This is really confusing, let's try to clean this up a bit, in
particular as there are two very similar concepts:
1. The boot loaders, i.e. the category you find systemd-boot, the
Windows and Apple boot loaders in. These may typically be listed in the
firmware's EFI variables.
2. The boot loader entries, as defined by the Boot Loader Spec. In this
category you find the various Linux kernels that are installed, i.e.
the stuff systemd-boot shows on screen. To make things confusing, the
Windows and Apple boot loaders can appear both as boot loaders and as
boot loader entries.
This tries to establish the following nomenclature: "boot loaders" and
"boot loader entries" for these two concepts.
boot_loader_read_conf(), boot_entries_find(), boot_entries_load_config()
all log their errors internally, hence no need to log a second or third
time about the same error when they return.
We already synchronize all files we write individually, as well as the
directories they are stored in. Let's also synchronize the ESP as a
whole after our work, just in case.
This is a bit like the info link in most of GNU's --help texts, but we
don't do info but man pages, and we make them properly clickable on
terminal supporting that, because awesome.
I think it's generally advisable to link up our (brief) --help texts and
our (more comprehensive) man pages a bit, so this should be an easy and
straight-forward way to do it.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary.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.
Let's make use this at various places we call fsync(), to make things
fully reliable, as the kernel devs suggest to first fsync() files and
then fsync() the directories they are located in.
log.h really should only include the bare minimum of other headers, as
it is really pulled into pretty much everything else and already in
itself one of the most basic pieces of code we have.
Let's hence drop inclusion of:
1. sd-id128.h because it's entirely unneeded in current log.h
2. errno.h, dito.
3. sys/signalfd.h which we can replace by a simple struct forward
declaration
4. process-util.h which was needed for getpid_cached() which we now hide
in a funciton log_emergency_level() instead, which nicely abstracts
the details away.
5. sys/socket.h which was needed for struct iovec, but a simple struct
forward declaration suffices for that too.
Ultimately this actually makes our source tree larger (since users of
the functionality above must now include it themselves, log.h won't do
that for them), but I think it helps to untangle our web of includes a
tiny bit.
(Background: I'd like to isolate the generic bits of src/basic/ enough
so that we can do a git submodule import into casync for it)
Followup to previous commit. Suggested by @poettering.
Reindented the `verbs[]` tables to match the apparent previous
whitespace rules (indent to one flag, allow multiple flags to overflow?).
On my system the boot and EFI partitions are protected, hence "bootctl
status" can't find the ESP, and then the tool continues with arg_path ==
NULL, which it really should not. Handle these cases, and simply
suppress all output that needs arg_path.
This renames find_esp() to find_esp_and_warn() and tries to normalize its
behaviour:
1. Change the error that is returned when we can't find the ESP to
ENOKEY (from ENOENT). This way the error code can only mean one
thing: that our search loop didn't find a good candidate.
2. Really log about all errors, except for ENOKEY and EACCES, and
document the letter cases.
3. Normalize parameters to the call: separate out the path parameter in
two: an input path and an output path. That way the memory management
is clear: we will access the input parameter only for reading, and
only write out the output parameter, using malloc() memory.
Before the calling convention were quire surprising for internal API
code, as the path parameter had to be malloc() memory and might and
might not have changed.
4. Rename bootctl's find_esp_warn() to acquire_esp(), and make it a
simple wrapper around find_esp_warn(), that basically just adds the
friendly logging for the ENOKEY case. This rework removes double
logging in a number of error cases, as we no longer log here in
anything but ENOKEY, and leave that entirely to find_esp_warn().
5. find_esp_and_warn() now takes a bool flag parameter
"unprivileged_mode", which disables logging in the EACCES case, and
skips privileged validation of the path. This makes the function less
magic, and doesn't hide this internal silencing automatism from the
caller anymore.
With all that in place "bootctl list" and "bootctl status" work properly
(or as good as they can) when I invoke the tools whithout privileges on
my system where /boot is not world-readable
For files which are vital to boot
1. Avoid opening any window where power loss will zero them out or worse.
I know app developers all coded to the ext3 implementation, but
the only formal documentation we have says we're broken if we actually
rely on it. E.g.
* `man mount`, search for `auto_da_alloc`.
* http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_atomic_change
* https://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/15/dont-fear-the-fsync/
2. If we tell the kernel we're interested in writing them to disk, it will
tell us if that fails. So at minimum, this means we play our part in
notifying the user about errors.
I refactored error-handling in `udevadm-hwdb` a little. It turns out I did
exactly the same as had already been done in the `systemd-hwdb` version,
i.e. commit d702dcd.
When using pkg-config to determine the include flags for blkid the
flags are returned as:
$ pkg-config blkid --cflags
-I/usr/include/blkid -I/usr/include/uuid
We use the <blkid/blkid.h> include which would be correct when using
the default compiler /usr/include header search path. However, when
cross-compiling the blkid.h will not be installed at /usr/include and
highly likely in a temporary system root. It is futher compounded if
the cross-compile packages are split up and the blkid package is not
available in the same sysroot as the compiler.
Regardless of the compilation setup, the correct include path should be
<blkid.h> if using the pkg-config returned CFLAGS.
If the snippet aleady exists, don't do anything, as the file was already
installed then.
(This also reworks the code to create the file atomically)
Fixes: #5396
