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diff --git a/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/1222 b/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/1222 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ed22b50b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/1222 @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +/proc/self/exe not handled in execve +Description of problem: +I am submitting this issue to track an issue for which it seems there have been a couple of patchsets (unsuccessfully) submitted. I am not able to give a detailed analysis of the problem as I am not aware of exactly what the issue is - I am raising this issue to attempt to bring one of these changes upstream as it seems there is a genuine bug here (hence multiple attempts to fix) but no tracking bug or attention. It's also causing my project to require a custom fork of qemu just for this. + +My (laymans) understanding of the bug is that golang can escape the emulation environment when it execs something to do with `execve /proc/self/exe`. Here is an excerpt from my internal docs from someone who has left the project, sorry I cannot be of more use... + +> Unfortunately, to run podman/buildah/skopeo using qemu-user (which just runs a single binary +> emulated, as opposed to qemu-system which runs an entire system but is harder to automate in +> toolchains) we need these patches because of a peculiar thing many golang applications do. They +> re-execute themselves using the execve syscall using /proc/self/exe as the executable. In +> non-emulated contexts this is fine, but in emulated contexts /proc/self/exe is actually the +> top-level emulator process and _not_ podman/buildah/skopeo. This causes all container storage +> operations to mysteriously fail, because the wrong binary is being executed. This issue was quite +> difficult to root cause. +Additional information: +Old patchsets that seem to be trying to fix this: +- http://next.patchew.org/QEMU/20210531055019.10149-1-yamamoto@midokura.com/20210531055019.10149-2-yamamoto@midokura.com/ +- https://patchew.org/QEMU/20190916155545.29928-1-olivier.dion@polymtl.ca/ +- https://patchew.org/QEMU/20190807135458.32440-1-dion@linutronix.de/ + +It seems that this github issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42080 references the same issue. |