man/systemd-nspawn.xml

@@ -1412,22 +1412,33 @@
         <term><option>--load-credential=</option><replaceable>ID</replaceable>:<replaceable>PATH</replaceable></term>
         <term><option>--set-credential=</option><replaceable>ID</replaceable>:<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable></term>
 
-        <listitem><para>Pass a credential to the container. These two options correspond to the
+        <para>Pass a credential to the container. These two options correspond to the
         <varname>LoadCredential=</varname> and <varname>SetCredential=</varname> settings in unit files. See
         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for
         details about these concepts, as well as the syntax of the option's arguments.</para>
 
-        <para>Note: when <command>systemd-nspawn</command> runs as systemd system service it can propagate
-        the credentials it received via <varname>LoadCredential=</varname>/<varname>SetCredential=</varname>
-        to the container payload. A systemd service manager running as PID 1 in the container can further
-        propagate them to the services it itself starts. It is thus possible to easily propagate credentials
-        from a parent service manager to a container manager service and from there into its payload. This
-        can even be done recursively.</para>
+        <para>Note:</para>
 
-        <para>In order to embed binary data into the credential data for <option>--set-credential=</option>
-        use C-style escaping (i.e. <literal>\n</literal> to embed a newline, or <literal>\x00</literal> to
-        embed a <constant>NUL</constant> byte. Note that the invoking shell might already apply unescaping
-        once, hence this might require double escaping!).</para></listitem>
+        <orderedlist>
+          <listitem><para>When <command>systemd-nspawn</command> runs as systemd system service it can make
+          use and propagate credentials it received via
+          <varname>LoadCredential=</varname>/<varname>SetCredential=</varname> to the container
+          payload.</para></listitem>
+
+          <listitem><para>A systemd service manager running as PID 1 in the container can make use of
+          credentials passed in this way, and propagate them further to services it itself
+          runs.</para></listitem>
+        </orderedlist>
+
+        <para>Thus it is possible to easily propagate credentials from a host service manager to a
+        <command>systemd-nspawn</command> service and from there into its payload and services running within
+        it.</para>
+
+        <para>In order to embed binary data into
+        the credential data for <option>--set-credential=</option> use C-style escaping
+        (i.e. <literal>\n</literal> to embed a newline, or <literal>\x00</literal> to embed a NUL byte. Note
+        that the invoking shell might already apply unescaping once, hence this might require double
+        escaping!).</para>
         </varlistentry>
 
     </variablelist>

src/core/execute.c

@@ -2429,7 +2429,11 @@ static int write_credential(
                 return -errno;
 
         if (uid_is_valid(uid) && uid != getuid()) {
-                r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, ACL_READ);
+#if HAVE_ACL
+                r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, /* read = */ true, /* write = */ false, /* execute = */ false);
+#else
+                r = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+#endif
                 if (r < 0) {
                         if (!ERRNO_IS_NOT_SUPPORTED(r) && !ERRNO_IS_PRIVILEGE(r))
                                 return r;
@@ -2545,7 +2549,11 @@ static int acquire_credentials(
          * accessible */
 
         if (uid_is_valid(uid) && uid != getuid()) {
-                r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(dfd, uid, ACL_READ | ACL_EXECUTE);
+#if HAVE_ACL
+                r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(dfd, uid, /* read = */ true, /* write = */ false, /* execute = */ true);
+#else
+                r = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+#endif
                 if (r < 0) {
                         if (!ERRNO_IS_NOT_SUPPORTED(r) && !ERRNO_IS_PRIVILEGE(r))
                                 return r;

src/coredump/coredump.c

@@ -186,9 +186,9 @@ static int fix_acl(int fd, uid_t uid) {
                 return 0;
 
         /* Make sure normal users can read (but not write or delete) their own coredumps */
-        r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, ACL_READ);
+        r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, /* read = */ true, /* write = */ false, /* execute = */ false);
         if (r < 0)
-                return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to adjust ACL of the coredump: %m");
+                return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to adjust ACL of coredump: %m");
 #endif
 
         return 0;

src/journal/journald-server.c

@@ -247,15 +247,16 @@ static bool uid_for_system_journal(uid_t uid) {
 }
 
 static void server_add_acls(JournalFile *f, uid_t uid) {
+#if HAVE_ACL
+        int r;
+#endif
         assert(f);
 
 #if HAVE_ACL
-        int r;
-
         if (uid_for_system_journal(uid))
                 return;
 
-        r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(f->fd, uid, ACL_READ);
+        r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(f->fd, uid, /* read = */ true, /* write = */ false, /* execute = */ false);
         if (r < 0)
                 log_warning_errno(r, "Failed to set ACL on %s, ignoring: %m", f->path);
 #endif

src/shared/acl-util.c

@@ -378,20 +378,12 @@ int acls_for_file(const char *path, acl_type_t type, acl_t new, acl_t *acl) {
         return 0;
 }
 
-/* POSIX says that ACL_{READ,WRITE,EXECUTE} don't have to be bitmasks. But that is a natural thing to do and
- * all extant implementations do it. Let's make sure that we fail verbosely in the (imho unlikely) scenario
- * that we get a new implementation that does not satisfy this. */
-assert_cc(!(ACL_READ & ACL_WRITE));
-assert_cc(!(ACL_WRITE & ACL_EXECUTE));
-assert_cc(!(ACL_EXECUTE & ACL_READ));
-assert_cc((unsigned) ACL_READ == ACL_READ);
-assert_cc((unsigned) ACL_WRITE == ACL_WRITE);
-assert_cc((unsigned) ACL_EXECUTE == ACL_EXECUTE);
-
 int fd_add_uid_acl_permission(
                 int fd,
                 uid_t uid,
-                unsigned mask) {
+                bool rd,
+                bool wr,
+                bool ex) {
 
         _cleanup_(acl_freep) acl_t acl = NULL;
         acl_permset_t permset;
@@ -419,11 +411,11 @@ int fd_add_uid_acl_permission(
         if (acl_get_permset(entry, &permset) < 0)
                 return -errno;
 
-        if ((mask & ACL_READ) && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_READ) < 0)
+        if (rd && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_READ) < 0)
                 return -errno;
-        if ((mask & ACL_WRITE) && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_WRITE) < 0)
+        if (wr && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_WRITE) < 0)
                 return -errno;
-        if ((mask & ACL_EXECUTE) && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_EXECUTE) < 0)
+        if (ex && acl_add_perm(permset, ACL_EXECUTE) < 0)
                 return -errno;
 
         r = calc_acl_mask_if_needed(&acl);

src/shared/acl-util.h

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ */
 #pragma once
 
-#include <errno.h>
-#include <unistd.h>
-
 #if HAVE_ACL
+
 #include <acl/libacl.h>
 #include <stdbool.h>
 #include <sys/acl.h>
@@ -17,7 +15,7 @@ int add_base_acls_if_needed(acl_t *acl_p, const char *path);
 int acl_search_groups(const char* path, char ***ret_groups);
 int parse_acl(const char *text, acl_t *acl_access, acl_t *acl_default, bool want_mask);
 int acls_for_file(const char *path, acl_type_t type, acl_t new, acl_t *acl);
-int fd_add_uid_acl_permission(int fd, uid_t uid, unsigned mask);
+int fd_add_uid_acl_permission(int fd, uid_t uid, bool rd, bool wr, bool ex);
 
 /* acl_free takes multiple argument types.
  * Multiple cleanup functions are necessary. */
@@ -29,12 +27,4 @@ DEFINE_TRIVIAL_CLEANUP_FUNC(uid_t*, acl_free_uid_tp);
 #define acl_free_gid_tp acl_free
 DEFINE_TRIVIAL_CLEANUP_FUNC(gid_t*, acl_free_gid_tp);
 
-#else
-#define ACL_READ    0x04
-#define ACL_WRITE   0x02
-#define ACL_EXECUTE 0x01
-
-static inline int fd_add_uid_acl_permission(int fd, uid_t uid, unsigned mask) {
-        return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-}
 #endif

src/shared/dissect-image.c

@@ -998,17 +998,14 @@ static int mount_partition(
         assert(m);
         assert(where);
 
-        /* Use decrypted node and matching fstype if available, otherwise use the original device */
         node = m->decrypted_node ?: m->node;
-        fstype = m->decrypted_node ? m->decrypted_fstype: m->fstype;
+        fstype = m->decrypted_fstype ?: m->fstype;
 
-        if (!m->found || !node)
+        if (!m->found || !node || !fstype)
                 return 0;
-        if (!fstype)
-                return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
 
         /* We are looking at an encrypted partition? This either means stacked encryption, or the caller didn't call dissected_image_decrypt() beforehand. Let's return a recognizable error for this case. */
-        if (streq(fstype, "crypto_LUKS"))
+        if (streq_ptr(fstype, "crypto_LUKS"))
                 return -EUNATCH;
 
         rw = m->rw && !(flags & DISSECT_IMAGE_READ_ONLY);
@@ -1084,7 +1081,6 @@ int dissected_image_mount(DissectedImage *m, const char *where, uid_t uid_shift,
          *  -EUNATCH      → Encrypted partition found for which no dm-crypt was set up yet
          *  -EUCLEAN      → fsck for file system failed
          *  -EBUSY        → File system already mounted/used elsewhere (kernel)
-         *  -EAFNOSUPPORT → File system type not supported or not known
          */
 
         if (!m->partitions[PARTITION_ROOT].found)
@@ -1191,8 +1187,6 @@ int dissected_image_mount_and_warn(DissectedImage *m, const char *where, uid_t u
                 return log_error_errno(r, "File system check on image failed.");
         if (r == -EBUSY)
                 return log_error_errno(r, "File system already mounted elsewhere.");
-        if (r == -EAFNOSUPPORT)
-                return log_error_errno(r, "File system type not supported or not known.");
         if (r < 0)
                 return log_error_errno(r, "Failed to mount image: %m");
 

src/test/test-acl-util.c

@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ static void test_add_acls_for_user(void) {
         } else
                 uid = getuid();
 
-        r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, ACL_READ);
-        log_info_errno(r, "fd_add_uid_acl_permission(%i, "UID_FMT", ACL_READ): %m", fd, uid);
+        r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, true, false, false);
+        log_info_errno(r, "fd_add_uid_acl_permission(%i, "UID_FMT", true, false, false): %m", fd, uid);
         assert_se(r >= 0);
 
         cmd = strjoina("ls -l ", fn);
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static void test_add_acls_for_user(void) {
 
         /* set the acls again */
 
-        r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, ACL_READ);
+        r = fd_add_uid_acl_permission(fd, uid, true, false, false);
         assert_se(r >= 0);
 
         cmd = strjoina("ls -l ", fn);