This reverts commit 6b219b74de.
This commit doesn't look right to me. We have to unmount everything
recursively *before* we MS_MOVE because the MS_MOVE will not get rid of
it for us, and we simply cannot access these mounts after the MS_MOVE is
complete anymore.
This is a fundamental difference between MS_MOVE and pivot_root(). The
latter repivots the entire mount table getting rid of anything outside
of the new root. MS_MOVE otoh just mounts a bunch of mount points to the
top, leaving in place whatever might be underneath it.
Thus, if we go through the MS_MOVE codepath we must unmount everything
explicitly before doing so because otherwise the mounts will be pinned
forever, but be entirely invisble to userspace.
Negative flags always raise eyebrows. Let's normalize
SWITCH_ROOT_SKIP_RECURSIVE_RUN to become SWITCH_ROOT_RECURSIVE_RUN, i.e.
make recursive behaviour opt-in, rather than opt-out. We only want it
for the initrd→host transition, and in all other cases we'd prefer to
avoid it.
This allows us to simplify some code. Also, normalize the mount point
table in switch_root() a bit, to be static const, and then just select
between two mount flag sets via SWITCH_ROOT_RECURSIVE_RUN, where the
mount flag without MS_BIND (i.e. zero) just means "skip this entry".
This does not actually change anything in behaviour, it's just
refactoring.
Follow-up for: b12d41a8bb
Our shutdown binary that takes over as PID 1 when shutting down puts
great efforts into a sync() that comes with a time-out once sync'ing
process stops. If we'd add another dumb sync() here, we kinda defeat all
it is good for. Hence, let's keep the sync() in for most codepats, but
let's disable it for the final shutdown logic when we transition back
into the exitrd. After all we sync()ed more than enough here, no need to
sync() even more.
Let's replace the current boolean param with a proper flags param. With
a single flag this doesn't appear to make much sense, though it does
already make things more readable I think.
However, once we add a second flag, it starts to make more sense.
Also, while we are at it, condition the "istmp" determinaton with this
flag too, since we only need it when the flag is set.
We previously would use MS_MOVE to move the old procfs, sysfs, /dev/ and
/run to the new place in some places, and MS_BIND in others.
The logic when to use MS_MOVE and when to use MS_BIND was pretty
arbitrary so far: we'd use MS_MOVE during the initrd → host transition
and MS_BIND when transitioning from host into the exitrd during
shutdown.
Traditionally, using MS_MOVE was preferable, because we didn't bother
with unmounting the old mount hierarchy before the switch root, and thus
using MS_MOVE did some clean-up as side-effect (because the old mounts
went away this way). But since we nowadays properly umount all remaining
mount points (since 268d1244e8) when
transitioning it's pointless.
Let's just use MS_BIND always. Let's tweak it though: let's use
MS_BIND|MS_REC for the kernel API VFS, and MS_BIND without MS_REC for
/run/. The latter reflects the fact that the submounts /run/ has usually
are not so much about just accessing kernel APIs but about auxiliary
user resources. Hence let's only move the main mount over for that.
While we are at it, also set up the base filesystem *before* we move the
mounts from the old to the new root, since the base filesystem setup
logic creates various needed inodes for us, which we really should make
use of instead of creating on our own.
This adds a new mechanism for rebooting, a form of "userspace reboot"
hereby dubbed "soft-reboot". It will stop all services as in a usual
shutdown, possibly transition into a new root fs and then issue a fresh
initial transaction. The kernel is not replaced.
File descriptors can be passed over, thus opening the door for leaving
certain resources around between such reboots.
Usecase: this is an extremely quick way to reset userspace fully when
updating image based systems, without going through a full
hardware/firmware/boot loader/kernel/initrd cycle. It minimizes "grayout time"
for OS updates. (In particular when combined with kernel live patching)
So far, we invoked pivot_root() specifying /mnt/ as second argument,
which then unmounted right-after. We'd create /mnt/ if needed. This
sucks, because it means /mnt/ must strictly be pre-created on immutable
images.
Remove this limitation, by using pivot_root() with "." as source and
target, which will result in two stacked mounts afterwards: the new one
underneath, the old one ontop. We can then simply unmount the top one,
and have what we want without needing any extra /mnt/ dir.
Since we don't need /mnt/ anymore we can get rid of the extra
unmount_old_root parameter and simply specify it as NULL if we don't
want the old mount to stick around.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
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.
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.
Lennart Poettering
Yu Watanabe
Luca Boccassi
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
Daniel Mack
Thomas Hindoe Paaboel Andersen
Harald Hoyer