If a source path is prefixed with "+" it is taken relative to the container's
root directory instead of the host. This permits easily establishing bind and
overlay mounts based on data from the container rather than the host.
This also reworks custom_mounts_prepare(), and turns it into two functions: one
custom_mount_check_all() that remains in nspawn.c but purely verifies the
validity of the custom mounts configured. And one called
custom_mount_prepare_all() that actually does the preparation step, sorts the
custom mounts, resolves relative paths, and allocates temporary directories as
necessary.
If --template= is used on an image, then the image might not exist initially.
We can use CHASE_NON_EXISTING to properly lock the image already before it
exists. Let's do so.
Let's remove chase_symlinks_prefix() and instead introduce a flags parameter to
chase_symlinks(), with a flag CHASE_PREFIX_ROOT that exposes the behaviour of
chase_symlinks_prefix().
As suggested in PR #3667.
This PR simply ensures that --template= can be used as alternative to
--directory= when --ephemeral is used, following the logic that for ephemeral
options the source directory is actually a template.
This does not deprecate usage of --directory= with --ephemeral, as I am not
convinced the old logic wouldn't make sense.
Fixes: #3667
This resolves any paths specified on --directory=, --template=, and --image=
before using them. This makes sure nspawn can be used correctly on symlinked
images and directory trees.
Fixes: #2001
Let's use chase_symlinks() everywhere, and stop using GNU
canonicalize_file_name() everywhere. For most cases this should not change
behaviour, however increase exposure of our function to get better tested. Most
importantly in a few cases (most notably nspawn) it can take the correct root
directory into account when chasing symlinks.
Given that other file systems (notably: xfs) support reflinks these days, let's
extend the file system snapshotting logic to fall back to plan copies or
reflinks when full btrfs subvolume snapshots are not available.
This essentially makes "systemd-nspawn --ephemeral" and "systemd-nspawn
--template=" available on non-btrfs subvolumes. Of course, both operations will
still be slower on non-btrfs than on btrfs (simply because reflinking each file
individually in a directory tree is still slower than doing this in one step
for a whole subvolume), but it's probably good enough for many cases, and we
should provide the users with the tools, they have to figure out what's good
for them.
Note that "machinectl clone" already had a fallback like this in place, this
patch generalizes this, and adds similar support to our other cases.
When mountint a loopback image, we need a temporary root directory we can mount
stuff to. Make sure to actually remove it when exiting, so that we don't leave
stuff around in /tmp unnecessarily.
See: #4664
Previously --ephemeral was only supported with container trees in btrfs
subvolumes (i.e. in combination with --directory=). This adds support for
--ephemeral in conjunction with disk images (i.e. --image=) too.
As side effect this fixes that --ephemeral was accepted but ignored when using
-M on a container that turned out to be an image.
Fixes: #4664
This commit adds the possibility to leave /sys, and /proc/sys read-write.
It introduces a new (undocumented) env var SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_API_VFS_WRITABLE
to enable this feature.
If set to "yes", /sys, and /proc/sys will be read-write.
If set to "no", /sys, and /proc/sys will be read-only.
If set to "network" /proc/sys/net will be read-write. This is useful in
use-cases, where systemd-nspawn is used in an external network
namespace.
This adds the possibility to start privileged containers which need more
control over settings in the /proc, and /sys filesystem.
This is also a follow-up on the discussion from
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4018#r76971862 where an
introduction of a simple env var to enable R/W support for those
directories was already discussed.
Since 133 is now used in a few places, add a #define for it.
Also make the status message a bit informative.
Another issue introduced in b006762. The logic was borked, we were supposed
to return 0 to break the loop, and 133 to restart the container, not the other
way around.
But this doesn't seem to work, reboot fails with:
Nov 08 00:41:32 laptop systemd-nspawn[26564]: Failed to register machine: Machine 'fedora-rawhide' already exists
So actually the version before this patch worked better, since 133 > 0 and we'd
at least loop internally.
The file /usr/lib/systemd/resolv.conf can be stale, it does not tell us
whether or not systemd-resolved is running or not.
So check for /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf as well, which is created
at runtime and hence is a better indication.
Commit b006762 inverted the initial exit code which is relevant for --help and
--version without a particular reason. For these special options, parse_argv()
returns 0 so that our main() immediately skips to the end without adjusting
"ret". Otherwise, if an actual container is being started, ret is set on error
in run(), which still provides the "non-zero exit on error" behaviour.
Fixes#4605.
We don't have plural in the name of any other -util files and this
inconsistency trips me up every time I try to type this file name
from memory. "formats-util" is even hard to pronounce.
Let's make sure that our loopback files remain sparse, hence let's set
"discard" as mount option on file systems that support it if the backing device
is a loopback.
036d523641
> vfs: Don't create inodes with a uid or gid unknown to the vfs
It is expected that filesystems can not represent uids and gids from
outside of their user namespace. Keep things simple by not even
trying to create filesystem nodes with non-sense uids and gids.
So, we actually should `reset_uid_gid` early to prevent https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4223#issuecomment-252522955
$ sudo UNIFIED_CGROUP_HIERARCHY=no LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.libs .libs/systemd-nspawn -D /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide -U -b systemd.unit=multi-user.target
Spawning container fedora-rawhide on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide.
Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container.
Child died too early.
Selected user namespace base 1073283072 and range 65536.
Failed to mount to /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd: No such file or directory
Details: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4223#issuecomment-253046519Fixes: #4352
This makes it easier to debug failed nspawn invocations:
Mounting sysfs on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/sys (MS_RDONLY|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV "")...
Mounting tmpfs on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/dev (MS_NOSUID|MS_STRICTATIME "mode=755,uid=1450901504,gid=1450901504")...
Mounting tmpfs on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/dev/shm (MS_NOSUID|MS_NODEV|MS_STRICTATIME "mode=1777,uid=1450901504,gid=1450901504")...
Mounting tmpfs on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/run (MS_NOSUID|MS_NODEV|MS_STRICTATIME "mode=755,uid=1450901504,gid=1450901504")...
Bind-mounting /sys/fs/selinux on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/sys/fs/selinux (MS_BIND "")...
Remounting /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/sys/fs/selinux (MS_RDONLY|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_BIND|MS_REMOUNT "")...
Mounting proc on /proc (MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV "")...
Bind-mounting /proc/sys on /proc/sys (MS_BIND "")...
Remounting /proc/sys (MS_RDONLY|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_BIND|MS_REMOUNT "")...
Bind-mounting /proc/sysrq-trigger on /proc/sysrq-trigger (MS_BIND "")...
Remounting /proc/sysrq-trigger (MS_RDONLY|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_BIND|MS_REMOUNT "")...
Mounting tmpfs on /tmp (MS_STRICTATIME "mode=1777,uid=0,gid=0")...
Mounting tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup (MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_STRICTATIME "mode=755,uid=0,gid=0")...
Mounting cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd (MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV "none,name=systemd,xattr")...
Failed to mount cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd (MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV "none,name=systemd,xattr"): No such file or directory
The documentation says lists "yes", "no", "pick", and numeric arguments.
But parse_boolean was attempted first, so various numeric arguments were
misinterpreted.
In particular, this fixes --private-users=0 to mean the same thing as
--private-users=0:65536.
While at it, use strndupa to avoid some error handling.
Also give a better error for an empty UID range. I think it's likely that
people will use --private-users=0:0 thinking that the argument means UID:GID.
Current systemd version detection routine cannot detect systemd 230,
only systmed >= 231. This means that we'll still use the legacy hierarchy
in some cases where we wouldn't have too. If somebody figures out a nice
way to detect systemd 230 this can be later improved.
systemd-soon-to-be-released-232 is able to deal with the mixed hierarchy.
So make an educated guess, and use the mixed hierarchy in that case.
Tested by running the host with mixed hierarchy (i.e. simply using a recent
kernel with systemd from git), and booting first a container with older systemd,
and then one with a newer systemd.
Fixes#4008.
The new function has 416 lines by itself!
"return log_error_errno" is used to nicely reduce the volume of error
handling code.
A few minor issues are fixed on the way:
- positive value was used as error value (EIO), causing systemd-nspawn
to return success, even though it shouldn't.
- In two places random values were used as error status, when the
actual value was in an unusual place (etc_password_lock, notify_socket).
Those are the only functional changes.
There is another potential issue, which is marked with a comment, and left
unresolved: the container can also return 133 by itself, causing a spurious
reboot.
Previously, if ReadWritePaths= was nested inside a ReadOnlyPaths=
specification, then we'd first recursively apply the ReadOnlyPaths= paths, and
make everything below read-only, only in order to then flip the read-only bit
again for the subdirs listed in ReadWritePaths= below it.
This is not only ugly (as for the dirs in question we first turn on the RO bit,
only to turn it off again immediately after), but also problematic in
containers, where a container manager might have marked a set of dirs read-only
and this code will undo this is ReadWritePaths= is set for any.
With this patch behaviour in this regard is altered: ReadOnlyPaths= will not be
applied to the children listed in ReadWritePaths= in the first place, so that
we do not need to turn off the RO bit for those after all.
