It turns out people sometimes want to be able to change the kernel
arguments. Add a convenient API to do so for the current deployment.
This will be used by Anaconda.
We shouldn't g_print() from a library, particularly when the
expectation is that the client has an async progress set up.
This should fix the pull output extending the status line.
If a MITM attacker (or just network corruption) causes a temporary
downloaded object in tmp/ to be corrupted, we'll end up
continually trying to commit it, and fail.
Fix this unlinking the temp file immediately after opening it. This
will ensure that if we exit due to an error (or crash), the kernel
will clean up the space for us.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725924
This is a bit more efficient in that we're not walking full paths, and
it helps avoid security/reliability issues if an attacker (or just a
misbehaving process) has the ability to mutate paths in the middle.
Mixing async and threads has proved to be too much for my little mind.
It has race conditions that I've tried repeatedly to fix, but failed.
The threading here was scanning metadata objects - and there are
two parts to that:
1) Physically loading them from disk
2) Parsing them
Now #1 has been partially addressed by avoiding a storm of lstat() if
we're starting from a known working state. If pull gets interrupted,
then we do need to rescan all objects. Also, we can address this with
local metadata packfiles.
The other potentially slow bit is that we recurse across the metadata,
blocking the main thread. We could ameliorate that in the future by
scheduling metadata parsing as idle "chunks".
Anyways, let's move the needle back to reliability, and readd speed
more carefully.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706456
We don't want to allow MITM attackers to intercept upgrade requests
and provide clients with older OS versions vulnerable to security
flaws.
Only "ostree admin upgrade" gets this behavior for now - whether we
want to do it for "ostree admin switch" is another question.
It's better if this is independent from the OstreeSysroot; for
example, a policy is active in a given deployment root at once, not
for a sysroot globally.
We can also collect SELinux-related API in one place.
Unfortunately at the moment there can be only one instance of this
class per process.
We're seeing some hangs while ostree is fetching updates.
I imagine the fact that SoupSessionAsync has no timeout by default
could be the cause of this.
Set timeout values to 60 seconds, which is the default for the new
SoupSession API which we may switch to later.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724310
The instructions one finds on the internets are apparently wrong, we
really need to keep the default here, since gpgme uses it to actually
find the helper binary it runs.
This fixes the GPG tests for me on EL7 at least.
This has a very basic level of functionality (deltas can be generated,
and applied offline). There is only some stubbed out pull code to
fetch them via HTTP.
But, better to commit this now and improve it from a known starting
point, rather than have it languish in a branch.
First, /var needs to be labeled at least once. We should probably
rearrange things so that /var is only created (and labeled) on the
first deployment, but this patch adds a /var/.ostree-selabeled file
instead.
Second, when doing the /etc merge, we compare the xattrs of the old
/usr/etc versus the current /etc. The problem with that is that the
policy has different labels for /usr/etc on disk than the real /etc.
The correct fix for this is a bit invasive - we have to take the
physical content of the old /usr/etc, but compare the labels as if
they were really in /etc.
Instead for now, just ignore changes to xattrs. If the file
content/mode changes, then we take the new file (including any changed
xattrs).
Bottom line: just doing chcon -t blah_t /etc/foo.conf may be lost on
upgrade (for now).
This will be used by guestmount - it's WAY faster. We only take disks
as a unit, so it's safe. If the process fails halfway through, we
just start over from scratch the next time anyways.
The trees as shipped come with /usr/etc, which should just be labeled
as usr_t. When we do a deployment, we need to relabel the copies of
the files we're making in /etc.
SELinux support is compile and runtime optional.
The intent of this code I'm fairly certain was to use *.gpg from the
trusted.gpg.d, directory. But right now, we're only using
"pubring.gpg" from that directory, which is odd.
Let's fix this to use all keys ending in .gpg, which will also
include pubring.gpg.
Only send _IDLE messages if and only if we state transition the main
thread (from idle -> !idle or !idle -> idle). This ensures that we
don't send IDLE, then get it back, and process that when we're !idle.
This is a redesign (again) of the pull code. It is simpler and
survives 20 minutes of testing in a loop, whereas the old code would
only go from 30 seconds to 2 minutes.
The problem with the old code was that there was a race where we might
determine idle state even when there are content requests in flight
between the metadata thread and the main one.
This code majorly reworks things - there's now only one IDLE message,
sent in a circle from the main thread, through the metadata scanner,
and back to the main one.
Crucially it's only sent when the *main* thread is idle. Previously
we were looking at whether the metadata scanner is idle, but that
doesn't make a lot of sense. First let's make sure the main thread is
idle, then verify that the metadata one is.
This closes the loop because we'll have ensured we get any pending
requests.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706456
The "ordered hash" code was really just for kernel arguments. And it
turns out it needs to be a multihash (for e.g. multiple console=
arguments).
So turn the OstreeOrderedHash into OstreeKernelArgs, and move the bits
to split key=value and such into there.
Now we're not making this public API yet - the public OstreeSysroot
just takes char **kargs. To facilitate code reuse between ostree/ and
libostree/, make it a noinst libtool library. It'll be duplicated in
the binary and library, but that's OK for now. We can investigate
making OstreeKernelArgs public later.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721136
The official way to add bootloader arguments to the current deployment
is to redeploy with --karg. However, doing so tripped up an
optimization made inside the deployment code to just swap the
bootlinks if we're keeping the same "bootcsum".
Change this optimization to look at the pair of (bootcsum, options).
We can't use #ifdef in the headers, since then g-ir-scanner won't pick
up the functions (unless we included config.h). Let's instead always
have the symbols, but just set an error if we were built without
support for it, just like how pull works.
Colin Walters
Daniel Drake