Let's not leak details from src/shared and src/libsystemd into
src/basic, even though you can't actually do anything useful with
just forward declarations from src/shared.
The sd-forward.h header is put in src/libsystemd/sd-common as we
don't have a directory for shared internal headers for libsystemd
yet.
Let's also rename forward.h to basic-forward.h to keep things
self-explanatory.
On top of taking a directory file descriptor, we use xopenat() so
that the function can also be used to work on existing file
descriptors to image files including all the logic to use O_DIRECT
and fallback to O_RDONLY if needed.
Then, this makes loop_device_open_from_fd() or _from_path() be wrappers
of loop_device_open() with block_device_new_from_fd() or _from_path(),
respectively.
Let's rework how we lock loopback block devices in two ways:
1. Lock a separate fd, instead of the main block device fd. We already
did that for our internal locking when allocating loopback block
devices, but do so for the exposed locking (i.e.
loop_device_flock()), too, so that the lock is independent of the
main fd we actually use of IO.
2. Instead of locking the device during allocation of the loopback
device, then unlocking it (which will make udev run), and then
re-locking things if we need, let's instead just keep the lock the
whole time, to make things a bit safer and faster, and not have to
wait for udev at all. This is done by adding a "lock_op" parameter to
loop device allocation functions that declares the initial state of
the lock, and is one of LOCK_UN/LOCK_SH/LOCK_EX. This change also
shortens a lot of code, since we allocate + immediately lock loopback
devices pretty much everywhere.
When loop devices are re-used, the disk sequence number is increased.
Parse it when creating a loop device and store it.
The kernel will never return DISKSEQ=0, so use it to signal that it's
not supported by the current kernel.
This is similar to the preceding work to store the uevent seqnum, but
this stores the CLOCK_MONOTONIC timestamp.
Why? This allows to validate udev database entries, to determine if they
were created *after* we attached the device.
The uevent seqnum logic allows us to validate uevent, and the timestamp
database entries, hence together we should be able to validate both
sources of truth for us.
(note that this is all racy, just a bit less racy, since we cannot
atomically attach loopback devices and get the timestamp for it, the
same way we can't get the uevent seqnum. Thus is shortens the race
window, but doesn#t close it).
Later, this will allow us to ignore uevents from earlier attachments a
bit better, as we can compare uevent seqnums with this boundary. It's
not a full fix for the race though, since we cannot atomically determine
the uevent and attach the device, but it at least shortens the window a
bit.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
This adds a small tool that may be used to look into OS images, and mount them
to any place. This is mostly a friendlier version of test-dissect-image.c. I am
not sure this should really become a proper command of systemd, hence for now
do not install it into bindir, but simply libexecdir.
This tool is already pretty useful since you can mount image files with it,
honouring the various partitions correctly. I figure this is going to become
more interesting if the dissctor learns luks and verity support.
This adds two new APIs to systemd:
- loop-util.h is a simple internal API for allocating, setting up and releasing
loopback block devices.
- dissect-image.h is an internal API for taking apart disk images and figuring
out what the purpose of each partition is.
Both APIs are basically refactored versions of similar code in nspawn. This
rework should permit us to reuse this in other places than just nspawn in the
future. Specifically: to implement RootImage= in the service image, similar to
RootDirectory=, but operating on a disk image; to unify the gpt-auto-discovery
generator code with the discovery logic in nspawn; to add new API to machined
for determining the OS version of a disk image (i.e. not just running
containers). This PR does not make any such changes however, it just provides
the new reworked API.
The reworked code is also slightly more powerful than the nspawn original one.
When pointing it to an image or block device with a naked file system (i.e. no
partition table) it will simply make it the root device.
