CLI tools may be used in a script. E.g., a script for monitoring a
service may use `systemctl`. Previously, if the kernel command line has
e.g. systemd.log-level=debug, then systemctl in the script produces
debugging logs when the script is invoked by a .service unit, but does
not when the script is running in a terminal. Then,
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/18281#discussion_r561697482,
> I expect users to be (negatively) surprised.
In the previous commit, $SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID= is introduced. Then, we can
now detect whether a command is directly invoked by systemd or through
a script. Let's skip reading the kernel command line when a command is
invoked through a script.
This effectively reverts 41d1f469cf.
Before this, e.g., `networkctl reload` invoked by `systemctl reload systemd-networkd.service`
does not produce debugging logs even if systemd.log-level=debug is set. This fixes
the issue.
THis doesn't change the condition's logic at all, but is an attempt to
make things a bit more readable: instead of checking log_target !=
LOG_TARGET_AUTO let's actually list the targets where we want to
consider journal/syslog/kmsg, to make things a bit less confusing. After
all the message here is not to avoid them if LOG_TARGET_AUTO is set, but
to definitely do them in the other cases.
It always was the intention to expose this as trusted field _TID=, i.e.
automatically determine it from journald via some SCM_xyz field or so,
but this is never happened, and it's unlikely this will be added anytime
soon to the kernel either, hence let's just generate this sender side,
even if it means it's untrusted.
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.
Presently, CLI utilities such as systemctl will check whether they have a tty
attached or not to decide whether to parse /proc/cmdline or EFI variable
SystemdOptions looking for systemd.log_* entries.
But this check will be misleading if these tools are being launched by a
daemon, such as a monitoring daemon or automation service that runs in
background.
Make log handling of CLI tools uniform by never checking /proc/cmdline or EFI
variables to determine the logging level.
Furthermore, introduce a new log_setup_cli() shortcut to set up common options
used by most command-line utilities.
In recent systemd-nspawn we wouldn't parse init args like systemd.log-level=debug.
This is because we wouldn't even look at /proc/1/cmdline.
$ systemd-nspawn -n cat /proc/1/stat
1 (cat) R 0 1 1 34816 ....
^^^^^
34816 is 136:0 a.k.a. /dev/pts/0.
And obviously CONFIG_LINE=0 is also not logged.
The way that log_syntax_internal now looks is becoming a bit crazy, but we
can't easily conditionalize on both unit and config_file, and we have different
types, so it's not easy to make this more compact.
We would log "(null):0: Failed to parse system call, ignoring: rseq" from
log_syntax_internal() from log_syntax() from seccomp_parse_syscall_filter_full()
from seccomp_parse_syscall_filter() from config_parse_syscall_filter(),
when generating the built-in @default whitelist. Since it was not based on the
unit file, we would not pass a file name.
So let's make sure that log_syntax() does not print "(null)" pointer (which is
iffy and ugly), and use the unit name as fallback or nothing if both are missing.
In principle, one of the two should be always available, since why use log_syntax()
otherwise, but let's make things more resilient by guarding against this case too.
log_syntax() is called from a thousand places, and often in error path, so it's
hard to verify all callers.
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.
If we log to the pty that is configured as stdin/stdout/stderr of the
container too early we risk filling it up in full before we start
processing the pty from the parent process, resulting in deadlocks.
Let's hence keep a copy of the original tty we were started on before
setting up stdin/stdout/stderr, so that we can log to it, and keep using
it as long as we can.
Since the kernel's pty internal buffer is pretty small this actually
triggered deadlocks when we debug logged at lot from nspawn's child
processes, see: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/9024#issuecomment-390403674
With this change we won't use the pty at all, only the actual payload we
start will, and hence we won't deadlock on it, ever.