[pkg-go] Bug#1101414: podman potentially deadlocks current and future invocations

[Norbert Lange]

Package: podman
Version: 5.4.1+ds1-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

Podman has a bug that can block all podman invocations,
you can trigger it with

# Preparation
mkdir -p /tmp/test
echo "text" > /tmp/test/file
A=$(podman create --volume build:/builds debian)
podman cp /tmp/test/. $A:/builds
podman container rm $A

# Bug
A=$(podman create --volume build:/builds debian)
podman cp /tmp/test/. $A:/builds

---

to make matter worse for me, the gitlab-ci-local tool
always uses this sequence, critically affecting me.

The bug is reported and fixed upstream [1], but not yet released
(should be in 5.4.2).

Please get this fixed ASAP.

[1] - https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/25585

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.19-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages podman depends on:
ii  conmon                           2.1.12-4
ii  crun                             1.20-1
ii  golang-github-containers-common  0.62.2+ds1-2
ii  init-system-helpers              1.68
ii  libc6                            2.41-6
ii  libgpgme11t64                    1.24.2-1+b1
ii  libseccomp2                      2.6.0-2
ii  libsqlite3-0                     3.46.1-2
ii  libsubid5                        1:4.17.3-2
ii  netavark                         1.14.0-2

Versions of packages podman recommends:
ii  buildah             1.39.3+ds1-1
ii  ca-certificates     20241223
ii  catatonit           0.2.1-1
ii  containers-storage  1.57.2+ds1-1
pn  criu                <none>
ii  dbus-user-session   1.16.2-2
pn  libcriu2            <none>
ii  passt               0.0~git20250320.32f6212-1
pn  slirp4netns         <none>
ii  uidmap              1:4.17.3-2

Versions of packages podman suggests:
ii  containernetworking-plugins  1.1.1+ds1-3+b14
pn  docker-compose               <none>
ii  iptables                     1.8.11-2

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