Fix gpt-auto-generator on usr-only root in presence of sysexts (#43591)

This adds a fallback to `blockdev_get_root`, to handle the case where
`/usr` is a sysext overlay. Additinal changes are:

- move `extension_overlay_block` to `extension-util.h`, and make it
generic to work in both confext and sysext cases (though only sysext is
actually used currently)
- add a usr-only integration test to exercise the failure

Closes #43565.
This commit is contained in:
Daan De Meyer
2026-09-14 09:51:37 +02:00
committed by GitHub
5 changed files with 161 additions and 44 deletions
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@@ -17,9 +17,12 @@
#include "devnum-util.h"
#include "dirent-util.h"
#include "errno-util.h"
#include "extension-util.h"
#include "fd-util.h"
#include "fileio.h"
#include "fs-util.h"
#include "macro.h"
#include "os-util.h"
#include "parse-util.h"
#include "path-util.h"
#include "string-util.h"
@@ -875,6 +878,13 @@ int blockdev_get_root(int level, dev_t *ret) {
return btrfs_log_dev_root(level, r, "/usr");
if (r < 0)
return log_full_errno(level, r, "Failed to determine block device of /usr/ file system: %m");
if (r == 0) { /* Not backed by a single block device, we might be looking at a sysext overlay */
r = extension_overlay_block("/usr", IMAGE_SYSEXT, &devno);
if (IN_SET(r, -ENOENT, -ENOTTY))
r = 0; /* no sysext overlay metadata */
else if (r < 0)
return log_full_errno(level, r, "Failed to determine backing device of /usr/ extension overlay: %m");
}
if (r == 0) { /* /usr/ not backed by single block device, either. */
log_debug("Neither root nor /usr/ file system are on a (single) block device.");
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@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later */
#include <linux/magic.h>
#include "alloc-util.h"
#include "architecture.h"
#include "blockdev-util.h"
#include "chase.h"
#include "devnum-util.h"
#include "env-util.h"
#include "extension-util.h"
#include "fd-util.h"
#include "fileio.h"
#include "log.h"
#include "macro.h"
#include "os-util.h"
#include "path-util.h"
#include "stat-util.h"
#include "string-util.h"
#include "strv.h"
@@ -178,3 +187,46 @@ int extension_has_forbidden_content(const char *root) {
return 0;
}
int extension_overlay_block(const char *p, ImageClass image_class, dev_t *ret) {
int r;
assert(p);
assert(ret);
assert(IN_SET(image_class, IMAGE_SYSEXT, IMAGE_CONFEXT));
/* Tries to read the backing device information systemd-sysext puts in
* the virtual file .systemd-sysext/.systemd-confext */
_cleanup_free_ char *j = path_join(p, image_class == IMAGE_CONFEXT ? ".systemd-confext" : ".systemd-sysext");
if (!j)
return log_oom_debug();
_cleanup_close_ int fd = open(j, O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY);
if (fd < 0)
return log_debug_errno(errno, "Failed to open '%s': %m", j);
r = fd_is_fs_type(fd, OVERLAYFS_SUPER_MAGIC);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to determine backing file system of '%s': %m", j);
if (r == 0)
return log_debug_errno(
SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(ENOTTY), "Backing file system of '%s' is not an overlayfs.", j);
_cleanup_free_ char *buf = NULL;
r = read_one_line_file_at(fd, "backing", &buf);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to read contents of '%s/backing': %m", j);
r = parse_devnum(buf, ret);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to parse contents of '%s/backing': %m", j);
if (major(*ret) == 0) { /* not a block device? */
*ret = 0;
return 0;
}
(void) block_get_originating(*ret, ret, /* recursive= */ false);
return 1;
}
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@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@ int parse_env_extension_hierarchies(char ***ret_hierarchies, const char *hierarc
/* Insist that extension images do not overwrite the underlying OS release file (it's fine if they place one
* in /etc/os-release, i.e. where things don't matter, as they aren't merged.) */
int extension_has_forbidden_content(const char *root);
/* Find the backing device. Returns >0 on success, 0 if the volume is not an extension, and <0 on error. */
int extension_overlay_block(const char *p, ImageClass image_class, dev_t *ret);
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@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later */
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <linux/magic.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>
@@ -10,10 +9,10 @@
#include "build-path.h"
#include "chase.h"
#include "device-util.h"
#include "devnum-util.h"
#include "dirent-util.h"
#include "env-util.h"
