static bool enable_name_policy(...) in ./src/udev/net/link-config.c
calls proc_cmdline(...) to get "line" initialized, but
proc_cmdline(...) does not guarantee that atleast when both
conditions (detect_container(NULL) > 0) and
read_full_file(...) returned < 0.
static int killall(....) in ./src/core/killall.c tries to get "s"
initialized by calling get_process_comm(...) which calls
read_one_line_file(...) which if it fails will mean it is left
uninitialized.
It is then used in argument to strna(s) call where it is
dereferenced(!), in addition to nothing else initializing it before
the scope it is in finishes.
static int client_send_request(...) in
./src/libsystemd-network/sd-dhcp-client.c tries to initialize
"request" by calling client_message_init(...), which has atleast
5 error cases where it can return without that happening.
This leads to the function finishing without "request" being initialized.
When enabled in [Network] it will set up a dhcp server on the interface, listening
on one of its statically configured IPv4 addresses and with a fixed size pool of
leases determined from it.
Example:
[Match]
Name=ve-arch-tree
[Network]
Address=192.168.12.5/24
DHCPServer=yes
[Route]
Gateway=192.168.12.5
Destination=192.168.12.0/24
In this case we will configure ve-arch-tree with the address 192.168.12.5 and
hand out addresses in the range 192.168.12.6 - 192.168.12.38.
In the future, we should (as suggested by Lennart) introduce a syntax to pick the
server address automatically.
For this to work nicely we need to use REUSEADDR so that more than one socket
can be open at the same time. Also, we request the ifindex to be appended
to incoming messages, so we know whence it came.
This new condition allows checking whether /etc or /var are out-of-date
relative to /usr. This is the counterpart for the update flag managed by
systemd-update-done.service. Services that want to be started once after
/usr got updated should use:
[Unit]
ConditionNeedsUpdate=/etc
Before=systemd-update-done.service
This makes sure that they are only run if /etc is out-of-date relative
to /usr. And that it will be executed after systemd-update-done.service
which is responsible for marking /etc up-to-date relative to the current
/usr.
ConditionNeedsUpdate= will also checks whether /etc is actually
writable, and not trigger if it isn't, since no update is possible then.
In order to support offline updates to /usr, we need to be able to run
certain tasks on next boot-up to bring /etc and /var in line with the
updated /usr. Hence, let's devise a mechanism how we can detect whether
/etc or /var are not up-to-date with /usr anymore: we keep "touch
files" in /etc/.updated and /var/.updated that are mtime-compared with
/usr. This means:
Whenever the vendor OS tree in /usr is updated, and any services that
shall be executed at next boot shall be triggered, it is sufficient to
update the mtime of /usr itself. At next boot, if /etc/.updated and/or
/var/.updated is older than than /usr (or missing), we know we have to
run the update tools once. After that is completed we need to update the
mtime of these files to the one of /usr, to keep track that we made the
necessary updates, and won't repeat them on next reboot.
A subsequent commit adds a new ConditionNeedsUpdate= condition that
allows checking on boot whether /etc or /var are outdated and need
updating.
This is an early step to allow booting up with an empty /etc, with
automatic rebuilding of the necessary cache files or user databases
therein, as well as supporting later updates of /usr that then propagate
to /etc and /var again.
We install two sysctl snippets ourselves, hence the condition will
always trigger, so no point in tryng to optimize things with this, it
just will make things slower, if anything.
There's no point in conditionalizing systemd-tmpfiles at boot, since we
ship tmpfiles snippets ourselves, hence they will always trigger anyway.
Also, there's no reason to pull in local-fs.target from the service,
hence drop that.
systemd-sysusers is a tool to reconstruct /etc/passwd and /etc/group
from static definition files that take a lot of inspiration from
tmpfiles snippets. These snippets should carry information about system
users only. To make sure it is not misused for normal users these
snippets only allow configuring UID and gecos field for each user, but
do not allow configuration of the home directory or shell, which is
necessary for real login users.
The purpose of this tool is to enable state-less systems that can
populate /etc with the minimal files necessary, solely from static data
in /usr. systemd-sysuser is additive only, and will never override
existing users.
This tool will create these files directly, and not via some user
database abtsraction layer. This is appropriate as this tool is supposed
to run really early at boot, and is only useful for creating system
users, and system users cannot be stored in remote databases anyway.
The tool is also useful to be invoked from RPM scriptlets, instead of
useradd. This allows moving from imperative user descriptions in RPM to
declarative descriptions.
The UID/GID for a user/group to be created can either be chosen dynamic,
or fixed, or be read from the owner of a file in the file system, in
order to support reconstructing the correct IDs for files that shall be
owned by them.
This also adds a minimal user definition file, that should be
sufficient for most basic systems. Distributions are expected to patch
these files and augment the contents, for example with fixed UIDs for
the users where that's necessary.
There might be implementations around where the network-online logic
might not talk to any network configuration service (and thus not have
to wait for it), hence let's explicitly order network-online.target
after network.target to avoid any ambiguities.
