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Re: [patch]test-container: move postclean outside of namespace changes
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:34:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: [patch]test-container: move postclean outside of namespace changes
- References: <xnr2evq358.fsf@greed.delorie.com>
On 12/5/18 12:44 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> Move the postclean step to a separate process that forks just before
> we change anything in the namespace, so that when the test exits
> we can do the cleanup in the original namespace.
I would like to see the commit message for this change include
a more detailed description of the problem.
Suggest:
~~~
During postclean.req testing it was found that the fork in the
parent process (after the unshare syscall) would fail with ENOMEM
(see recursive_remove() in test-container.c). While failing with
ENOMEM is certainly unexpected, it is simply easier to refactor
the design and have the parent remain outside of the namespace.
This change moves the postclean.req processing to a distinct
process (the parent) that then forks the test process (which will
have to fork once more to complete uid/gid transitions). When the
test process exists the cleanup process will ensure all files are
deleted when a post clean is requested.
Signed-off-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
~~~
OK for master.
Tested on x86_64 with tst-localedef-hardlinks, which now passes
cleanly with a postclean.req.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
> [BZ #23948]
> * support/test-container.c: Move postclean step to before we
> change namespaces.
>
> diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
> index 4138a08b4e..14c3bb6967 100644
> --- a/ChangeLog
> +++ b/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
> +2018-12-05 DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
> +
> + [BZ #23948]
> + * support/test-container.c: Move postclean step to before we
> + change namespaces.
> +
OK.
> 2018-12-04 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
>
> * Makefile ($(objpfx)testroot.pristine/install.stamp): Do not run
> diff --git a/support/test-container.c b/support/test-container.c
> index df450adfdb..1d1aebeaf3 100644
> --- a/support/test-container.c
> +++ b/support/test-container.c
> @@ -921,6 +921,43 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
> }
> }
>
> + if (do_postclean)
OK. postclean.req is detected.
> + {
> + pid_t pc_pid = fork ();
> +
> + if (pc_pid < 0)
> + {
> + FAIL_EXIT1 ("Can't fork for post-clean");
> + }
OK.
> + else if (pc_pid > 0)
> + {
> + /* Parent. */
> + int status;
> + waitpid (pc_pid, &status, 0);
> +
> + /* Child has exited, we can post-clean the test root. */
> + printf("running post-clean rsync\n");
> + rsync (pristine_root_path, new_root_path, 1);
OK. passing 1 for and_delete (3rd arg of rsync) so we delete all files that shouldn't be there.
> +
> + if (WIFEXITED (status))
> + exit (WEXITSTATUS (status));
> +
> + if (WIFSIGNALED (status))
> + {
> + printf ("%%SIGNALLED%%\n");
> + exit (77);
> + }
> +
> + printf ("%%EXITERROR%%\n");
> + exit (78);
> + }
> +
> + /* Child continues. */
> + }
> +
> + /* This is the last point in the program where we're still in the
> + "normal" namespace. */
OK.
> +
> #ifdef CLONE_NEWNS
> /* The unshare here gives us our own spaces and capabilities. */
> if (unshare (CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNS) < 0)
> @@ -974,14 +1011,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
> int status;
> waitpid (child, &status, 0);
>
> - /* There's a bit of magic here, since the buildroot is mounted
> - in our space, the paths are still valid, and since the mounts
> - aren't recursive, it sees *only* the built root, not anything
> - we would normally se if we rsync'd to "/" like mounted /dev
> - files. */
> - if (do_postclean)
> - rsync (pristine_root_path, new_root_path, 1);
OK. Happy to see any bit of magic removed.
> -
> if (WIFEXITED (status))
> exit (WEXITSTATUS (status));
>
>
--
Cheers,
Carlos.