Let's simplify things and drop the logic that /var/lib/machines is setup
as auto-growing btrfs loopback file /var/lib/machines.raw.
THis was done in order to make quota available for machine management,
but quite frankly never really worked properly, as we couldn't grow the
file system in sync with its use properly. Moreover philosophically it's
problematic overriding the admin's choice of file system like this.
Let's hence drop this, and simplify things. Deleting code is a good
feeling.
Now that regular file systems provide project quota we could probably
add per-machine quota support based on that, hence the btrfs quota
argument is not that interesting anymore (though btrfs quota is a bit
more powerful as it allows recursive quota, i.e. that the machine pool
gets an overall quota in addition to per-machine quota).
Fixes: #2728
This is also supposed to be preparation for doing #10234 eventually,
where a very similar operation is requested: instead of importing a tree
to /var/lib/machines it would need to be imported into
/var/lib/portables/.
Ideally, coccinelle would strip unnecessary braces too. But I do not see any
option in coccinelle for this, so instead, I edited the patch text using
search&replace to remove the braces. Unfortunately this is not fully automatic,
in particular it didn't deal well with if-else-if-else blocks and ifdefs, so
there is an increased likelikehood be some bugs in such spots.
I also removed part of the patch that coccinelle generated for udev, where we
returns -1 for failure. This should be fixed independently.
This way, we can extend the macro a bit with stuff pulled in from other
headers without this affecting everything which pulls in macro.h, which
is one of our most basic headers.
This is just refactoring, no change in behaviour, in prepartion for
later changes.
Now that we don't (mis-)use the env file parser to parse kernel command
lines there's no need anymore to override the used newline character
set. Let's hence drop the argument and just "\n\r" always. This nicely
simplifies our code.
Pretty much everything uses just the first argument, and this doesn't make this
common pattern more complicated, but makes it simpler to pass multiple options.
This is required for /proc/self/fd/xyz to work, but that's what we need
to convert the O_PATH fd returned by chase_symlinks() back to a regular
file fd. Hence, let's do the joining of the namespaces fully and
correctly, by doing fork()+setns()+fork() with the PID and fs
namespaces.
This makes use of the new namespace_fork() helper we just added.
Fixes: #10549
When a machine scope is registered by machined, let's add a reference to
it, and change the GC mode so that the unit is cleaned up as soon as
machined drops the reference, regardless of the fail state.
Fixes: #2809
Let's be more careful with what we serialize: let's ensure we never
serialize strings that are longer than LONG_LINE_MAX, so that we know we
can read them back with read_line(…, LONG_LINE_MAX, …) safely.
In order to implement this all serialization functions are move to
serialize.[ch], and internally will do line size checks. We'd rather
skip a serialization line (with a loud warning) than write an overly
long line out. Of course, this is just a second level protection, after
all the data we serialize shouldn't be this long in the first place.
While we are at it also clean up logging: while serializing make sure to
always log about errors immediately. Also, (void)ify all calls we don't
expect errors in (or catch errors as part of the general
fflush_and_check() at the end.
This makes use of rlimit_nofile_bump() in all tools that access the
journal. In some cases this replaces older code to achieve this, and
others we add it in where it was missing.
Also, while we are at it, beef it up, by adding json-seq support (i.e.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7464). This is particularly useful in
conjunction with jq's --seq switch.
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.
This commit adds the stop alias to the output of `machinectl --help`.
In the past we only mention this in the man page. It's nice to mention
this in the output `machinectl --help` as well.
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.
Let's shorten the code a bit, and unify how we forward executoin from
the machine functions that take a machine name as first argument to the
matching functions on the machine object.
Let's rework error handling a bit in image_find() and friends: when we
can't find an image, return -ENOENT rather than 0. That's better as
before we violated the usual rule in our codebase that return parameters
are initialized when the return value is >= 0 and otherwise not touched.
This also makes enumeration and validation a bit more strict: we'll only
accept ".raw" as suffix for regular files, and filter out this suffix
handling on directories/subvolumes, where it makes no sense.
This distuingishes two different classes of images, one for the purpose
of npsawn-like containers, i.e. "machines", and one for portable
services.
This distinction is mostly about search paths. We look for machine
images in /var/lib/machines and for portable images in
/var/lib/portables.
Most our other parsing functions do this, let's do this here too,
internally we accept that anyway. Also, the closely related
load_env_file() and load_env_file_pairs() also do this, so let's be
systematic.
Lennart Poettering