In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933873 a keymap was set without
the package that provides it being installed (it2 is in kbd-legacy, which is
not installed by default). Setting a non-installed keymap is problematic,
because it results in nasty failures afterward (*). So let's to the same as
e.g. for locale data, and refuse a setting if the definition doesn't exists in
the filesystem.
The implementation using nftw() is not the most efficient, but I think it's OK
in this case. This is definitely not in any kind of hot path, and I prefer not
to duplicate the filename manipulation logic in a second function.
(*) If the keymap is not found, vconsole-setup.service will fail.
dracut-cmdline-ask.service has Requires=vconsole-setup.service, so it will also
fail, and this breaks boot. dracut-cmdline-ask.service having a hard dependency
is appropriate though: we sadly don't display what the keymap is, and with a wrong
keymap, any attempts to enter a password are likely to fail.
We would return a real error sometimes from the callback, and FTW_STOP other
times. Because of FTW_ACTIONRETVAL, everything except FTW_STOP would be
ignored. I don't think using FTW_ACTIONRETVAL is useful.
nftw() can only be used meaningfully with errno. Even if we return a proper
value ourselves from the callback, it will be propagated as a return value from
nftw(), but there is no way to distinguish this from a value generated by
nftw() itself, which is -1/-EPERM on error. So let's set errno ourselves so the
caller can at least look at that.
The code still ignores all errors.
Daan De Meyer
Lennart Poettering
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek