The chroot caps restriction disallows chroot'ed processes from running
any command that requires `CAP_SYS_ADMIN`, breaking `nixos-rebuild`. See
e.g., https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/15293
This significantly weakens chroot protections, but to break
nixos-rebuild out of the box is too severe.
The list of public proxies is updated now and again and it's probably a
good idea to always work from the most recent list, rather than the one
that is shipped with the release. This can be crucial in case of
resolvers that are revealed to have gone rogue or otherwise have been
compromised.
As @edolstra pointed out that the kernel module might be painful to
maintain. I strongly disagree because it's only a small module and it's
good to have such a canary in the tests no matter how the bootup process
looks like, so I'm going the masochistic route and try to maintain it.
If it *really* becomes too much maintenance burden, we can still drop or
disable kcanary.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
We don't want to push out a channel update whenever this test fails,
because that might have unexpected and confused side effects and it
*really* means that stage 1 of our boot up is broken.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
We already have a small regression test for #15226 within the swraid
installer test. Unfortunately, we only check there whether the md
kthread got signalled but not whether other rampaging processes are
still alive that *should* have been killed.
So in order to do this we provide multiple canary processes which are
checked after the system has booted up:
* canary1: It's a simple forking daemon which just sleeps until it's
going to be killed. Of course we expect this process to not
be alive anymore after boot up.
* canary2: Similar to canary1, but tries to mimick a kthread to make
sure that it's going to be properly killed at the end of
stage 1.
* canary3: Like canary2, but this time using a @ in front of its
command name to actually prevent it from being killed.
* kcanary: This one is a real kthread and it runs until killed, which
shouldn't be the case.
Tested with and without 67223ee and everything works as expected, at
least on my machine.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This is a regression test for #15226, so that the test will fail once we
accidentally kill one or more of the md kthreads (aka: if safe mode is
enabled).
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Unfortunately, pkill doesn't distinguish between kernel and user space
processes, so we need to make sure we don't accidentally kill kernel
threads.
Normally, a kernel thread ignores all signals, but there are a few that
do. A quick grep on the kernel source tree (as of kernel 4.6.0) shows
the following source files which use allow_signal():
drivers/isdn/mISDN/l1oip_core.c
drivers/md/md.c
drivers/misc/mic/cosm/cosm_scif_server.c
drivers/misc/mic/cosm_client/cosm_scif_client.c
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/sdio.c
drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_cmd.c
drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_cmd.c
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target.c
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_login.c
drivers/target/iscsi/iscsi_target_nego.c
drivers/usb/atm/usbatm.c
drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_mass_storage.c
fs/jffs2/background.c
fs/lockd/clntlock.c
fs/lockd/svc.c
fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
While not all of these are necessarily kthreads and some functionality
may still be unimpeded, it's still quite harmful and can cause
unexpected side-effects, especially because some of these kthreads are
storage-related (which we obviously don't want to kill during bootup).
During discussion at #15226, @dezgeg suggested the following
implementation:
for pid in $(pgrep -v -f '@'); do
if [ "$(cat /proc/$pid/cmdline)" != "" ]; then
kill -9 "$pid"
fi
done
This has a few downsides:
* User space processes which use an empty string in their command line
won't be killed.
* It results in errors during bootup because some shell-related
processes are already terminated (maybe it's pgrep itself, haven't
checked).
* The @ is searched within the full command line, not just at the
beginning of the string. Of course, we already had this until now, so
it's not a problem of his implementation.
I posted an alternative implementation which doesn't suffer from the
first point, but even that one wasn't sufficient:
for pid in $(pgrep -v -f '^@'); do
readlink "/proc/$pid/exe" &> /dev/null || continue
echo "$pid"
done | xargs kill -9
This one spawns a subshell, which would be included in the processes to
kill and actually kills itself during the process.
So what we have now is even checking whether the shell process itself is
in the list to kill and avoids killing it just to be sure.
Also, we don't spawn a subshell anymore and use /proc/$pid/exe to
distinguish between user space and kernel processes like in the comments
of the following StackOverflow answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/12231039
We don't need to take care of terminating processes, because what we
actually want IS to terminate the processes.
The only point where this (and any previous) approach falls short if we
have processes that act like fork bombs, because they might spawn
additional processes between the pgrep and the killing. We can only
address this with process/control groups and this still won't save us
because the root user can escape from that as well.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Fixes: #15226
Instead of using this option, please modify the dovecot package by means of an
override. For example:
nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = super: {
dovecot = super.dovecot.override { withPgSQL = true; };
};
Closes https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/14097.
Just removing the system argument because it doesn't exist (it's
actually config.nixpkgs.system, which we're already using). We won't get
an error anyway if we're not actually using it, so this is just an
aesthetics fix.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Make sure that we always have everything available within the store of
the VM, so let's evaluate/build the test container fully on the host
system and propagate all dependencies to the VM.
This way, even if there are additional default dependencies that come
with containers in the future we should be on the safe side as these
dependencies should now be included for the test as well.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
Cc: @kampfschlaefer, @edolstra
This partially reverts f2d24b9840.
Instead of disabling the channels via removing the channel mapping from
the tests themselves, let's just explicitly reference the stable test in
release.nix. That way it's still possible to run the beta and dev tests
via something like "nix-build nixos/tests/chromium.nix -A beta" and
achieve the same effect of not building beta and dev versions on Hydra.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
It's not the job of Nixpkgs to distribute beta versions of upstream
packages. More importantly, building these delays channel updates by
several hours, which is bad for our security fix turnaround time.
* Perform HTTP HEAD request instead of full GET (lighter weight)
* Don't log output of curl to the journal (it's noise/debug)
* Use explicit http:// URL scheme
* Reduce poll interval from 10s to 2s (respond to state changes
quicker). Probably not relevant on boot (lots of services compete for
the CPU), but online service restarts/reloads should be quicker.
* Pass --fail to curl (should be more robust against false positives)
* Use 4 space indent for shell code.
The current postStart code holds Jenkins off the "started" state until
Jenkins becomes idle. But it should be enough to wait until Jenkins
start handling HTTP requests to consider it "started".
More reasons why the current approach is bad and we should remove it,
from @coreyoconnor in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/14991#issuecomment-216572571:
1. Repeatedly curling for a specific human-readable string to
determine "Active" is fragile. For instance, what happens when jenkins
is localized?
2. The time jenkins takes to initializes is variable. This (at least
used to) depend on the number of jobs and any plugin upgrades requested.
3. Jenkins can be requested to restart from the UI. Which will not
affect the status of the service. This means that the service being
"active" does not imply jenkins is initialized. Downstream services
cannot assume jenkins is initialized if the service is active. Might
as well accept that and remove the initialized test from service
startup.
Fixes#14991.
Regression introduced by dfe608c8a2.
The commit turns the two arguments into one attrset argument so we need
to adapt that to use the new calling convention.
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
This allows to use <olink> tags inside NixOS options to reference
sections from the manual. I've originally introduced it in #14476 to
reference the Taskserver specific documentation from the options
reference but as suggested by @nbp, this was done as a separate pull
request to ensure greater visibility rather than being "hidden" in the
Taskserver branch.
The build time for the manual is around 30s on my machine without this
change and 34s with this change, so it shouldn't have a very big impact
on the build time of the manual.
Olinks between the options reference and the manual now will look like
this:
"More instructions about NixOS in conjuction with Taskserver can be
found in the NixOS manual at Chapter 15, Taskserver."
More documentation about olinks can be found here:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Olinking.html
Acked-by: Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>
A sane backend for recent brother scanners.
Depends on the presence of etc files generated by the
nixos module of the same name.
Supports network scanner specification through the
nixos module.
The Nix store squashfs is stored inside the initrd instead of separately
(cherry picked from commit 976fd407796877b538c470d3a5253ad3e1f7bc68)
Signed-off-by: Domen Kožar <domen@dev.si>
A user noticed the example for `hosts`, took the `mode` permissions literally, and ended up with surprising behavior on their system. Updating the documentation to not reference a real config file which might have real permissions requirements.
