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nspawn: add support for limited dissecting of MBR disk images with nspawn
authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:47:10 +0000 (00:47 +0100)
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:47:10 +0000 (00:47 +0100)
With this change nspawn's -i switch now can now make sense of MBR disk
images too - however only if there's only a single, bootable partition
of type 0x83 on the image. For all other cases we cannot really make
sense from the partition table alone.

The big benefit of this change is that upstream Fedora Cloud Images can
now be booted unmodified with systemd-nspawn:

 # wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/21/Cloud/Images/x86_64/Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.raw.xz
 # unxz Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.raw.xz
 # systemd-nspawn -i Fedora-Cloud-Base-20141203-21.x86_64.raw -b

Next stop: teach the import logic to automatically download these
images, uncompress and verify them.

src/nspawn/nspawn.c

index 2bda27edf07472a5e36650b488c2b43afbc5054b..9fe040c81b6342005e89d72ef98eabdf0edc8c8c 100644 (file)
@@ -2557,6 +2557,12 @@ static int setup_image(char **device_path, int *loop_nr) {
         return r;
 }
 
+#define PARTITION_TABLE_BLURB \
+        "Note that the disk image needs to either contain only a single MBR partition of\n" \
+        "type 0x83 that is marked bootable, or follow\n" \
+        "    http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/\n" \
+        "to be bootable with systemd-nspawn."
+
 static int dissect_image(
                 int fd,
                 char **root_device, bool *root_device_rw,
@@ -2584,6 +2590,7 @@ static int dissect_image(
         blkid_partlist pl;
         struct stat st;
         int r;
+        bool is_gpt, is_mbr;
 
         assert(fd >= 0);
         assert(root_device);
@@ -2612,8 +2619,9 @@ static int dissect_image(
         errno = 0;
         r = blkid_do_safeprobe(b);
         if (r == -2 || r == 1) {
-                log_error("Failed to identify any partition table on %s.\n"
-                          "Note that the disk image needs to follow http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/ to be supported by systemd-nspawn.", arg_image);
+                log_error("Failed to identify any partition table on\n"
+                          "    %s\n"
+                          PARTITION_TABLE_BLURB, arg_image);
                 return -EINVAL;
         } else if (r != 0) {
                 if (errno == 0)
@@ -2623,9 +2631,14 @@ static int dissect_image(
         }
 
         blkid_probe_lookup_value(b, "PTTYPE", &pttype, NULL);
-        if (!streq_ptr(pttype, "gpt")) {
-                log_error("Image %s does not carry a GUID Partition Table.\n"
-                          "Note that the disk image needs to follow http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/ to be supported by systemd-nspawn.", arg_image);
+
+        is_gpt = streq_ptr(pttype, "gpt");
+        is_mbr = streq_ptr(pttype, "dos");
+
+        if (!is_gpt && !is_mbr) {
+                log_error("No GPT or MBR partition table discovered on\n"
+                          "    %s\n"
+                          PARTITION_TABLE_BLURB, arg_image);
                 return -EINVAL;
         }
 
@@ -2665,9 +2678,8 @@ static int dissect_image(
         first = udev_enumerate_get_list_entry(e);
         udev_list_entry_foreach(item, first) {
                 _cleanup_udev_device_unref_ struct udev_device *q;
-                const char *stype, *node;
+                const char *node;
                 unsigned long long flags;
-                sd_id128_t type_id;
                 blkid_partition pp;
                 dev_t qn;
                 int nr;
@@ -2698,81 +2710,117 @@ static int dissect_image(
                         continue;
 
                 flags = blkid_partition_get_flags(pp);
-                if (flags & GPT_FLAG_NO_AUTO)
+                if (is_gpt && (flags & GPT_FLAG_NO_AUTO))
+                        continue;
+                if (is_mbr && (flags != 0x80)) /* Bootable flag */
                         continue;
 
                 nr = blkid_partition_get_partno(pp);
                 if (nr < 0)
                         continue;
 
-                stype = blkid_partition_get_type_string(pp);
-                if (!stype)
-                        continue;
-
-                if (sd_id128_from_string(stype, &type_id) < 0)
-                        continue;
+                if (is_gpt) {
+                        sd_id128_t type_id;
+                        const char *stype;
 
-                if (sd_id128_equal(type_id, GPT_HOME)) {
+                        stype = blkid_partition_get_type_string(pp);
+                        if (!stype)
+                                continue;
 
-                        if (home && nr >= home_nr)
+                        if (sd_id128_from_string(stype, &type_id) < 0)
                                 continue;
 