This means that ReadWritePaths=/ReadOnlyPaths= may only be used to turn on the
RO bit, but never to turn it off again. Or to say this differently: if some
dirs are marked read-only via some external tool, then ReadWritePaths= will not
undo it.
This is not only the safer option, but also more in-line with what the man page
currently claims:
"Entries (files or directories) listed in ReadWritePaths= are
accessible from within the namespace with the same access rights as
from outside."
To implement this change bind_remount_recursive() gained a new "blacklist"
string list parameter, which when passed may contain subdirs that shall be
excluded from the read-only mounting.
A number of functions are updated to add more debug logging to make this more
digestable.
This commit is a minor tweak after the split of `--share-system`, decoupling the `--boot`
option from IPC namespacing.
Historically there has been a single `--share-system` option for sharing IPC/PID/UTS with the
host, which was incompatible with boot/pid1 mode. After the split, it is now possible to express
the requirements with better granularity.
For reference, this is a followup to #4023 which contains references to previous discussions.
I realized too late that CLONE_NEWIPC is not strictly needed for boot mode.
This commit follows further on the deprecation path for --share-system,
by splitting and gating each share-able namespace behind its own
environment flag.
Currently, systemd uses either the legacy hierarchies or the unified hierarchy.
When the legacy hierarchies are used, systemd uses a named legacy hierarchy
mounted on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd without any kernel controllers for process
management. Due to the shortcomings in the legacy hierarchy, this involves a
lot of workarounds and complexities.
Because the unified hierarchy can be mounted and used in parallel to legacy
hierarchies, there's no reason for systemd to use a legacy hierarchy for
management even if the kernel resource controllers need to be mounted on legacy
hierarchies. It can simply mount the unified hierarchy under
/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd and use it without affecting other legacy hierarchies.
This disables a significant amount of fragile workaround logics and would allow
using features which depend on the unified hierarchy membership such bpf cgroup
v2 membership test. In time, this would also allow deleting the said
complexities.
This patch updates systemd so that it prefers the unified hierarchy for the
systemd cgroup controller hierarchy when legacy hierarchies are used for kernel
resource controllers.
* cg_unified(@controller) is introduced which tests whether the specific
controller in on unified hierarchy and used to choose the unified hierarchy
code path for process and service management when available. Kernel
controller specific operations remain gated by cg_all_unified().
* "systemd.legacy_systemd_cgroup_controller" kernel argument can be used to
force the use of legacy hierarchy for systemd cgroup controller.
* nspawn: By default nspawn uses the same hierarchies as the host. If
UNIFIED_CGROUP_HIERARCHY is set to 1, unified hierarchy is used for all. If
0, legacy for all.
* nspawn: arg_unified_cgroup_hierarchy is made an enum and now encodes one of
three options - legacy, only systemd controller on unified, and unified. The
value is passed into mount setup functions and controls cgroup configuration.
* nspawn: Interpretation of SYSTEMD_CGROUP_CONTROLLER to the actual mount
option is moved to mount_legacy_cgroup_hierarchy() so that it can take an
appropriate action depending on the configuration of the host.
v2: - CGroupUnified enum replaces open coded integer values to indicate the
cgroup operation mode.
- Various style updates.
v3: Fixed a bug in detect_unified_cgroup_hierarchy() introduced during v2.
v4: Restored legacy container on unified host support and fixed another bug in
detect_unified_cgroup_hierarchy().
A following patch will update cgroup handling so that the systemd controller
(/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd) can use the unified hierarchy even if the kernel
resource controllers are on the legacy hierarchies. This would require
distinguishing whether all controllers are on cgroup v2 or only the systemd
controller is. In preparation, this patch renames cg_unified() to
cg_all_unified().
This patch doesn't cause any functional changes.
This removes the --share-system switch: from the documentation, the --help text
as well as the command line parsing. It's an ugly option, given that it kinda
contradicts the whole concept of PID namespaces that nspawn implements. Since
it's barely ever used, let's just deprecate it and remove it from the options.
It might be useful as a debugging option, hence the functionality is kept
around for now, exposed via an undocumented $SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_SHARE_SYSTEM
environment variable.
This has the benefit that the container can follow the host's DNS server
changes without us having to constantly update the container's resolv.conf
settings.
With this change we'll no longer write to /etc/machine-id from nspawn, as that
breaks the --volatile= operation, as it ensures the image is never considered
in "first boot", since that's bound to the pre-existance of /etc/machine-id.
