From: Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix create thread failed in unprivileged process [BZ #28287]
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 00:03:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c21e3dc8-10c6-9a71-08ba-39e3b9352088@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOrEP8N1VYgNiqpOaqYaO2rptXiSJTjWJf81VRWQhzoirw@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/29/21 11:20 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> [Please note: This e-mail is from an EXTERNAL e-mail address]
>
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 7:50 AM Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com> wrote:
>> On 8/29/21 10:43 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>> [Please note: This e-mail is from an EXTERNAL e-mail address]
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 7:12 AM Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com> wrote:
>>>> On 8/29/21 9:47 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>>> [Please note: This e-mail is from an EXTERNAL e-mail address]
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 6:29 AM Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia@windriver.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Since commit [d8ea0d0168 Add an internal wrapper for clone, clone2 and clone3]
>>>>>> applied, start a unprivileged container (docker run without --privileged),
>>>>>> it creates a thread failed in container.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In commit d8ea0d0168, it calls __clone3 if HAVE_CLONE3_WAPPER is defined. If
>>>>>> __clone3 returns -1 with ENOSYS, fall back to clone or clone2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As known from [1], cloneXXX fails with EPERM if CLONE_NEWCGROUP,
>>>>>> CLONE_NEWIPC, CLONE_NEWNET, CLONE_NEWNS, CLONE_NEWPID, or CLONE_NEWUTS
>>>>>> was specified by an unprivileged process (process without CAP_SYS_ADMIN)
>>>>> I don't think the description is accurate. In your test, none
>>>>> of the mentioned flags are used directly. The real bug is
>>>>> that the container you used blocks the normal clone3 and
>>>>> sets errno to EPERM. The question is if/how glibc should
>>>>> work arounds the clone3 bug in containers. We want to add
>>>>> a public clone3 wrapper to glibc in the future. But before we
>>>>> do that, all these containers should be changed to ENOSYS
>>>>> if clone3 is blocked.
>>>> You mean I should fix the container (here is the docker I used) to correct
>>>> EPERM to ENOSYS in this situation, but for the released/old docker,
>>>> the pthread_create still does not work with glibc 2.34 in unprivileged mode.
>>>>
>>>> In other word, should the new glibc consider backward compatibility with
>>>> others?
>>> I don't think we should hide the container bug in glibc. Will a glibc tunable
>>> to disable the clone3 wrapper work here?
>> Yes, that's my plan B, disable it by removing the macro definition of
>> HAVE_CLONE3_WRAPPER in our Yocto's glibc
>>
> This is an option. But this is not what I meant. We can add
>
> $ export GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.syscall=disable_clone3
>
> to disable the clone3 wrapper.
Thank you very much, setting an environment is better than applying an
patch to sources
but unfortunately, I set 'export
GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.syscall=disable_clone3' in my glibc build
environment, but it seems not work,
the issue still exists. I also apply it in my runtime container, it does
not work neither.
My build environment is a Yocto project that supports cross compiling, I
am not familiar with GLIBC_TUNABLES setting,
with a simple search in glibc sources, I do not find clues about
glibc.syscall=disable_clone3
//Hongxu
//
>
> --
> H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-29 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-29 13:29 Hongxu Jia
2021-08-29 13:47 ` H.J. Lu
2021-08-29 14:12 ` Hongxu Jia
2021-08-29 14:43 ` H.J. Lu
2021-08-29 14:50 ` Hongxu Jia
2021-08-29 15:20 ` H.J. Lu
2021-08-29 16:03 ` Hongxu Jia [this message]
2021-08-29 16:57 ` H.J. Lu
2021-08-29 14:46 ` Hongxu Jia
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