From 6d66bd3b2a7ebe99aa7fcd06df9bc05b178a142a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Evgeny Vereshchagin Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 09:05:46 +0000 Subject: nspawn: become a new root early https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/036d523641c66bef713042894a17f4335f199e49 > vfs: Don't create inodes with a uid or gid unknown to the vfs It is expected that filesystems can not represent uids and gids from outside of their user namespace. Keep things simple by not even trying to create filesystem nodes with non-sense uids and gids. So, we actually should `reset_uid_gid` early to prevent https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4223#issuecomment-252522955 $ sudo UNIFIED_CGROUP_HIERARCHY=no LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.libs .libs/systemd-nspawn -D /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide -U -b systemd.unit=multi-user.target Spawning container fedora-rawhide on /var/lib/machines/fedora-rawhide. Press ^] three times within 1s to kill container. Child died too early. Selected user namespace base 1073283072 and range 65536. Failed to mount to /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd: No such file or directory Details: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4223#issuecomment-253046519 Fixes: #4352 --- src/nspawn/nspawn.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'src') diff --git a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c index 2cbe563953..295293858e 100644 --- a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c +++ b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c @@ -2684,6 +2684,10 @@ static int inner_child( } } + r = reset_uid_gid(); + if (r < 0) + return log_error_errno(r, "Couldn't become new root: %m"); + r = mount_all(NULL, arg_userns_mode != USER_NAMESPACE_NO, true, @@ -2726,10 +2730,6 @@ static int inner_child( return r; } - r = reset_uid_gid(); - if (r < 0) - return log_error_errno(r, "Couldn't become new root: %m"); - r = setup_boot_id(NULL); if (r < 0) return r; -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf