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
'continue' is a fancy no-op here – it only skips through the inner loop,
not the outer one, so entries already in BootOrder get printed twice.
This partially reverts f939cff715 "bootctl: various coding style
updates".
We already have tolower() calls there, hence let's unify this at one place.
Also, update the code to only use ASCII operations, so that we don't end up
being locale dependant.
This rearranges bootctl a bit, so that it uses the usual verbs parsing
routines, and automatically searches the ESP in /boot, /efi or /boot/efi, thus
increasing compatibility with mainstream distros that insist on /boot/efi.
This also adds minimal support for running bootctl in a container environment:
when run inside a container verification of the ESP via raw block device
access, trusting the container manager to mount the ESP correctly. Moreover,
EFI variables are not accessed when running in the container.
If the ESP is not mounted with "iocharset=ascii", but with "iocharset=utf8"
(which is for example the default in Debian), the file system becomes case
sensitive. This means that a file created as "FooBarBaz" cannot be accessed as
"foobarbaz" since those are then considered different files.
Moreover, a file created as "FooBar" can then also not be accessed as "foobar",
and it also prevents such a file from being created, as both would use the same
8.3 short name "FOOBAR".
Even though the UEFI specification [0] does give the canonical spelling for
the files mentioned above, not all implementations completely conform to that,
so it's possible that those files would already exist, but with a different
spelling, causing subtle bugs when scanning or modifying the ESP.
While the proper fix would of course be that everybody conformed to the
standard, we can work around this problem by just referencing the files by
their 8.3 short names, i.e. using upper case.
Fixes: #3740
[0] <http://www.uefi.org/specifications>, version 2.6, section 3.5.1.1
That function doesn't draw anything on it's own, just returns a string, which
sometimes is more than one character. Also remove "DRAW_" prefix from character
names, TREE_* and ARROW and BLACK_CIRCLE are unambigous on their own, don't
draw anything, and are always used as an argument to special_glyph().
Rename "DASH" to "MDASH", as there's more than one type of dash.
There are more than enough calls doing string manipulations to deserve
its own files, hence do something about it.
This patch also sorts the #include blocks of all files that needed to be
updated, according to the sorting suggestions from CODING_STYLE. Since
pretty much every file needs our string manipulation functions this
effectively means that most files have sorted #include blocks now.
Also touches a few unrelated include files.
This also allows us to drop build.h from a ton of files, hence do so.
Since we touched the #includes of those files, let's order them properly
according to CODING_STYLE.
