lib/deploy: Add support for overlay initrds

In FCOS and RHCOS, the need to configure software in the initramfs has
come up multiple times. Sometimes, using kernel arguments suffices.
Other times, it really must be a configuration file. Rebuilding the
initramfs on the client-side however is a costly operation. Not only
does it add complexity to the update workflow, it also erodes a lot of
the value obtained from using the baked "blessed" initramfs from the
tree itself.

One elegant way to address this is to allow specifying multiple
initramfses. This is supported by most bootloaders (notably GRUB) and
results in each initrd being overlayed on top of each other.

This patch allows libostree clients to leverage this so that they can
avoid regenerating the initramfs entirely. libostree itself is agnostic
as to what kind and how much data overlay initrds contain. It's up to
the clients to enforce such boundaries.

To implement this, we add a new ostree_sysroot_stage_overlay_initrd
which takes a file descriptor and returns a checksum. Then users can
pass these checksums when calling the deploy APIs via the new array
option `overlay_initrds`. We copy these files into `/boot` and add them
to the BLS as another `initrd` entry.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libostree/ostree-deployment-private.h b/src/libostree/ostree-deployment-private.h
index ad77317d..b339ae26 100644
--- a/src/libostree/ostree-deployment-private.h
+++ b/src/libostree/ostree-deployment-private.h
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ G_BEGIN_DECLS
  * @origin: How to construct an upgraded version of this tree
  * @unlocked: The unlocked state
  * @staged: TRUE iff this deployment is staged
+ * @overlay_initrds: Checksums of staged additional initrds for this deployment
+ * @overlay_initrds_id: Unique ID generated from initrd checksums; used to compare deployments
  */
 struct _OstreeDeployment
 {
@@ -52,8 +54,15 @@ struct _OstreeDeployment
   GKeyFile *origin;
   OstreeDeploymentUnlockedState unlocked;
   gboolean staged;
+  char **overlay_initrds;
+  char *overlay_initrds_id;
 };
 
 void _ostree_deployment_set_bootcsum (OstreeDeployment *self, const char *bootcsum);
 
+void _ostree_deployment_set_overlay_initrds (OstreeDeployment *self,
+                                             char **overlay_initrds);
+
+char** _ostree_deployment_get_overlay_initrds (OstreeDeployment *self);
+
 G_END_DECLS