[systemd-devel] [PATCH] [PATCH v3] nspawn: fallback on bind mount when mknod fails
Dave Reisner
d at falconindy.com
Tue Mar 31 08:35:43 PDT 2015
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 05:14:48PM +0200, Alban Crequy wrote:
> From: Alban Crequy <alban at endocode.com>
>
> Some systems abusively restrict mknod, even when the device node already
> exists in /dev. This is unfortunate because it prevents systemd-nspawn
> from creating the basic devices in /dev in the container.
>
> This patch implements a workaround: when mknod fails, fallback on bind
> mounts.
>
> Additionally, /dev/console was created with a mknod with the same
> major/minor as /dev/null before bind mounting a pts on it. This patch
> removes the mknod and creates an empty regular file instead.
>
> In order to test this patch, I used the following configuration, which I
> think should replicate the system with the abusive restriction on mknod:
>
> # grep devices /proc/self/cgroup
> 4:devices:/user.slice/restrict
> # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/devices/user.slice/restrict/devices.list
> c 1:9 r
> c 5:2 rw
> c 136:* rw
> # systemd-nspawn --register=false -D .
>
> v2:
> - remove "bind", it is not needed since there is already MS_BIND
> v3:
> - fix error management when calling touch()
> - fix lowercase in error message
> ---
> src/nspawn/nspawn.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
> index b830141..7e56cf2 100644
> --- a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
> +++ b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
> @@ -1449,8 +1449,18 @@ static int copy_devnodes(const char *dest) {
> return -r;
> }
>
> - if (mknod(to, st.st_mode, st.st_rdev) < 0)
> - return log_error_errno(errno, "mknod(%s) failed: %m", to);
> + if (mknod(to, st.st_mode, st.st_rdev) < 0) {
> + if (errno != EPERM)
> + return log_error_errno(errno, "mknod(%s) failed: %m", to);
> +
> + /* Some systems abusively restrict mknod but
> + * allow bind mounts. */
> + r = touch(to);
> + if (r < 0)
> + return log_error_errno(r, "touch (%s) failed: %m", to);
Is this really what you wanted? It's not obvious that errno will have
the correct value when %m is evaluated. I would have used strerror(-r)
here.
> + if (mount(from, to, NULL, MS_BIND, NULL) < 0)
> + return log_error_errno(errno, "Both mknod and bind mount (%s) failed: %m", to);
> + }
>
> if (arg_userns && arg_uid_shift != UID_INVALID)
> if (lchown(to, arg_uid_shift, arg_uid_shift) < 0)
> @@ -1481,7 +1491,6 @@ static int setup_ptmx(const char *dest) {
> static int setup_dev_console(const char *dest, const char *console) {
> _cleanup_umask_ mode_t u;
> const char *to;
> - struct stat st;
> int r;
>
> assert(dest);
> @@ -1489,24 +1498,18 @@ static int setup_dev_console(const char *dest, const char *console) {
>
> u = umask(0000);
>
> - if (stat("/dev/null", &st) < 0)
> - return log_error_errno(errno, "Failed to stat /dev/null: %m");
> -
> r = chmod_and_chown(console, 0600, 0, 0);
> if (r < 0)
> return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to correct access mode for TTY: %m");
>
> /* We need to bind mount the right tty to /dev/console since
> * ptys can only exist on pts file systems. To have something
> - * to bind mount things on we create a device node first, and
> - * use /dev/null for that since we the cgroups device policy
> - * allows us to create that freely, while we cannot create
> - * /dev/console. (Note that the major minor doesn't actually
> - * matter here, since we mount it over anyway). */
> + * to bind mount things on we create a empty regular file. */
>
> to = strjoina(dest, "/dev/console");
> - if (mknod(to, (st.st_mode & ~07777) | 0600, st.st_rdev) < 0)
> - return log_error_errno(errno, "mknod() for /dev/console failed: %m");
> + r = touch(to);
> + if (r < 0)
> + return log_error_errno(r, "touch() for /dev/console failed: %m");
>
> if (mount(console, to, NULL, MS_BIND, NULL) < 0)
> return log_error_errno(errno, "Bind mount for /dev/console failed: %m");
> --
> 2.1.4
>
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