From: Filip Schauer <f.schauer@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH container] fix #7267: do not inherit host attributes for rootfs
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:54:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260128165406.308592-1-f.schauer@proxmox.com> (raw)
With the introduction of 0db559517ac6 (mountpoint_insert_staged: inherit
attributes if directory already exists) mountpoints started preserving
attributes of the underlying directory they were mounted over. This also
unintentionally applied to the rootfs, causing "/" inside the container
to be owned by "nobody".
This commit exempts the rootfs from the attribute preservation, to avoid
inheriting attributes from the host.
Signed-off-by: Filip Schauer <f.schauer@proxmox.com>
---
src/PVE/LXC.pm | 18 ++++++++++--------
src/lxc-pve-prestart-hook | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/PVE/LXC.pm b/src/PVE/LXC.pm
index bab27b8..2df0e6c 100644
--- a/src/PVE/LXC.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/LXC.pm
@@ -2121,7 +2121,7 @@ sub mountpoint_stage {
}
sub mountpoint_insert_staged {
- my ($mount_fd, $rootdir_fd, $mp_dir, $opt, $root_uid, $root_gid) = @_;
+ my ($mount_fd, $rootdir_fd, $mp_dir, $opt, $root_uid, $root_gid, $keep_attrs) = @_;
if (!defined($rootdir_fd)) {
sysopen($rootdir_fd, '.', O_PATH | O_DIRECTORY)
@@ -2130,12 +2130,14 @@ sub mountpoint_insert_staged {
my $dest_fd = walk_tree_nofollow_fd('/', $rootdir_fd, $mp_dir, 1, $root_uid, $root_gid);
- # Preserve attributes of destination directory
- my ($mode, $uid, $gid) = (stat($dest_fd))[2, 4, 5];
- PVE::Tools::fchownat(fileno($mount_fd), '', $uid, $gid, PVE::Tools::AT_EMPTY_PATH)
- or die "failed to propagate uid and gid to mountpoint: $!\n";
- PVE::Tools::fchmodat(fileno($mount_fd), '.', $mode, 0)
- or die "failed to propagate access mode to mountpoint: $!\n";
+ if ($keep_attrs) {
+ # Preserve attributes of destination directory
+ my ($mode, $uid, $gid) = (stat($dest_fd))[2, 4, 5];
+ PVE::Tools::fchownat(fileno($mount_fd), '', $uid, $gid, PVE::Tools::AT_EMPTY_PATH)
+ or die "failed to propagate uid and gid to mountpoint: $!\n";
+ PVE::Tools::fchmodat(fileno($mount_fd), '.', $mode, 0)
+ or die "failed to propagate access mode to mountpoint: $!\n";
+ }
PVE::Tools::move_mount(
fileno($mount_fd),
@@ -2476,7 +2478,7 @@ sub mountpoint_hotplug : prototype($$$$$) {
chdir('/')
or die "failed to change root directory within the container's mount namespace: $!\n";
- mountpoint_insert_staged($mount_fd, undef, $mp->{mp}, $opt, $root_uid, $root_gid);
+ mountpoint_insert_staged($mount_fd, undef, $mp->{mp}, $opt, $root_uid, $root_gid, 1);
});
}
diff --git a/src/lxc-pve-prestart-hook b/src/lxc-pve-prestart-hook
index 41af242..d264ab9 100755
--- a/src/lxc-pve-prestart-hook
+++ b/src/lxc-pve-prestart-hook
@@ -95,11 +95,12 @@ PVE::LXC::Tools::lxc_hook(
$mountpoint, $dir, $storage_cfg, undef, $root_uid, $root_gid,
);
- my ($dest_dir, $dest_base_fd);
+ my ($dest_dir, $dest_base_fd, $keep_attrs);
if ($rootdir_fd) {
# Mount relative to the rootdir fd.
$dest_base_fd = $rootdir_fd;
$dest_dir = './' . $mountpoint->{mp};
+ $keep_attrs = 1;
} else {
# Assert that 'rootfs' is the first one:
die "foreach_mount() error\n" if $opt ne 'rootfs';
@@ -109,10 +110,11 @@ PVE::LXC::Tools::lxc_hook(
sysopen($dest_base_fd, '/', O_PATH | O_DIRECTORY)
or die "failed to open '.': $!\n";
$dest_dir = $rootdir;
+ $keep_attrs = 0;
}
PVE::LXC::mountpoint_insert_staged(
- $mount_fd, $dest_base_fd, $dest_dir, $opt, $root_uid, $root_gid,
+ $mount_fd, $dest_base_fd, $dest_dir, $opt, $root_uid, $root_gid, $keep_attrs,
);
# From now on we mount inside our rootfs:
--
2.47.3
next reply other threads:[~2026-01-28 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-28 16:54 Filip Schauer [this message]
2026-01-29 7:18 ` applied: " Fabian Grünbichler
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