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Make /var/empty immutable (with chattr +i) #18365

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See #18358 and #14910 what bugs these caused.

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edolstra commented Sep 6, 2016

No, don't make it a link to the Nix store! Paths in the Nix store can have group = nixbld, which will probably cause sshd to fail. Just do chattr +i /var/empty.

Also, /var/empty is not a GC root, which might cause problems.

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@edolstra updated

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Just a side note: lots of these mkdir -m commands claim to be idempotent, but they're really not since permissions are not reset if directory exists.

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groxxda commented Sep 6, 2016

Could we use a tmpfs with size=0,mode=000?

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@groxxda what advantage would that have over chattr +i?

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groxxda commented Sep 6, 2016

@domenkozar it's probably just me not being a fan of chattr 😉
only advantage I can think of is file-system support. But it's probably not relevant because nobody has /var on a tmpfs

btw: Does your patch work when run twice?

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Make /var/empty immutable
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Fixes #14910 and #18358

Deployed to an existing server, restarted sshd and polkit to verify
they don't fail.
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@groxxda it did, but I pushed a fix for rm: cannot remove '/var/empty': Operation not permitted

@grahamc grahamc changed the title Make /var/empty immutable (symlink to nix store) Make /var/empty immutable (with chattr +i) Sep 7, 2016
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grahamc commented Sep 7, 2016

(Updated the title to reflect the solution)

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@edolstra any objections?

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mkdir -m 1777 -p /var/tmp

# Make sure it's really empty
chattr -i /var/empty
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This introduces a race during activation where /var/empty doesn't exist. So for example, if it gets interrupted at that point, you won't be able to log in via ssh anymore.

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@edolstra fixed

@edolstra edolstra merged commit 70be99c into master Sep 7, 2016
@peti peti deleted the fix-sshd-failure branch September 7, 2016 11:39
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@fpletz I've linked two issues in description of the PR for motivation what issues we fix.

I think it's safe to disable this for containers.

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@fpletz here needs to be added chattr -R -f -i: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/tools/virtualization/nixos-container/nixos-container.pl#L248

Any we probably should test if container deletion works in the tests.

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Ah it already is, but doesn't fail: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/40856595/log/raw

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(cherry picked from commit 14c16f2)
Signed-off-by: Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si>
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https://discourse.nixos.org/t/return-container-to-its-original-declared-state/14793/4

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