The new logic works like this:
- If /etc/machine-id already exists in the container, it is read by nspawn and
exposed in "machinectl status" and friends.
- If the file doesn't exist yet, but --uuid= is passed on the nspawn cmdline,
this UUID is passed in $container_uuid to PID 1, and PID 1 is then expected
to persist this to /etc/machine-id for future boots (which systemd already
does).
- If the file doesn#t exist yet, and no --uuid= is passed a random UUID is
generated and passed via $container_uuid.
The result is that /etc/machine-id is never initialized by nspawn itself, thus
unbreaking the volatile mode. However still the machine ID configured in the
machine always matches nspawn's and thus machined's idea of it.
Fixes: #3611
We currently have code to read and write files containing UUIDs at various
places. Unify this in id128-util.[ch], and move some other stuff there too.
The new files are located in src/libsystemd/sd-id128/ (instead of src/shared/),
because they are actually the backend of sd_id128_get_machine() and
sd_id128_get_boot().
In follow-up patches we can use this reduce the code in nspawn and
machine-id-setup by adopted the common implementation.
Matching the behaviour of gpt-auto-generator, if we find an ESP while
dissecting a container image, mount it to /efi or /boot if those dirs exist and
are empty.
This should enable us to run "bootctl" inside a container and do the right
thing.
Normally we make all of /proc/sys read-only in a container, but if we do have
netns enabled we can make /proc/sys/net writable, as things are virtualized
then.
(NOTE: Cgroup namespaces work with legacy and unified hierarchies: "This is
completely backward compatible and will be completely invisible to any existing
cgroup users (except for those running inside a cgroup namespace and looking at
/proc/pid/cgroup of tasks outside their namespace.)"
(https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/containers/2016-January/036582.html)
So there is no need to special case unified.)
If cgroup namespaces are supported we skip mount_cgroups() in the
outer_child(). Instead, we unshare(CLONE_NEWCGROUP) in the inner_child() and
only then do we call mount_cgroups().
The clean way to handle cgroup namespaces would be to delegate mounting of
cgroups completely to the init system in the container. However, this would
likely break backward compatibility with the UNIFIED_CGROUP_HIERARCHY flag of
systemd-nspawn. Also no cgroupfs would be mounted whenever the user simply
requests a shell and no init is available to mount cgroups. Hence, we introduce
mount_legacy_cgns_supported(). After calling unshare(CLONE_NEWCGROUP) it parses
/proc/self/cgroup to find the mounted controllers and mounts them inside the
new cgroup namespace. This should preserve backward compatibility with the
UNIFIED_CGROUP_HIERARCHY flag and mount a cgroupfs when no init in the
container is running.
This the patch implements a notificaiton mechanism from the init process
in the container to systemd-nspawn.
The switch --notify-ready=yes configures systemd-nspawn to wait the "READY=1"
message from the init process in the container to send its own to systemd.
--notify-ready=no is equivalent to the previous behavior before this patch,
systemd-nspawn notifies systemd with a "READY=1" message when the container is
created. This notificaiton mechanism uses socket file with path relative to the contanier
"/run/systemd/nspawn/notify". The default values it --notify-ready=no.
It is also possible to configure this mechanism from the .nspawn files using
NotifyReady. This parameter takes the same options of the command line switch.
Before this patch, systemd-nspawn notifies "ready" after the inner child was created,
regardless the status of the service running inside it. Now, with --notify-ready=yes,
systemd-nspawn notifies when the service is ready. This is really useful when
there are dependencies between different contaniers.
Fixes https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/1369
Based on the work from https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/3022
Testing:
Boot a OS inside a container with systemd-nspawn.
Note: modify the commands accordingly with your filesystem.
1. Create a filesystem where you can boot an OS.
2. sudo systemd-nspawn -D ${HOME}/distros/fedora-23/ sh
2.1. Create the unit file /etc/systemd/system/sleep.service inside the container
(You can use the example below)
2.2. systemdctl enable sleep
2.3 exit
3. sudo systemd-run --service-type=notify --unit=notify-test
${HOME}/systemd/systemd-nspawn --notify-ready=yes
-D ${HOME}/distros/fedora-23/ -b
4. In a different shell run "systemctl status notify-test"
When using --notify-ready=yes the service status is "activating" for 20 seconds
before being set to "active (running)". Instead, using --notify-ready=no
the service status is marked "active (running)" quickly, without waiting for
the 20 seconds.
This patch was also test with --private-users=yes, you can test it just adding it
at the end of the command at point 3.