#include "errno-util.h"
#include "extension-util.h"
#include "fd-util.h"
#include "fdisk-util.h"
#include "fileio.h"
@@ -23,6 +22,7 @@
#include "hexdecoct.h"
#include "import-util.h"
#include "iovec-util.h"
#include "os-util.h"
#include "path-util.h"
#include "pidref.h"
#include "process-util.h"
@@ -766,47 +766,6 @@ Instance* resource_find_instance(Resource *rr, const char *version) {
return *found;
}
static int get_sysext_overlay_block(const char *p, dev_t *ret) {
int r;
assert(p);
assert(ret);
/* Tries to read the backing device information systemd-sysext puts in the virtual file
* /usr/.systemd-sysext/backing */
_cleanup_free_ char *j = path_join(p, ".systemd-sysext");
if (!j)
return log_oom_debug();
_cleanup_close_ int fd = open(j, O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY);
if (fd < 0)
return log_debug_errno(errno, "Failed to open '%s': %m", j);
r = fd_is_fs_type(fd, OVERLAYFS_SUPER_MAGIC);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to determine backing file system of '%s': %m", j);
if (r == 0)
return log_debug_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(ENOTTY), "Backing file system of '%s' is not an overlayfs.", j);
_cleanup_free_ char *buf = NULL;
r = read_one_line_file_at(fd, "backing", &buf);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to read contents of '%s/backing': %m", j);
r = parse_devnum(buf, ret);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to parse contents of '%s/backing': %m", j);
if (major(*ret) == 0) { /* not a block device? */
*ret = 0;
return 0;
}
(void) block_get_originating(*ret, ret, /* recursive= */ false);
return 1;
}
int resource_resolve_path(
Resource *rr,
const char *root,
@@ -858,7 +817,7 @@ int resource_resolve_path(
/* volatile-root not found */
r = get_block_device_harder("/usr/", &d);
if (r == 0) /* Not backed by a block device? Let's see if this is a sysext overlayfs instance */
r = get_sysext_overlay_block("/usr/", &d);
r = extension_overlay_block("/usr/", IMAGE_SYSEXT, &d);
if (r < 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to determine block device of file system: %m");
} else if (!S_ISBLK(orig_root_stats.st_mode)) /* symlink was present but not block device */
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@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
set -eux
set -o pipefail
GENERATOR_BIN="/usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-gpt-auto-generator"
WORK_DIR="$(mktemp --directory /var/tmp/test-gpt-auto-generator.XXXXXX)"
DEFINITIONS="$WORK_DIR/definitions"
IMAGE="$WORK_DIR/image.raw"
OUTPUT="$WORK_DIR/output"
ROOT="$WORK_DIR/root"
LOOP=""
at_exit() {
set +e
if [[ -n "$LOOP" ]]; then
losetup --detach "$LOOP"
fi
rm -rf "$WORK_DIR"
}
trap at_exit EXIT
test -x "$GENERATOR_BIN"
mkdir -p "$DEFINITIONS" "$OUTPUT"/{normal,early,late} "$ROOT"
cat >"$DEFINITIONS/10-usr.conf" <<EOF
[Partition]
Type=usr
SizeMinBytes=10M
SizeMaxBytes=10M
EOF
cat >"$DEFINITIONS/20-home.conf" <<EOF
[Partition]
Type=home
SizeMinBytes=10M
SizeMaxBytes=10M
EOF
systemd-repart \
--definitions="$DEFINITIONS" \
--empty=create \
--size=32M \
--dry-run=no \
--offline=yes \
"$IMAGE"
LOOP="$(losetup --show --find --partscan "$IMAGE")"
udevadm wait --timeout=60 --settle --initialized=no "$LOOP"p1 "$LOOP"p2
# Recreate a root=tmpfs system whose /usr/ is backed by a GPT partition and overlaid by systemd-sysext.
# Run the generator as PID 1 because generators deliberately do nothing in containers.
unshare --mount --pid --fork --mount-proc \
bash -euxo pipefail -s -- "$ROOT" "$OUTPUT" "$WORK_DIR" "$LOOP" "$GENERATOR_BIN" <<'EOF'
mount --make-rprivate /
mount --types tmpfs tmpfs "$1"
mkdir -p "$1"/{dev,proc,run/generator-output,sys,usr}
mount --bind /dev "$1/dev"
mount --bind /proc "$1/proc"
mount --bind /sys "$1/sys"
mount --bind "$2" "$1/run/generator-output"
mkdir -p "$3/usr-upper" "$3/usr-work"
mount --types overlay overlay \
--options lowerdir=/usr,upperdir="$3/usr-upper",workdir="$3/usr-work" \
"$1/usr"
for directory in bin lib lib64 sbin; do
if [[ -e "/$directory" ]]; then
mkdir -p "$1/$directory"
mount --bind "/$directory" "$1/$directory"
fi
done
mkdir -p "$1/usr/.systemd-sysext"
cat "/sys/class/block/${4##*/}p1/dev" >"$1/usr/.systemd-sysext/backing"
export container=
export SYSTEMD_IN_INITRD=0
export SYSTEMD_PROC_CMDLINE="root=tmpfs systemd.gpt_auto=yes"
exec chroot "$1" "$5" \
/run/generator-output/normal \
/run/generator-output/early \
/run/generator-output/late
EOF
test -f "$OUTPUT/late/home.mount"
WHAT="$(sed -n 's/^What=//p' "$OUTPUT/late/home.mount")"
test "$(readlink --canonicalize "$WHAT")" = "$(readlink --canonicalize "${LOOP}p2")"