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-rw-r--r--src/nspawn/nspawn-mount.c15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/nspawn/nspawn-mount.c b/src/nspawn/nspawn-mount.c
index 2dabe2ae5b..1814ea6ca5 100644
--- a/src/nspawn/nspawn-mount.c
+++ b/src/nspawn/nspawn-mount.c
@@ -288,10 +288,17 @@ int mount_sysfs(const char *dest) {
x = prefix_roota(top, "/fs/kdbus");
(void) mkdir_p(x, 0755);
- /* Create mountpoint for cgroups. Otherwise we are not allowed since we
- * remount /sys read-only.
- */
- if (cg_ns_supported()) {
+ /* We need to ensure that /sys/fs/cgroup exists before we remount /sys read-only.
+ *
+ * If !use_cgns, then this was already done by the outer child; so we only need to do it here it if use_cgns.
+ * This function doesn't know whether use_cgns, but !cg_ns_supported()⇒!use_cgns, so we can "optimize" the case
+ * where we _know_ !use_cgns, and deal with a no-op mkdir_p() in the false-positive where cgns_supported() but
+ * !use_cgns.
+ *
+ * But is it really much of an optimization? We're potentially spending an access(2) (cg_ns_supported() could
+ * be cached from a previous call) to potentially save an lstat(2) and mkdir(2); and all of them are on virtual
+ * fileystems, so they should all be pretty cheap. */
+ if (cg_ns_supported()) { /* if (use_cgns) { */
x = prefix_roota(top, "/fs/cgroup");
(void) mkdir_p(x, 0755);
}