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").
Previously, we'd create them from user-runtime-dir@.service. That has
one benefit: since this service runs privileged, we can create the full
set of device nodes. It has one major drawback though: it security-wise
problematic to create files/directories in directories as privileged
user in directories owned by unprivileged users, since they can use
symlinks to redirect what we want to do. As a general rule we hence
avoid this logic: only unpriv code should populate unpriv directories.
Hence, let's move this code to an appropriate place in the service
manager. This means we lose the inaccessible block device node, but
since there's already a fallback in place, this shouldn't be too bad.
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.
According to the docs, and to the
org.freedesktop.login1.get-reboot-to-boot-loader-menu code, the
(oneshot) boot-loader-menu timeout should be stored in
/run/systemd/reboot-to-boot-loader-menu, but the set method was storing it
in /run/systemd/reboot-to-loader-menu.
This commit fixes this. Note that the fixed name also is a better match
for the dbus call names and matches the related
/run/systemd/reboot-to-boot-loader-entry structure, so fixing the set code,
rather then the get code + docs seems like the right thing to do here.
With this we are now caching all EFI variables that we expose as
property in logind. Thus a client invoking GetAllProperties() should
only trgger a single read of each variable, but never repeated ones.
Obsoletes: #16190Fixes: #14828
The data from this EFI variable is exposed as dbus property, and gdbus
clients are happy to issue GetAllProperties() as if it was free. Hence
make sure it's actually free and cache LoaderConfigTimeoutOneShot, since
it's easy.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-knodel-terminology-02https://lwn.net/Articles/823224/
This gets rid of most but not occasions of these loaded terms:
1. scsi_id and friends are something that is supposed to be removed from
our tree (see #7594)
2. The test suite defines an API used by the ubuntu CI. We can remove
this too later, but this needs to be done in sync with the ubuntu CI.
3. In some cases the terms are part of APIs we call or where we expose
concepts the kernel names the way it names them. (In particular all
remaining uses of the word "slave" in our codebase are like this,
it's used by the POSIX PTY layer, by the network subsystem, the mount
API and the block device subsystem). Getting rid of the term in these
contexts would mean doing some major fixes of the kernel ABI first.
Regarding the replacements: when whitelist/blacklist is used as noun we
replace with with allow list/deny list, and when used as verb with
allow-list/deny-list.
Presently, CLI utilities such as systemctl will check whether they have a tty
attached or not to decide whether to parse /proc/cmdline or EFI variable
SystemdOptions looking for systemd.log_* entries.
But this check will be misleading if these tools are being launched by a
daemon, such as a monitoring daemon or automation service that runs in
background.
Make log handling of CLI tools uniform by never checking /proc/cmdline or EFI
variables to determine the logging level.
Furthermore, introduce a new log_setup_cli() shortcut to set up common options
used by most command-line utilities.
Patch contains a coccinelle script, but it only works in some cases. Many
parts were converted by hand.
Note: I did not fix errors in return value handing. This will be done separate
to keep the patch comprehensible. No functional change is intended in this
patch.
This is a follow-up for 9f83091e3c.
Instead of reading the mtime off the configuration files after reading,
let's do so before reading, but with the fd we read the data from. This
is not only cleaner (as it allows us to save one stat()), but also has
the benefit that we'll detect changes that happen while we read the
files.
This also reworks unit file drop-ins to use the common code for
determining drop-in mtime, instead of reading system clock for that.
Let's make sure we always apply the process properties from the user
record, in all our three successful paths:
1. when we register a regular session
2. when we run for the systemd --user session
3. when we have no logind (but might still have complex user records
from elsewhere) and thus exit early
Since acquiring user records involves plenty of IPC we try to cache user
records in the PAM context between our various hooks. Previously we'd
just cache whatever we acquired, and use it from the on, forever until
the context is destroyed.
This is problematic however, since some programs (notably sudo) use the
same PAM context for multiple different operations. Specifically, sudo
first authenticates the originating user before creating a session for
the destination user, all with the same PAM context. Thankfully, there
was a safety check for this case in place that re-validated that the
cached user record actually matched our current idea of the user to
operate on, but this just meant the hook would fail entirely.
Let's rework this: let's key the cache by the user name, so that we do
not confused by the changing of the user name during the context's
lifecycle and always, strictly use the cached user record of the user we
operate on.
Essentially this just means we now include the user name in the PAM data
field.
Secondly, this gets rid of the extra PAM data field that indicates
whether a user record is from homed or something else. To simplify
things we instead just cache the user record twice: once for consumption
by pam_systemd_home (which only wants homed records) and once shared by
pam_systemd and pam_systemd_home (and whoever else wants it). The cache
entries simply have different field names.