Kernel default mode is 0600, but distributions change it to group kvm, mode
either 0660 (e.g. Debian) or 0666 (e.g. Fedora). Both approaches have valid
reasons (a stricter mode limits exposure to bugs in the kvm subsystem, a looser
mode makes libvirt and other virtualization mechanisms work out of the box for
unprivileged users over ssh).
In Fedora the qemu package carries the relevant rule, but it's nicer to have it
in systemd, so that the permissions are not dependent on the qemu package being
installed. Use of packaged qemu binaries is not required to make use of
/dev/kvm, e.g. it's possible to use a self-compiled qemu or some alternative.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1431876
To accomodate both approaches, add a rule to set the mode in 50-udev-default.rules,
but allow the mode to be overridden with a --with-dev-kvm-mode configure rule.
The default is 0660, as the (slightly) more secure option.
Very few parts of the systemd source require <math.h> or "libm.so".
Linking libbasic with -lm drags the mathematical library in for all
systemd components, and in turn for all users of systemd libraries.
It's just unneeded.
The emergency.service and rescue.service units have become rather
convoluted. We spawn multiple shells and the help text spans multiple lines
which makes the units hard to read.
Move the logic into a single shell script and call that via ExecStart.
The legacy *.pkla files are not required when running against polkit ≥ 106,
and we want to avoid shipping files in /var if possible (but pkla files
can only be in /etc/ or /var).
Only install the *.pkla files if we detect an old polkit version during
configure. Don't install them if polkit isn't installed during build, as
distributions other than Debian-based ones have moved to the new polkit
long ago.
Fixes#5523
Compiling against the dm-ioctl.h header as provided by the Linux kernel
will embed the DM interface version number. Running an older kernel can
result in an error like this on shutdown:
Could not detach DM dm-11: ioctl mismatch, kernel(4.34.4), user(4.35.4)
Work around this by shipping a local copy of dm-ioctl.h. We need at
least the version from 3.13 for DM_DEFERRED_REMOVE [1], so bump the
requirements in README accordingly.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2c140a246dc0bc085b98eddde978060fcec1080cFixes: #5492
The only functional change is that log_notice("No journal files were found.")
is not printed any more with --quiet. log_error("No journal files were opened
due to insufficient permissions.") is still printed.
I wasn't quite sure where to put this function, but shared/ seems to be the
right place and none of the existing files seem to fit too well.
v2: rename journal_access_check to journal_access_check_and_warn.
As per commit 25e773e "udev: switch to systemd logging functions"
Now log_set_max_level() in udev_new() overwites system wide log level.
Propagate the udev.conf setting to log_set_max_level()
only if udev_new() is called from within udevd or one of its helpers.
Introduce a UDEV_PROPAGATE_LOG macro that we set with -D on
the gcc command line for all udev binaries we build, but not
for any others. The log_set_max_level() call is guarded by an
ifdef check for that macro, so that it only effects the various
udev binaries.
closes: #4525
We have ./configure switches for various parts of non-essential functionality,
let's add one for this new stuff too. Support for environment generators is
not conditional — if you don't want them, just don't install any.
Add support for /etc/environment and document the changes to the user manager
to automatically import environment *.conf files from:
~/.config/environment.d/
/etc/environment.d/
/run/environment.d/
/usr/local/lib/environment.d/
/usr/lib/environment.d/
/etc/environment
Why the strange name: the prefix is necessary to follow our own advice that
environment generators should have numerical prefixes. I also put -d- in the
name because otherwise the name was very easy to mistake with
systemd.environment-generator. This additional letter clarifies that this
on special generator that supports environment.d files.
v2:
- add example files to EXTRA_DIST
v3:
- rework for the new scheme where nothing is written to disk
v4:
- use separate dirs for system and user env generators
Environment file generators are a lot like unit file generators, but not
exactly:
1. environment file generators are run for each manager instance, and their
output is (or at least can be) individualized.
The generators themselves are system-wide, the same for all users.
2. environment file generators are run sequentially, in priority order.
Thus, the lifetime of those files is tied to lifecycle of the manager
instance. Because generators are run sequentially, later generators can use or
modify the output of earlier generators.
