Since commit 883eb9be98, vconsole-setup might be
called again to operate on dummy console where font operations are not
supported but where it's still important to have the correct keymap set [0][1].
vconsole-setup is mainly called by udev but can also be run via a dependency of
an early service. Both cases might end up calling vconsole-setup on the dummy
console.
The first case can happen during early boot even on systems that use (instead
of the dummy console) a "simple" video console driver supporting font
operations (such as vgacon) until a more specific driver (such as i915) takes
the console over. While this is happening vgacon is deactivated and temporarly
replaced by the dummy console [2].
There are also other cases where systemd-vconsole-setup might be called on
dummy console especially during (very) early boot. Indeed
systemd-vconsole-setup.service might be pulled in by early interactive services
such as 'dracut-cmdline-ask.service` which is run before udev.
If that happens on platforms with no grapical HWs (such as embedded ARM) or
with dummy console initially installed until a driver takes over (like Xen and
xen-fbfront) then setting font will fail.
Therefore this patch downgrades the log message emitted when setting font fails
to LOG_DEBUG and when font operations is not implemented like it's the case for
the dummy console.
Fixes: #16406.
[0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/10826
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1652473
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/vga/vgaarb.c?h=v5.7#n204
Switching to K_UNICODE from other than L_XLATE can make the keyboard
unusable and possibly leak keypresses from X.
BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1803993
If the terminal is in graphical mode, the kernel will refuse to copy the fonts
and will return -EINVAL.
Also having the graphical mode in effect probably indicates that the terminal
is in used by another application and we shouldn't interfer in such cases.
Similar to the previous commit: in many cases no further fd processing
needs to be done in forked of children before execve() or any of its
flavours are called. In those case we can use FORK_RLIMIT_NOFILE_SAFE
instead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is similar to TAKE_PTR() but operates on file descriptors, and thus
assigns -1 to the fd parameter after returning it.
Removes 60 lines from our codebase. Pretty good too I think.
This macro will read a pointer of any type, return it, and set the
pointer to NULL. This is useful as an explicit concept of passing
ownership of a memory area between pointers.
This takes inspiration from Rust:
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.take
and was suggested by Alan Jenkins (@sourcejedi).
It drops ~160 lines of code from our codebase, which makes me like it.
Also, I think it clarifies passing of ownership, and thus helps
readability a bit (at least for the initiated who know the new macro)
This renames wait_for_terminate_and_warn() to
wait_for_terminate_and_check(), and adds a flags parameter, that
controls how much to log: there's one flag that means we log about
abnormal stuff, and another one that controls whether we log about
non-zero exit codes. Finally, there's a shortcut flag value for logging
in both cases, as that's what we usually use.
All callers are accordingly updated. At three occasions duplicate logging
is removed, i.e. where the old function was called but logged in the
caller, too.
This adds a new safe_fork() wrapper around fork() and makes use of it
everywhere. The new wrapper does a couple of things we previously did
manually and separately in a safer, more correct and automatic way:
1. Optionally resets signal handlers/mask in the child
2. Sets a name on all processes we fork off right after forking off (and
the patch assigns useful names for all processes we fork off now,
following a systematic naming scheme: always enclosed in () – in order
to indicate that these are not proper, exec()ed processes, but only
forked off children, and if the process is long-running with only our
own code, without execve()'ing something else, it gets am "sd-" prefix.)
3. Optionally closes all file descriptors in the child
4. Optionally sets a PR_SET_DEATHSIG to SIGTERM in the child, in a safe
way so that the parent dying before this happens being handled
safely.
5. Optionally reopens the logs
6. Optionally connects stdin/stdout/stderr to /dev/null
7. Debug logs about the forked off processes.
Our CODING_STYLE suggests not comparing with NULL, but relying on C's
downgrade-to-bool feature for that. Fix up some code to match these
guidelines. (This is not comprehensive, the coccinelle output for this
is unfortunately kinda borked)
When vconsole-setup is called without arguments, search for a usable
console instead of using /dev/tty0.
/dev/tty0 — pointing to the current active console — it not necessarily
usable and in such case vconsole-setup would exit with failure. In particular
when systemd-vconsole-setup.service was restarted from within an X
session, it always failed.
If the function searching for a usable source terminal fails, the first
encountered error is returned to the caller.
Closes#5367.
Additional changes:
- true/false functions with 'is_ prefix are renamed to functions with
'verify_vc_' prefix and return 0 on success and negative error on
failure
- O_NOCTTY flag is used when opening terminals
On a machine without a VGA console, /dev/tty{0,1,…} exist, so
systemd-vconsole-setup is started, but all setfont operations fail.
setfont has a bunch of return codes for different failure modes. It uses
EX_OSERR when the communication with the kernel using ioctls fails. This isn't
too specific, but at least it's only used this general class of errors. Let's
swallow the error in this case to avoid systemd-vconsole-setup.service failing
on cloud vms.
On a machine from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1272686#c4:
$ build/systemd-vconsole-setup
setfont: putfont: 512,8x16: failed: -1
putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument
/usr/bin/setfont failed with error code 71.
Setting fonts failed with a "system error", ignoring.
$ SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug build/systemd-vconsole-setup
Found container virtualization none.
Sysfs UTF-8 flag enabled
UTF-8 kbdmode enabled on /dev/tty0
Executing "/usr/bin/setfont -C /dev/tty0 eurlatgr"...
setfont: putfont: 512,8x16: failed: -1
putfont: PIO_FONT: Invalid argument
/usr/bin/setfont failed with error code 71.
Executing "/usr/bin/loadkeys -q -C /dev/tty0 -u us"...
/usr/bin/loadkeys succeeded.
Setting fonts failed with a "system error", ignoring.
$ lspci | grep -i vga
$ ls /dev/tty?
/dev/tty0 /dev/tty2 /dev/tty4 /dev/tty6 /dev/tty8
/dev/tty1 /dev/tty3 /dev/tty5 /dev/tty7 /dev/tty9
If we have a better test for /dev/tty? being connected to something that has a
font, we could avoid running setfont at all… ATM, I'm not aware of a simple
test like that.
This makes it quite a bit easier to see what failed.
strv_join is called inline in log_debug so that it is under the conditional
that kills the whole thing if debugging is disabled.
is_allocated() and is_allocated_byfd():
Checks if the console is allocated by its index (first function) or
its open descriptor (second function).
is_settable():
Checks if the console is in xlate or unicode mode, so we can adjust
is safely without interfering with X.
Add toggle_utf8() and toggle_utf8_sysfs() and use them in place of old
enable/disable functions. toggle_utf8() also adds iutf8 setting and is
set up to be called per-console (in subsequent patches).
Note, that old disable_utf8() didn't bother checking if it was ok
to change the kbdmode.