------ sleep.service ------
[Unit]
Description=sleep
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/sleep 20
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
------------ end ------------
The current raw_clone function takes two arguments, the cloning flags and
a pointer to the stack for the cloned child. The raw cloning without
passing a "thread main" function does not make sense if a new stack is
specified, as it returns in both the parent and the child, which will fail
in the child as the stack is virgin. All uses of raw_clone indeed pass NULL
for the stack pointer which indicates that both processes should share the
stack address (so you better don't pass CLONE_VM).
This commit refactors the code to not require the caller to pass the stack
address, as NULL is the only sensible option. It also adds the magic code
needed to make raw_clone work on sparc64, which does not return 0 in %o0
for the child, but indicates the child process by setting %o1 to non-zero.
This refactoring is not plain aesthetic, because non-NULL stack addresses
need to get mangled before being passed to the clone syscall (you have to
apply STACK_BIAS), whereas NULL must not be mangled. Implementing the
conditional mangling of the stack address would needlessly complicate the
code.
raw_clone is moved to a separete header, because the burden of including
the assert machinery and sched.h shouldn't be applied to every user of
missing_syscalls.h
Split seccomp into nspawn-seccomp.[ch]. Currently there are no changes,
but this will make it easy in the future to share or use the seccomp logic
from systemd core.
This adds a new concept of network "zones", which are little more than bridge
devices that are automatically managed by nspawn: when the first container
referencing a bridge is started, the bridge device is created, when the last
container referencing it is removed the bridge device is removed again. Besides
this logic --network-zone= is pretty much identical to --network-bridge=.
The usecase for this is to make it easy to run multiple related containers
(think MySQL in one and Apache in another) in a common, named virtual Ethernet
broadcast zone, that only exists as long as one of them is running, and fully
automatically managed otherwise.
* sd-netlink: permit RTM_DELLINK messages with no ifindex
This is useful for removing network interfaces by name.
* nspawn: explicitly remove veth links we created after use
Sometimes the kernel keeps veth links pinned after the namespace they have been
joined to died. Let's hence explicitly remove veth links after use.
Fixes: #2173
Sometimes the kernel keeps veth links pinned after the namespace they have been
joined to died. Let's hence explicitly remove veth links after use.
Fixes: #2173
In order to implement this we change the bool arg_userns into an enum
UserNamespaceMode, which can take one of NO, PICK or FIXED, and replace the
arg_uid_range_pick bool with it.
This adds the new value "pick" to --private-users=. When specified a new
UID/GID range of 65536 users is automatically and randomly allocated from the
host range 0x00080000-0xDFFF0000 and used for the container. The setting
implies --private-users-chown, so that container directory is recursively
chown()ed to the newly allocated UID/GID range, if that's necessary. As an
optimization before picking a randomized UID/GID the UID of the container's
root directory is used as starting point and used if currently not used
otherwise.
To protect against using the same UID/GID range multiple times a few mechanisms
are in place:
- The first and the last UID and GID of the range are checked with getpwuid()
and getgrgid(). If an entry already exists a different range is picked. Note
that by "last" UID the user 65534 is used, as 65535 is the 16bit (uid_t) -1.
- A lock file for the range is taken in /run/systemd/nspawn-uid/. Since the
ranges are taken in a non-overlapping fashion, and always start on 64K
boundaries this allows us to maintain a single lock file for each range that
can be randomly picked. This protects nspawn from picking the same range in
two parallel instances.
- If possible the /etc/passwd lock file is taken while a new range is selected
until the container is up. This means adduser/addgroup should safely avoid
the range as long as nss-mymachines is used, since the allocated range will
then show up in the user database.
The UID/GID range nspawn picks from is compiled in and not configurable at the
moment. That should probably stay that way, since we already provide ways how
users can pick their own ranges manually if they don't like the automatic
logic.
The new --private-users=pick logic makes user namespacing pretty useful now, as
it relieves the user from managing UID/GID ranges.
This adds a new --private-userns-chown switch that may be used in combination
with --private-userns. If it is passed a recursive chmod() operation is run on
the OS tree, fixing all file owner UID/GIDs to the right ranges. This should
make user namespacing pretty workable, as the OS trees don't need to be
prepared manually anymore.
We check /etc/machine-id of the container and if it is already populated
we use value from there, possibly ignoring value of --uuid option from
the command line. When dealing with R/O image we setup transient machine
id.
Once we determined machine id of the container, we use this value for
registration with systemd-machined and we also export it via
container_uuid environment variable.
As registration with systemd-machined is done by the main nspawn process
we communicate container machine id established by setup_machine_id from
outer child to the main process by unix domain socket. Similarly to PID
of inner child.