Each generator is run with no arguments, and the whole state is stored in the
environment variables. The generator can echo a set of variable assignments to
standard output:
VAR_A=something
VAR_B=something else
This output is parsed, and the next and subsequent generators run with those
updated variables in the environment. After the last generator is done, the
environment that the manager itself exports is updated.
Each generator must return 0, otherwise the output is ignored.
The generators in */user-env-generator are for the user session managers,
including root, and the ones in */system-env-generator are for pid1.
The change:
-/usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service
+/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.resolve1.service
If resolved is disabled, without this, talking to the resolved bus API will
activate it regardless whether it is enabled or not, let's fix that.
automake helpfully sets a few variables for during build. When our executable
is in a directory underneath $(abs_top_builddir), we know that we're in the
build environment $(abs_top_srcdir) contains the sources, and test data is
under $(abs_top_srcdir)/test. This remains true no matter where the build
directory is relative to the source directory. It also works if the test
executable is invoked as ./test-whatever or .libs/test-whatever, since the
relative path is not used at all.
When running from outside of the build directory, we should be running from the
installed location and we can look for ../testdata relative to the location of
the exe file.
Of course, $SYSTEMD_TEST_DATA always overrides this logic.
Only one test case is added, but it is enough to check basic sanity of the
code (single-line and binary fields and trusted fields, allocation and freeing).
Add a new "install-tests" make target that installs our unit test-*
executables and their test data files into /usr/lib/systemd/tests/.
This is useful for packaging the tests to run them with root privileges
or in CI.
Fixes#5257
It is useful to package test-* binaries and run them as root under
autopkgtest or manually on particular machines. They currently have a
built-in hardcoded absolute path to their test data, which does not work
when running the test programs from any other path than the original
build directory.
By default, make the tests look for their data in
<test_exe_directory>/testdata/ so that they can be called from any
directory (provided that the corresponding test data is installed
correctly). As we don't have a fixed static path in the build tree (as
build and source tree are independent), set $TEST_DIR with "make check"
to point to <srcdir>/test/, as we previously did with an automake
variable.
Moe test-resolve's test data from src/resolve/test-data to
test/test-resolve/ to be consistent with test/test-{execute,path}/. This
will make it easier to make the tests relocatable.
ReadOnlyPaths=, ProtectHome=, InaccessiblePaths= and ProtectSystem= are
about restricting access and little more, hence they should be disabled
if PermissionsStartOnly= is used or ExecStart= lines are prefixed with a
"+". Do that.
(Note that we will still create namespaces and stuff, since that's about
a lot more than just permissions. We'll simply disable the effect of
the four options mentioned above, but nothing else mount related.)
This also adds a test for this, to ensure this works as intended.
No documentation updates, as the documentation are already vague enough
to support the new behaviour ("If true, the permission-related execution
options…"). We could clarify this further, but I think we might want to
extend the switches' behaviour a bit more in future, hence leave it at
this for now.
Fixes: #5308
IPv6 Neighbor discovery proxy is the IPv6 equivalent to proxy ARP for IPv4.
It is required when ISPs do not unconditional route IPv6 subnets
to their designated target, but expect neighbor solicitation messages
for every address on a link.
A variable IPv6ProxyNDPAddress= is introduced to the [Network] section,
each representing a IPv6 neighbour proxy entry in the neighbour table.
This adds a generator and a small service that will look for "roothash="
on the kernel command line and use it for setting up a very partition
for the root device.
This provides similar functionality to nspawn's existing --roothash=
switch.
This adds support for a new kernel command line option "systemd.volatile=" that
provides the same functionality that systemd-nspawn's --volatile= switch
provides, but for host systems (i.e. systems booting with a kernel).
It takes the same parameter and has the same effect.
In order to implement systemd.volatile=yes a new service
systemd-volatile-root.service is introduced that only runs in the initrd and
rearranges the root directory as needed to become a tmpfs instance. Note that
systemd.volatile=state is implemented different: it simply generates a
var.mount unit file that is part of the normal boot and has no effect on the
initrd execution.
The way this is implemented ensures that other explicit configuration for /var
can always override the effect of these options. Specifically, the var.mount
unit is generated in the "late" generator directory, so that it only is in
effect if nothing else overrides it.
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek