[lxc-devel] [PATCH] chown_mapped_rootid: don't double-map root id

Stéphane Graber stgraber at ubuntu.com
Tue Mar 4 16:10:56 UTC 2014


On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 09:58:30AM -0600, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> If the user maps container root to his host uid, chown_mapped_rootid
> tries to make the same mapping twice and gets -EINVAL.
> 
> Reported-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>

Acked-by: Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com>

> ---
>  src/lxc/conf.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/lxc/conf.c b/src/lxc/conf.c
> index 2622371..1cb058d 100644
> --- a/src/lxc/conf.c
> +++ b/src/lxc/conf.c
> @@ -3439,6 +3439,13 @@ int chown_mapped_root(char *path, struct lxc_conf *conf)
>  		}
>  		return 0;
>  	}
> +
> +	if (rootid == geteuid()) {
> +		// nothing to do
> +		INFO("%s: container root is our uid;  no need to chown" ,__func__);
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
>  	pid = fork();
>  	if (pid < 0) {
>  		SYSERROR("Failed forking");
> -- 
> 1.9.0
> 
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-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
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