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diff --git a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
index 90c8b94248..71cdd3f39f 100644
--- a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
+++ b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
@@ -394,6 +394,13 @@ static int setup_kmsg(const char *dest, int kmsg_socket) {
u = umask(0000);
+ /* We create the kmsg FIFO as /dev/kmsg, but immediately
+ * delete it after bind mounting it to /proc/kmsg. While FIFOs
+ * on the reading side behave very similar to /proc/kmsg,
+ * their writing side behaves differently from /dev/kmsg in
+ * that writing blocks when nothing is reading. In order to
+ * avoid any problems with containers deadlocking due to this
+ * we simply make /dev/kmsg unavailable to the container. */
if (asprintf(&from, "%s/dev/kmsg", dest) < 0) {
log_error("Out of memory");
r = -ENOMEM;
@@ -456,6 +463,9 @@ static int setup_kmsg(const char *dest, int kmsg_socket) {
goto finish;
}
+ /* And now make the FIFO unavailable as /dev/kmsg... */
+ unlink(from);
+
finish:
free(from);
free(to);