-                        home_nr = nr;
-                        home_rw = !(flags & GPT_FLAG_READ_ONLY);
+                        if (sd_id128_equal(type_id, GPT_HOME)) {
 
-                        free(home);
-                        home = strdup(node);
-                        if (!home)
-                                return log_oom();
-                } else if (sd_id128_equal(type_id, GPT_SRV)) {
+                                if (home && nr >= home_nr)
+                                        continue;
 
-                        if (srv && nr >= srv_nr)
-                                continue;
+                                home_nr = nr;
+                                home_rw = !(flags & GPT_FLAG_READ_ONLY);
 
-                        srv_nr = nr;
-                        srv_rw = !(flags & GPT_FLAG_READ_ONLY);
+                                r = free_and_strdup(&home, node);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        return log_oom();
 
-                        free(srv);
-                        srv = strdup(node);
-                        if (!srv)
-                                return log_oom();
-                }
+                        } else if (sd_id128_equal(type_id, GPT_SRV)) {
+
+                                if (srv && nr >= srv_nr)
+                                        continue;
+
+                                srv_nr = nr;
+                                srv_rw = !(flags & GPT_FLAG_READ_ONLY);
+
+                                r = free_and_strdup(&srv, node);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        return log_oom();
+                        }
 #ifdef GPT_ROOT_NATIVE
-                else if (sd_id128_equal(type_id, GPT_ROOT_NATIVE)) {
+                        else if (sd_id128_equal(type_id, GPT_ROOT_NATIVE)) {
 
-                        if (root && nr >= root_nr)
-                                continue;
+                                if (root && nr >= root_nr)
+                                        continue;
 
-                        root_nr = nr;
-                        root_rw = !(flags & GPT_FLAG_READ_ONLY);
+                                root_nr = nr;
+                                root_rw = !(flags & GPT_FLAG_READ_ONLY);
 
-                        free(root);
-                        root = strdup(node);
-                        if (!root)
-                                return log_oom();
-                }
+                                r = free_and_strdup(&root, node);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        return log_oom();
+                        }
 #endif
 #ifdef GPT_ROOT_SECONDARY
-                else if (sd_id128_equal(type_id, GPT_ROOT_SECONDARY)) {
+                        else if (sd_id128_equal(type_id, GPT_ROOT_SECONDARY)) {
+
+                                if (secondary_root && nr >= secondary_root_nr)
+                                        continue;
+
+                                secondary_root_nr = nr;
+                                secondary_root_rw = !(flags & GPT_FLAG_READ_ONLY);
+
+                                r = free_and_strdup(&secondary_root, node);
+                                if (r < 0)
+                                        return log_oom();
+                        }
+#endif
+
+                } else if (is_mbr) {
+                        int type;
 
-                        if (secondary_root && nr >= secondary_root_nr)
+                        type = blkid_partition_get_type(pp);
+                        if (type != 0x83) /* Linux partition */
                                 continue;
 
-                        secondary_root_nr = nr;
-                        secondary_root_rw = !(flags & GPT_FLAG_READ_ONLY);
+                        /* Note that there's a certain, intended
+                         * asymmetry here: while for GPT we simply
+                         * take the first valid partition and ignore
+                         * all others of the same type, for MBR we
+                         * fail if there are multiple suitable
+                         * partitions. This is because the GPT
+                         * partition types are defined by us, and
+                         * hence we can define their lookup semantics,
+                         * while for the MBR logic we reuse existing
+                         * definitions, and simply don't want to make
+                         * out the situation. */
+
+                        if (root) {
+                                log_error("Identified multiple bootable Linux 0x83 partitions on\n"
+                                          "    %s\n"
+                                          PARTITION_TABLE_BLURB, arg_image);
+                                return -EINVAL;
+                        }
 
+                        root_nr = nr;
 
-                        free(secondary_root);
-                        secondary_root = strdup(node);
-                        if (!secondary_root)
+                        r = free_and_strdup(&root, node);
+                        if (r < 0)
                                 return log_oom();
                 }
-#endif
         }
 
         if (!root && !secondary_root) {
-                log_error("Failed to identify root partition in disk image %s.\n"
-                          "Note that the disk image needs to follow http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/ to be supported by systemd-nspawn.", arg_image);
+                log_error("Failed to identify root partition in disk image\n"
+                          "    %s\n"
+                          PARTITION_TABLE_BLURB, arg_image);
                 return -EINVAL;
         }