This extends the --bind= and --overlay= syntax so that an empty string as source/upper
directory is taken as request to automatically allocate a temporary directory
below /var/tmp, whose lifetime is bound to the nspawn runtime. In combination
with the "+" path extension this permits a switch "--overlay=+/var::/var" in
order to use the container's shipped /var, combine it with a writable temporary
directory and mount it to the runtime /var of the container.
If a source path is prefixed with "+" it is taken relative to the container's
root directory instead of the host. This permits easily establishing bind and
overlay mounts based on data from the container rather than the host.
This also reworks custom_mounts_prepare(), and turns it into two functions: one
custom_mount_check_all() that remains in nspawn.c but purely verifies the
validity of the custom mounts configured. And one called
custom_mount_prepare_all() that actually does the preparation step, sorts the
custom mounts, resolves relative paths, and allocates temporary directories as
necessary.
If --template= is used on an image, then the image might not exist initially.
We can use CHASE_NON_EXISTING to properly lock the image already before it
exists. Let's do so.
Let's remove chase_symlinks_prefix() and instead introduce a flags parameter to
chase_symlinks(), with a flag CHASE_PREFIX_ROOT that exposes the behaviour of
chase_symlinks_prefix().
As suggested in PR #3667.
This PR simply ensures that --template= can be used as alternative to
--directory= when --ephemeral is used, following the logic that for ephemeral
options the source directory is actually a template.
This does not deprecate usage of --directory= with --ephemeral, as I am not
convinced the old logic wouldn't make sense.
Fixes: #3667
This resolves any paths specified on --directory=, --template=, and --image=
before using them. This makes sure nspawn can be used correctly on symlinked
images and directory trees.
Fixes: #2001
Let's use chase_symlinks() everywhere, and stop using GNU
canonicalize_file_name() everywhere. For most cases this should not change
behaviour, however increase exposure of our function to get better tested. Most
importantly in a few cases (most notably nspawn) it can take the correct root
directory into account when chasing symlinks.
Given that other file systems (notably: xfs) support reflinks these days, let's
extend the file system snapshotting logic to fall back to plan copies or
reflinks when full btrfs subvolume snapshots are not available.
This essentially makes "systemd-nspawn --ephemeral" and "systemd-nspawn
--template=" available on non-btrfs subvolumes. Of course, both operations will
still be slower on non-btrfs than on btrfs (simply because reflinking each file
individually in a directory tree is still slower than doing this in one step
for a whole subvolume), but it's probably good enough for many cases, and we
should provide the users with the tools, they have to figure out what's good
for them.
Note that "machinectl clone" already had a fallback like this in place, this
patch generalizes this, and adds similar support to our other cases.
When mountint a loopback image, we need a temporary root directory we can mount
stuff to. Make sure to actually remove it when exiting, so that we don't leave
stuff around in /tmp unnecessarily.
See: #4664
Previously --ephemeral was only supported with container trees in btrfs
subvolumes (i.e. in combination with --directory=). This adds support for
--ephemeral in conjunction with disk images (i.e. --image=) too.
As side effect this fixes that --ephemeral was accepted but ignored when using
-M on a container that turned out to be an image.
Fixes: #4664
This commit adds the possibility to leave /sys, and /proc/sys read-write.
It introduces a new (undocumented) env var SYSTEMD_NSPAWN_API_VFS_WRITABLE
to enable this feature.
If set to "yes", /sys, and /proc/sys will be read-write.
If set to "no", /sys, and /proc/sys will be read-only.
If set to "network" /proc/sys/net will be read-write. This is useful in
use-cases, where systemd-nspawn is used in an external network
namespace.
This adds the possibility to start privileged containers which need more
control over settings in the /proc, and /sys filesystem.
This is also a follow-up on the discussion from
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4018#r76971862 where an
introduction of a simple env var to enable R/W support for those
directories was already discussed.
Since 133 is now used in a few places, add a #define for it.
Also make the status message a bit informative.
Another issue introduced in b006762. The logic was borked, we were supposed
to return 0 to break the loop, and 133 to restart the container, not the other
way around.
But this doesn't seem to work, reboot fails with:
Nov 08 00:41:32 laptop systemd-nspawn[26564]: Failed to register machine: Machine 'fedora-rawhide' already exists
So actually the version before this patch worked better, since 133 > 0 and we'd
at least loop internally.
