[lxc-devel] [PATCH] Create lxcpath if it's missing

S.Çağlar Onur caglar at 10ur.org
Tue May 12 18:55:00 UTC 2015


Hey,

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgraber at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:27:48PM -0400, S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
>> Otherwise calling list_defined_containers just after installing LXC ends up with the following error
>>
>> lxc: lxccontainer.c: list_defined_containers: 4310 No such file or directory - opendir on lxcpath
>>
>> $ /home/caglar/go/src/gopkg.in/lxc/go-lxc.v2/examples/list
>> 2015/05/12 14:23:08 Defined containers:
>> lxc: lxccontainer.c: list_defined_containers: 4310 No such file or directory - opendir on lxcpath
>> 2015/05/12 14:23:08
>> 2015/05/12 14:23:08 Active containers:
>> 2015/05/12 14:23:08
>> 2015/05/12 14:23:08 Active and Defined containers:
>> $
>>
>> Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar at 10ur.org>
>> ---
>>  src/lxc/lxccontainer.c | 5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c b/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
>> index 8999f44..e8bade3 100644
>> --- a/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
>> +++ b/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
>> @@ -3965,6 +3965,11 @@ int list_defined_containers(const char *lxcpath, char ***names, struct lxc_conta
>>       if (!lxcpath)
>>               lxcpath = lxc_global_config_value("lxc.lxcpath");
>>
>> +     if (mkdir_p(lxcpath, 0755) < 0) {
>
> I'm not yet sure that we really want to do the mkdir, but the dir
> permission there is wrong, lxcpath should be 700.
>
> The reason for this is to avoid security issues where an unprivileged
> user can traverse through lxcpath and find an old setuid binary with a
> security issue they can use to gain root.

Hmm I tried 700 first but failed and thought it needs to be 755 cause it tell me

Permission denied - could not access /home/caglar/.local/share/lxc.
Please grant it 'x' access, or add an ACL for the container root.

Do you see anything weird with the following setup?

caglar at pop:~/go/src/gopkg.in/lxc/go-lxc.v2/examples$ stat /home/caglar/.local/
  File: ‘/home/caglar/.local/’
  Size: 10         Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 28h/40d Inode: 283         Links: 1
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/  caglar)   Gid: ( 1000/  caglar)
Access: 2015-05-12 14:51:28.458063615 -0400
Modify: 2015-04-23 17:12:43.084709204 -0400
Change: 2015-05-12 14:51:27.698078130 -0400
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caglar at pop:~/go/src/gopkg.in/lxc/go-lxc.v2/examples$ stat
/home/caglar/.local/share/
  File: ‘/home/caglar/.local/share/’
  Size: 454       Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 28h/40d Inode: 284         Links: 1
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/  caglar)   Gid: ( 1000/  caglar)
Access: 2015-05-12 14:50:33.931108423 -0400
Modify: 2015-05-12 14:41:45.317654121 -0400
Change: 2015-05-12 14:51:28.922054753 -0400
 Birth: -

caglar at pop:~/go/src/gopkg.in/lxc/go-lxc.v2/examples$ stat
/home/caglar/.local/share/lxc/
  File: ‘/home/caglar/.local/share/lxc/’
  Size: 32         Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 28h/40d Inode: 4233        Links: 1
Access: (0700/drwx------)  Uid: ( 1000/  caglar)   Gid: ( 1000/  caglar)
Access: 2015-05-12 14:51:07.050473182 -0400
Modify: 2015-05-12 14:51:05.054511412 -0400
Change: 2015-05-12 14:51:05.054511412 -0400
 Birth: -

caglar at pop:~/go/src/gopkg.in/lxc/go-lxc.v2/examples$ ./create
2015/05/12 14:52:08 Creating container...

caglar at pop:~/go/src/gopkg.in/lxc/go-lxc.v2/examples$ lxc-start -d -n
rubik --logfile log --logpriority debug
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 344 The container failed to start.
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 346 To get more details, run the
container in foreground mode.
lxc-start: lxc_start.c: main: 348 Additional information can be
obtained by setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.

caglar at pop:~/go/src/gopkg.in/lxc/go-lxc.v2/examples$ grep ERROR log
      lxc-start 1431456777.743 ERROR    lxc_start -
start.c:print_top_failing_dir:102 - Permission denied - could not
access /home/caglar/.local/share/lxc.  Please grant it 'x' access, or
add an ACL for the container root.
      lxc-start 1431456777.743 ERROR    lxc_sync -
sync.c:__sync_wait:51 - invalid sequence number 1. expected 2
      lxc-start 1431456777.787 ERROR    lxc_start -
start.c:__lxc_start:1164 - failed to spawn 'rubik'
      lxc-start 1431456782.794 ERROR    lxc_start_ui -
lxc_start.c:main:344 - The container failed to start.
      lxc-start 1431456782.794 ERROR    lxc_start_ui -
lxc_start.c:main:346 - To get more details, run the container in
foreground mode.
      lxc-start 1431456782.794 ERROR    lxc_start_ui -
lxc_start.c:main:348 - Additional information can be obtained by
setting the --logfile and --logpriority options.
caglar at pop:~/go/src/gopkg.in/lxc/go-lxc.v2/examples$

>> +             SYSERROR("failed to create lxcpath directory %s", lxcpath);
>> +             return -1;
>> +     }
>> +
>>       dir = opendir(lxcpath);
>>       if (!dir) {
>>               SYSERROR("opendir on lxcpath");
>> --
>> 2.1.4
>>
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S.Çağlar Onur <caglar at 10ur.org>


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