arg_system == true and getpid() == 1 hold under the very same condition
this early in the main() function (this only changes later when we start
parsing command lines, where arg_system = true is set if users invoke us
in test mode even when getpid() != 1.
Hence, let's simplify things, and merge a couple of if branches and not
pretend they were orthogonal.
Apparently both Fedora and suse default to btrfs now, it should hence be
good enough for us too.
This enables a bunch of really nice things for us, most importanly we
can resize home directories freely (i.e. both grow *and* shrink) while
online. It also allows us to add nice subvolume based home directory
snapshotting later on.
Also, whenever we mention the three supported types, alaways mention
them in alphabetical order, which is also our new order of preference.
The description didn't really explain how the distribution mechanism
works exactly and the relationship of leaf and slice units.
Update the documentation and also explicitly explain the expected
behaviour as it is created by the memory_recursiveprot cgroup2 mount
option.
When available, enable memory_recursiveprot. Realistically it always
makes sense to delegate MemoryLow= and MemoryMin= to all children of a
slice/unit.
The kernel option is not enabled by default as it might cause
regressions in some setups. However, it is the better default in
general, and it results in a more flexible and obvious behaviour.
The alternative to using this option would be for user's to also set
DefaultMemoryLow= on slices when assigning MemoryLow=. However, this
makes the effect of MemoryLow= on some children less obvious, as it
could result in a lower protection rather than increasing it.
From the kernel documentation:
memory_recursiveprot
Recursively apply memory.min and memory.low protection to
entire subtrees, without requiring explicit downward
propagation into leaf cgroups. This allows protecting entire
subtrees from one another, while retaining free competition
within those subtrees. This should have been the default
behavior but is a mount-option to avoid regressing setups
relying on the original semantics (e.g. specifying bogusly
high 'bypass' protection values at higher tree levels).
This was added in kernel commit 8a931f801340c (mm: memcontrol:
recursive memory.low protection), which became available in 5.7 and was
subsequently fixed in kernel 5.7.7 (mm: memcontrol: handle div0 crash
race condition in memory.low).
It is possible that we will be running with an upgraded libseccomp, in which
case libseccomp might know the syscall name, even if the number is not known at
the time when systemd is being compiled. The guard only serves to break such
upgrades, by requiring that we also recompile systemd.
For s390-specific syscalls, use a define to exclude them, so that that we don't
try to filter them on other arches.
(cherry picked from commit 6cf852e79eb0eced2f77653941f9c75c3bd79386)
The kernel finally has a proper API to determine the mnt_id of a file.
Let's use it.
This adds support for the STATX_MNT_ID field of statx(), added in
kernel 5.8.
Also, let's move the glue for this to src/shared/ so that we later can
reuse this in sysemd-firstboot.
Given that libpwquality is a more a leaf dependency, let's make it
runtime optional, so that downstream distros can downgrade their package
deps from Required to Recommended.
The cryptsetup context pins the loop device even after deactivation.
Let's explicitly release the context to make sure the subsequent
loopback device detaching works cleanly.
This how this works on Linux: when atomically creating a file we need to
fully populate it under a temporary name and then when we are fully
done, sync it and the directory it is contained in, before renaming it
to the final name.
This was needed before commit 16e4fd87c5 added a
mode that opens the log fds for every single log message. This mode is used in
execute.c since then making the explicit call to log_open unnecessary.
This basically reverts ea89a119cd.
glibc 2.26 lifted restrictions on search domains count or length to
unlimited. This has also been backported to 2.17 in some distributions (RHEL 7
and derivatives). Other softwares may have their own limits for search domains,
but we should not restrict what is written out any more.
https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-announce/2017/msg00001.html
This comes up occasionally with new users. The phrase "Logs begin ..." is
ambiguous because it can be taken to mean the logs being displayed or all logs
(the intended meaning). Let's rephrase this as "Journal begins ..." to make
this clearer.
This information was already available in the debug output, but I think it
is good to include it in the message in the table. This makes it easier to wrap
one's head around the allowlist/denylist filtering.
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
brainrom
Wen Yang
Anita Zhang
Phaedrus Leeds
Lennart Poettering
Benjamin Berg
Alyssa Ross
Nicolas Fella
Yu Watanabe
Franck Bui
Dimitri John Ledkov