would try to add them too when missing. Container manager and
PID 1 in the container would thus manage the same dir together.
With this change the container manager now passes an immutable directory
to the container and leaves /run/systemd entirely untouched, and managed
exclusively by PID 1 inside the container, which is nice to have clear
separation on who manages what.
In order to make sure systemd then usses the /run/host/inaccesible/
nodes this commit changes PID 1 to look for that dir and if it exists
will symlink it to /run/systemd/inaccessible.
Now, this will work fine if new nspawn and new pid 1 in the container
work together. as then the symlink is created and the difference between
the two dirs won't matter.
For the case where an old nspawn invokes a new PID 1: in this case
things work as they always worked: the dir is managed together.
For the case where different container manager invokes a new PID 1: in
this case the nodes aren't typically passed in, and PID 1 in the
container will try to create them and will likely fail partially (though
gracefully) when trying to create char/block device nodes. THis is fine
though as there are fallbacks in place for that case.
For the case where a new nspawn invokes an old PID1: this is were the
(minor) incompatibily happens: in this case new nspawn will place the
nodes in the /run/host/inaccessible/ subdir, but the PID 1 in the
container won't look for them there. Since the nodes are also not
pre-created in /run/systed/inaccessible/ PID 1 will try to create them
there as if a different container manager sets them up. This is of
course not sexy, but is not a total loss, since as mentioned fallbacks
are in place anyway. Hence I think it's OK to accept this minor
incompatibility.
Currently systemd-user-runtime-dir does not create the files in
/run/user/$UID/systemd/inaccessible with the default SELinux label.
The user and role part of these labels should be based on the user
related to $UID and not based on the process context of
systemd-user-runtime-dir.
Since v246-rc1 (9664be199a) /run/user/$UID/systemd is also created by
systemd-user-runtime-dir and should also be created with the default
SELinux context.
Let's make sure $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for the user instance and /run for the
system instance is always organized the same way: the "inaccessible"
device nodes should be placed in a subdir of either called "systemd" and
a subdir of that called "inaccessible".
This way we can emphasize the common behaviour, and only differ where
really necessary.
Follow-up for #13823
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.
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
Let's generalize this, so that we can use this in nspawn later on, which
is pretty useful as we need to be able to mask files from the inner
child of nspawn too, where the host's /run/systemd/inaccessible
directory is not visible anymore. Moreover, if nspawn can create these
nodes on its own before the payload this means the payload can run with
fewer privileges.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
This patch removes includes that are not used. The removals were found with
include-what-you-use which checks if any of the symbols from a header is
in use.
Similar to PrivateNetwork=, PrivateTmp= introduce PrivateDevices= that
sets up a private /dev with only the API pseudo-devices like /dev/null,
/dev/zero, /dev/random, but not any physical devices in them.
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek