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Author SHA1 Message Date
David Thompson
bc459b617f tests: containers: Skip if setgroups file does not exist.
Fixes bug #21226.

Linux 3.19 introduced a fix for a security vulnerability in user namespaces.
This fix introduced a new proc file called 'setgroups' and was backported to
many older kernels.  However, some users run a kernel that is new enough to
support user namespaces yet old enough to not include the patch, so we must
skip the tests.

* tests/containers.scm: Skip all tests if /proc/self/setgroups does not exist.
2015-08-11 08:30:28 -04:00
David Thompson
831bc1468e build: container: Add #:host-uids argument to call-with-container.
It's not always possible to map 65536 uids when creating a container as the
root user within another user namespace.  This is true when building Guix
within the build daemon's container.  By using a uid range of 1 by default,
even as the root user, the tests now pass.

* gnu/build/linux-container.scm (initialize-user-namespace, run-container):
  Add 'host-uids' argument.
  (call-with-container): Add #:host-uids keyword argument.
* tests/containers.scm ("container-excursion"): Update 'run-container' call.
2015-08-08 14:04:13 -04:00
David Thompson
8bff3d1e44 tests: Skip container tests if namespaces are not available.
* tests/containers.scm: Skip all tests if user namespaces do not exist.
2015-07-20 12:05:23 -04:00
David Thompson
c1f6a0c2ed gnu: build: Add Linux container module.
* gnu/build/linux-container.scm: New file.
* gnu-system.am (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it.
* .dir-locals.el: Add Scheme indent rules for 'call-with-container', and
  'container-excursion'.
* tests/containers.scm: New file.
* Makefile.am (SCM_TESTS): Add it.
2015-07-09 08:23:03 -04:00