Hello,

arm64 fails to build with this patch:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/42/builds/9356/steps/13/logs/stdio
https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/131/builds/4727/steps/13/logs/stdio


On 19/08/2024 18:26:49+0000, Niko Mauno via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> The 2.39 version of util-linux took new file descriptors based mount
> kernel API into use. In relation to this change, the upstream release
> notes in
> https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/blob/v2.39/Documentation/releases/v2.39-ReleaseNotes#L14-L21
> mention that
> 
>   This change is very aggressive to libmount code, but hopefully, it does not 
> introduce regressions in traditional mount(8) behavior.
> 
> After observing following failure when booting a board using a bit
> older 6.1 series kernel together with initramfs rootfs based boot flow
> 
>   [FAILED] Failed to start Remount Root and Kernel File Systems.
>   See 'systemctl status systemd-remount-fs.service' for details.
> 
> closer inspection revealed:
> 
>   demoboard ~ # systemctl status -l systemd-remount-fs.service
>   x systemd-remount-fs.service - Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
>        Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-remount-fs.service; 
> enabled-runtime; preset: disabled)
>        Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2024-08-14 14:53:48 UTC; 
> 1min 22s ago
>          Docs: man:systemd-remount-fs.service(8)
>                
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/APIFileSystems
>       Process: 76 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-remount-fs (code=exited, 
> status=1/FAILURE)
>      Main PID: 76 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> 
>   Aug 14 14:53:48 demoboard systemd-remount-fs[76]: /usr/bin/mount for / 
> exited with exit status 32.
>   Aug 14 14:53:48 demoboard systemd-remount-fs[81]: mount: /: mount point not 
> mounted or bad option.
>   Aug 14 14:53:48 demoboard systemd-remount-fs[81]:        dmesg(1) may have 
> more information after failed mount system call.
>   Aug 14 14:53:48 demoboard systemd[1]: systemd-remount-fs.service: Main 
> process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
>   Aug 14 14:53:48 demoboard systemd[1]: systemd-remount-fs.service: Failed 
> with result 'exit-code'.
>   Aug 14 14:53:48 demoboard systemd[1]: Failed to start Remount Root and 
> Kernel File Systems.
> 
> also consequentially, 'systemctl status' reported:
> 
>   State: degraded
> 
> When issuing 'strace -ff mount -o remount /' the failure occurred at
> 
>   mount_setattr(3, "", AT_EMPTY_PATH, 
> {attr_set=MOUNT_ATTR_RDONLY|MOUNT_ATTR_NOATIME|MOUNT_ATTR_NODIRATIME, 
> attr_clr=MOUNT_ATTR_NOSUID|MOUNT_ATTR_NODEV|MOUNT_ATTR_NOEXEC|MOUNT_ATTR_NOATIME|MOUNT_ATTR_STRICTATIME|MOUNT_ATTR_NOSYMFOLLOW|0x40,
>  propagation=0 /* MS_??? */, userns_fd=0}, 32) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> 
> After further investigation, The issue was pinpointed to lack of Linux
> kernel commit
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=95de4ad173ca0e61034f3145d66917970961c210
> ("fs: relax mount_setattr() permission checks") in the kernel version
> that was being used. Above mitigation was discussed in email related to
> then-rejected CVE-2024-26821:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024051606-imaging-entrench-b327@gregkh/T/
> 
> After testing with qemuarm64 machine different linux-yocto versions,
> it was observed that the issue impacts following versions of currently
> supported LTS kernels:
>  - 6.6.17 (fixed since 6.6.18 i.e. mount_setattr() returns 0)
>  - 6.1.78 (fixed since 6.1.79 i.e. mount_setattr() returns 0)
>  - 5.15.164 which is currently the newest of 5.15.y series (i.e. no
>    known working version)
> 
> Taking the above findings into consideration, add a new PACKAGECONFIG
> option removing which enables users to opt-out from using the feature
> which can cause issues with a bit older kernels.
> 
> Versions 5.10.223, 5.4.279 and 4.10.317 were also tested but the issue
> was not reproduced with those versions - using strace showed that the
> mount_setattr call associated with the new mount API problem was not
> issued with these LTS kernel versions, which seemed to be confirmed
> also by following libmount debug message in these cases:
> 
>   415: libmount:     HOOK: [0x7fa115e818]: failed to init new API
> 
> Note: In addition to the aforementioned, this change was
> tested also briefly using the current latest kernel versions 6.1.104,
> 6.6.45 and 6.10.3 that using the old mount API with newest kernels
> did not introduce any observable regression to the boot flow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Niko Mauno <[email protected]>
> ---
>  .../util-linux/util-linux_2.40.1.bb             | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.40.1.bb 
> b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.40.1.bb
> index a1aab94055..ef2384fe52 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.40.1.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-core/util-linux/util-linux_2.40.1.bb
> @@ -89,8 +89,14 @@ EXTRA_OECONF:append = " --disable-hwclock-gplv3"
>  # this helps to keep same expectations when using the SDK or
>  # build host versions during development
>  #
> -PACKAGECONFIG ?= "pcre2"
> -PACKAGECONFIG:class-target ?= "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 
> 'pam', 'chfn-chsh pam lastlog2', '', d)}"
> +PACKAGECONFIG ?= "\
> +    libmount-mountfd-support \
> +    pcre2 \
> +"
> +PACKAGECONFIG:class-target ?= "\
> +    libmount-mountfd-support \
> +    ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'pam', 'chfn-chsh pam lastlog2', 
> '', d)} \
> +"
>  # inherit manpages requires this to be present, however util-linux does not 
> have
>  # configuration options, and installs manpages always
>  PACKAGECONFIG[manpages] = ""
> @@ -107,6 +113,13 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[cryptsetup] = 
> "--with-cryptsetup,--without-cryptsetup,cryptsetup"
>  PACKAGECONFIG[chfn-chsh] = "--enable-chfn-chsh,--disable-chfn-chsh,"
>  PACKAGECONFIG[selinux] = "--with-selinux,--without-selinux,libselinux"
>  PACKAGECONFIG[lastlog2] = 
> "--enable-liblastlog2,--disable-liblastlog2,sqlite3"
> +# Using the new file descriptors based mount kernel API can cause rootfs 
> remount failure with some older kernels.
> +# Of currently supported LTS kernels, the old mount API should be used with:
> +# - versions prior to 6.6.18 in the 6.6.y series.
> +# - versions prior to 6.1.79 in the 6.1.y series.
> +# - versions till at least 5.15.164 in the 5.15.y series.
> +# - with 5.10.y, 5.4.y and 4.19.y series kernels, libmount seemed to use the 
> old API regardless of this option.
> +PACKAGECONFIG[libmount-mountfd-support] = 
> "--enable-libmount-mountfd-support,--disable-libmount-mountfd-support"
>  
>  EXTRA_OEMAKE = "ARCH=${TARGET_ARCH} CPU= CPUOPT= 'OPT=${CFLAGS}'"
>  
> -- 
> 2.39.2
> 

> 
> 
> 


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