[crac] Integrated: Ignore open files in /var/lib/sss/mc

[Radim Vansa]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 14:58:13 GMT, Radim Vansa <rvansa at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I was considering different ways to fix this - there are actually two problems:
> 1) how to detect that?
> * This PR whitelisst all files in the directory (we could explicitly name `passwd`, `group`, `sid` and `initgroups`...)
> * We could manually check all places in JDK that call `getpwuid*`, `getpwname*`, `getgrgid*`and `getgrname*` and maybe some other functions, and diff FDs opened before/after the call. However this a) has performance impact b) is prone to races
> * Intercept the call: either catch syscalls (ptrace or seccomp), or patching `sss_open_cloexec` in memory, or preloading it? Rather complicated.
> 2) what to do with the open FD?
> * Current solution is to leave this up to CRIU (or another C/R engine). Again the simplest
> * We could close this; the FD is `fstat`-validated later on, so this would cause errors from these functions. We would need to patch the library, de-initializing the implementation (also risky).
> 
> Normally I would try to include a testcase but given that this is system-dependent (and the issue does not appear even in CentOS Stream 9 container) I've only did manual testing.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 16885f76
Author:    Radim Vansa <rvansa at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/crac/commit/16885f76b08630fedd9b3bb135f4de11847dca77
Stats:     38 lines in 6 files changed: 38 ins; 0 del; 0 mod

Ignore open files in /var/lib/sss/mc

Reviewed-by: akozlov

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/crac/pull/137