The file /usr/lib/systemd/resolv.conf can be stale, it does not tell us
whether or not systemd-resolved is running or not.
So check for /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf as well, which is created
at runtime and hence is a better indication.
Commit b006762 inverted the initial exit code which is relevant for --help and
--version without a particular reason. For these special options, parse_argv()
returns 0 so that our main() immediately skips to the end without adjusting
"ret". Otherwise, if an actual container is being started, ret is set on error
in run(), which still provides the "non-zero exit on error" behaviour.
Fixes#4605.
We don't have plural in the name of any other -util files and this
inconsistency trips me up every time I try to type this file name
from memory. "formats-util" is even hard to pronounce.
Let's make sure that our loopback files remain sparse, hence let's set
"discard" as mount option on file systems that support it if the backing device
is a loopback.
This adds a new seccomp_init_conservative() helper call that is mostly just a
wrapper around seccomp_init(), but turns off NNP and adds in all secondary
archs, for best compatibility with everything else.
Pretty much all of our code used the very same constructs for these three
steps, hence unifying this in one small function makes things a lot shorter.
This also changes incorrect usage of the "scmp_filter_ctx" type at various
places. libseccomp defines it as typedef to "void*", i.e. it is a pointer type
(pretty poor choice already!) that casts implicitly to and from all other
pointer types (even poorer choice: you defined a confusing type now, and don't
even gain any bit of type safety through it...). A lot of the code assumed the
type would refer to a structure, and hence aded additional "*" here and there.
Remove that.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/036d523641c66bef713042894a17f4335f199e49
> vfs: Don't create inodes with a uid or gid unknown to the vfs
It is expected that filesystems can not represent uids and gids from
outside of their user namespace. Keep things simple by not even
trying to create filesystem nodes with non-sense uids and gids.
So, we actually should `reset_uid_gid` early to prevent https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4223#issuecomment-252522955
$ sudo UNIFIED_CGROUP_HIERARCHY=no LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.libs .libs/systemd-nspawn -D /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide -U -b systemd.unit=multi-user.target
Spawning container fedora-rawhide on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide.
Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container.
Child died too early.
Selected user namespace base 1073283072 and range 65536.
Failed to mount to /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd: No such file or directory
Details: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4223#issuecomment-253046519Fixes: #4352
If allocation fails, the value of the point is "undefined". In practice
this matters very little, but for consistency with rest of the code,
let's check the return value.
This makes it easier to debug failed nspawn invocations:
Mounting sysfs on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/sys (MS_RDONLY|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV "")...
Mounting tmpfs on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/dev (MS_NOSUID|MS_STRICTATIME "mode=755,uid=1450901504,gid=1450901504")...
Mounting tmpfs on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/dev/shm (MS_NOSUID|MS_NODEV|MS_STRICTATIME "mode=1777,uid=1450901504,gid=1450901504")...
Mounting tmpfs on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/run (MS_NOSUID|MS_NODEV|MS_STRICTATIME "mode=755,uid=1450901504,gid=1450901504")...
Bind-mounting /sys/fs/selinux on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/sys/fs/selinux (MS_BIND "")...
Remounting /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide/sys/fs/selinux (MS_RDONLY|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_BIND|MS_REMOUNT "")...
Mounting proc on /proc (MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV "")...
Bind-mounting /proc/sys on /proc/sys (MS_BIND "")...
Remounting /proc/sys (MS_RDONLY|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_BIND|MS_REMOUNT "")...
Bind-mounting /proc/sysrq-trigger on /proc/sysrq-trigger (MS_BIND "")...
Remounting /proc/sysrq-trigger (MS_RDONLY|MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_BIND|MS_REMOUNT "")...
Mounting tmpfs on /tmp (MS_STRICTATIME "mode=1777,uid=0,gid=0")...
Mounting tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup (MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV|MS_STRICTATIME "mode=755,uid=0,gid=0")...
Mounting cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd (MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV "none,name=systemd,xattr")...
Failed to mount cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd (MS_NOSUID|MS_NOEXEC|MS_NODEV "none,name=systemd,xattr"): No such file or directory
