[lxc-devel] [PATCH] get rid of fancy proctitles

Tycho Andersen tycho.andersen at canonical.com
Mon Nov 16 17:44:05 UTC 2015


It turns out clobbering the environ kernel stack does actually affect the
kernel environment (viz [1]), regardless of what previous behavior or man
pages said. For the 1.1 series, we should simply not try to clobber
proctitles.

[1]: http://paste.ubuntu.com/13300018/

Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen at canonical.com>
---
 src/lxc/criu.c         |   9 ----
 src/lxc/lxccontainer.c |   9 ----
 src/lxc/utils.c        | 123 -------------------------------------------------
 src/lxc/utils.h        |   1 -
 4 files changed, 142 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lxc/criu.c b/src/lxc/criu.c
index 7ee6cbe..a76f02d 100644
--- a/src/lxc/criu.c
+++ b/src/lxc/criu.c
@@ -465,7 +465,6 @@ void do_restore(struct lxc_container *c, int pipe, char *directory, bool verbose
 		goto out_fini_handler;
 	} else {
 		int ret;
-		char title[2048];
 
 		pid_t w = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
 		if (w == -1) {
@@ -511,14 +510,6 @@ void do_restore(struct lxc_container *c, int pipe, char *directory, bool verbose
 			goto out_fini_handler;
 		}
 
-		/*
-		 * See comment in lxcapi_start; we don't care if these
-		 * fail because it's just a beauty thing. We just
-		 * assign the return here to silence potential.
-		 */
-		ret = snprintf(title, sizeof(title), "[lxc monitor] %s %s", c->config_path, c->name);
-		ret = setproctitle(title);
-
 		ret = lxc_poll(c->name, handler);
 		if (ret)
 			lxc_abort(c->name, handler);
diff --git a/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c b/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
index 11d1822..503925e 100644
--- a/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
+++ b/src/lxc/lxccontainer.c
@@ -689,7 +689,6 @@ static bool do_lxcapi_start(struct lxc_container *c, int useinit, char * const a
 	* while container is running...
 	*/
 	if (daemonize) {
-		char title[2048];
 		lxc_monitord_spawn(c->config_path);
 
 		pid_t pid = fork();
@@ -704,14 +703,6 @@ static bool do_lxcapi_start(struct lxc_container *c, int useinit, char * const a
 			return wait_on_daemonized_start(c, pid);
 		}
 
-		/* We don't really care if this doesn't print all the
-		 * characters; all that it means is that the proctitle will be
-		 * ugly. Similarly, we also don't care if setproctitle()
-		 * fails. */
-		snprintf(title, sizeof(title), "[lxc monitor] %s %s", c->config_path, c->name);
-		INFO("Attempting to set proc title to %s", title);
-		setproctitle(title);
-
 		/* second fork to be reparented by init */
 		pid = fork();
 		if (pid < 0) {
diff --git a/src/lxc/utils.c b/src/lxc/utils.c
index d9e769d..3f83865 100644
--- a/src/lxc/utils.c
+++ b/src/lxc/utils.c
@@ -1341,129 +1341,6 @@ char *get_template_path(const char *t)
 }
 
 /*
- * Sets the process title to the specified title. Note:
- *   1. this function requires root to succeed
- *   2. it clears /proc/self/environ
- *   3. it may not succed (e.g. if title is longer than /proc/self/environ +
- *      the original title)
- */
-int setproctitle(char *title)
-{
-	char buf[2048], *tmp;
-	FILE *f;
-	int i, len, ret = 0;
-
-	/* We don't really need to know all of this stuff, but unfortunately
-	 * PR_SET_MM_MAP requires us to set it all at once, so we have to
-	 * figure it out anyway.
-	 */
-	unsigned long start_data, end_data, start_brk, start_code, end_code,
-			start_stack, arg_start, arg_end, env_start, env_end,
-			brk_val;
-	struct prctl_mm_map prctl_map;
-
-	f = fopen_cloexec("/proc/self/stat", "r");
-	if (!f) {
-		return -1;
-	}
-
-	tmp = fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), f);
-	fclose(f);
-	if (!tmp) {
-		return -1;
-	}
-
-	/* Skip the first 25 fields, column 26-28 are start_code, end_code,
-	 * and start_stack */
-	tmp = strchr(buf, ' ');
-	for (i = 0; i < 24; i++) {
-		if (!tmp)
-			return -1;
-		tmp = strchr(tmp+1, ' ');
-	}
-	if (!tmp)
-		return -1;
-
-	i = sscanf(tmp, "%lu %lu %lu", &start_code, &end_code, &start_stack);
-	if (i != 3)
-		return -1;
-
-	/* Skip the next 19 fields, column 45-51 are start_data to arg_end */
-	for (i = 0; i < 19; i++) {
-		if (!tmp)
-			return -1;
-		tmp = strchr(tmp+1, ' ');
-	}
-
-	if (!tmp)
-		return -1;
-
-	i = sscanf(tmp, "%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu",
-		&start_data,
-		&end_data,
-		&start_brk,
-		&arg_start,
-		&arg_end,
-		&env_start,
-		&env_end);
-	if (i != 7)
-		return -1;
-
-	/* Include the null byte here, because in the calculations below we
-	 * want to have room for it. */
-	len = strlen(title) + 1;
-
-	/* We're truncating the environment, so we should use at most the
-	 * length of the argument + environment for the title. */
-	if (len > env_end - arg_start) {
-		arg_end = env_end;
-		len = env_end - arg_start;
-		title[len-1] = '\0';
-	} else {
-		/* Only truncate the environment if we're actually going to
-		 * overwrite part of it. */
-		if (len >= arg_end - arg_start) {
-			env_start = env_end;
-		}
-
-		arg_end = arg_start + len;
-
-		/* check overflow */
-		if (arg_end < len || arg_end < arg_start) {
-			return -1;
-		}
-
-	}
-
-	brk_val = syscall(__NR_brk, 0);
-
-	prctl_map = (struct prctl_mm_map) {
-		.start_code = start_code,
-		.end_code = end_code,
-		.start_stack = start_stack,
-		.start_data = start_data,
-		.end_data = end_data,
-		.start_brk = start_brk,
-		.brk = brk_val,
-		.arg_start = arg_start,
-		.arg_end = arg_end,
-		.env_start = env_start,
-		.env_end = env_end,
-		.auxv = NULL,
-		.auxv_size = 0,
-		.exe_fd = -1,
-	};
-
-	ret = prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_MAP, (long) &prctl_map, sizeof(prctl_map), 0);
-	if (ret == 0)
-		strcpy((char*)arg_start, title);
-	else
-		SYSERROR("setting cmdline failed");
-
-	return ret;
-}
-
-/*
  * @path:    a pathname where / replaced with '\0'.
  * @offsetp: pointer to int showing which path segment was last seen.
  *           Updated on return to reflect the next segment.
diff --git a/src/lxc/utils.h b/src/lxc/utils.h
index 059026f..5cd58da 100644
--- a/src/lxc/utils.h
+++ b/src/lxc/utils.h
@@ -278,7 +278,6 @@ int print_to_file(const char *file, const char *content);
 bool switch_to_ns(pid_t pid, const char *ns);
 int is_dir(const char *path);
 char *get_template_path(const char *t);
-int setproctitle(char *title);
 int safe_mount(const char *src, const char *dest, const char *fstype,
 		unsigned long flags, const void *data, const char *rootfs);
 int mount_proc_if_needed(const char *rootfs);
-- 
2.5.0



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