bless-boot: in "status" output report bad state from prev boot as "dirty"

The bless-boot logic currently assumes that if the name of the boot
entry reported via the EFI var matches the name on disk that the state
is "indeterminate", as we haven't counted down the counter (to mark it
bad) or drop the counter (to mark it good) yet. But there's one corner
case we so far didn't care about: what if the entry already reached 0
left tries in a previous boot, i.e. if the user invoked an entry already
known to be completely bad. In that case we'd still return
"indeterminate", but that's kinda misleading, because we *know* the
currently booted entry is bad, however we inherited that fact from a
previous boot, we didn't determine it on the current.

hence, let's introduce a new status we report in this case, that is both
distinct from "bad" (which indicates whether the *current* boot is bad)
and "indirect" (which indicates the current boot has not been decided on
yet): "dirty".

Why "dirty"? To mirror "clean" which we already have, which indicates a
boot already marked good in a previous boot, which is a relatively
symmetric state.

This is a really weak api break of sorts, because it introduces a new
state we never reported before, but I think it's fine, because the old
reporting was just wrong, and in a way this is bugfix, that we now
report correctly something where previously returned kind of rubbish
(though systematic rubbish).

Replaces:  #37350
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Lennart Poettering
2025-05-12 13:04:16 +02:00
parent 7a8372a9f1
commit 9420a0e6cb
2 changed files with 32 additions and 13 deletions
+14 -3
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@@ -372,7 +372,14 @@ static int verb_status(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
}
if (faccessat(fd, skip_leading_slash(path), F_OK, 0) >= 0) {
puts("indeterminate");
/* If the item we booted with still exists under its name, it means we have not
* change the current boot's marking so far. This may have two reasons: because we
* simply didn't do that yet but still plan to, or because the left tries counter is
* already at zero, hence we cannot further decrease it to mark it even
* "worse"... Here we check the current counter to detect the latter case and return
* "dirty", since the item is already marked bad from a previous boot, but otherwise
* report "indeterminate" since we just didn't make a decision yet. */
puts(left == 0 ? "dirty" : "indeterminate");
return 0;
}
if (errno != ENOENT)
@@ -402,10 +409,10 @@ static int verb_status(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
static int verb_set(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
_cleanup_free_ char *path = NULL, *prefix = NULL, *suffix = NULL, *good = NULL, *bad = NULL;
const char *target, *source1, *source2;
uint64_t done;
uint64_t left, done;
int r;
r = acquire_boot_count_path(&path, &prefix, NULL, &done, &suffix);
r = acquire_boot_count_path(&path, &prefix, &left, &done, &suffix);
if (r == -EUNATCH) /* acquire_boot_count_path() won't log on its own for this specific error */
return log_error_errno(r, "Not booted with boot counting in effect.");
if (r < 0)
@@ -434,6 +441,10 @@ static int verb_set(int argc, char *argv[], void *userdata) {
source2 = good; /* Maybe this boot was previously marked as 'good'? */
} else {
assert(streq(argv[0], "indeterminate"));
if (left == 0)
return log_error_errno(r, "Current boot entry was already marked bad in a previous boot, cannot reset to indeterminate.");
target = path;
source1 = good;
source2 = bad;