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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2022-12-13 14:32:35 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2022-12-14 22:12:44 +0100
commitca6ce62d2a437432082b5c6e5d4275d56055510f (patch)
tree134e8f1a48de72a6c42f01dbf1a7cfc88b8c7973 /xorg
parent61ef30515b44c478cf1aa1155d5b306f09c9dc5a (diff)
downloadsystemd-ca6ce62d2a437432082b5c6e5d4275d56055510f.tar.gz
manager: execute generators in a mount namespace "sandbox"
When generators are executed during early boot, /tmp might not be available yet. This causes problems with bash, because here-docs don't work. Even non-shell code can often assume that /tmp is available. This limitation is known to trip up people, and when the code is tested on a "normal" system, everything works. We can solve this nicely, and get another small benefit, by making most of the file system read-only and "punching holes" for some dirs that should be writable. The generator code runs with full privileges and can do anything it wants by writing appropriate systemd units, so it doesn't make much sense to do any significant sandboxing around generators. But making root read-only is nice because it can catch stupid mistakes where the generator tries to write to a wrong path or something like that. We effectively also get a "private /tmp" for the generators, which protects them against existing files in /tmp. The path does the following: when executing generators, we fork, and the child unshares root and makes it recursively read-only, with the exception of /sys and /run. Error handling is permissive — if some of this setup fails, we're in the same state as before the patch. Fixes #24430.
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