[pkg-lxc-devel] Bug#916639: LXC AppArmor confinement breaks systemd v240

[Christian Brauner]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:58:09AM +0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> Le dimanche 16 décembre 2018 à 20:22:05+0100, intrigeri at debian.org a écrit :
> > Package: lxc
> > Version: 1:3.0.3-1
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>, Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller at proxmox.com>
> > User: pkg-apparmor-team at lists.alioth.debian.org
> > Usertags: buggy-profile
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > as discussed on https://bugs.debian.org/911806 the current LXC
> > AppArmor support breaks systemd v240, which now refuses to start units
> > if it can't set up various sandboxing features, while previously it
> > would merely start the units without the configured sandboxing.
> > Michael Biebl originally reported this failure in the context of the
> > systemd autopkgtests but I expect the same problem will affect regular
> > full-system containers as well.
> > 
> > Testing confirms that this problem is fixed by backporting 3 commits
> > (e6ec0a9, e7311a84 and 1800f92) from LXC 3.1.0. I'm attaching the
> > resulting backported patches. Credit goes to Wolfgang Bumiller who did
> > the work upstream and to Michael Biebl who reported the problem in
> > great details.
> > 
> > If Buster is going to be released with LXC 3.0.x, IMO we need to
> > either apply these patches or disable AppArmor by default for new LXC
> > containers. And if we're going to ship with LXC 3.1.0 or newer, then
> > feel free to disregard this request and close this bug with the first
> > upload of LXC 3.1.0+ :)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Cc-ing Christian to improve the delay of replies.
> 
> At first I released 3.1.0 in unstable, but it seems unwise to rely on this
> one when 3.0 is the LTS and 3.1 support won't last for long.
> 
> Hence I did a 3.1.0+really3.0.3 release today, rollbacking to 3.0.3.
> 
> This means this bug is no longer fixed.
> 
> Christian, would you consider releasing a 3.0.4 containing the patchset
> mentioned in this bug?

The three commits you linked would be a feature backport which we can't
do into a stable branch. Wolfgang could however send a custom patch. I
Cced him. If he does it we can push this into the next release. :)

Thanks!
Christian