Re: [PATCH 5.14 000/151] 5.14.14-rc1 review

Antonio Terceiro
2021-10-19T13:05:04Z

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Hi,

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 08:47:58AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Ah much better, I had an older version of tuxmake here.
>
> Now it fails with an expected permission problem:
> Error: writing blob: adding layer with blob "sha256:10348114f214e2f07f30fa82aaa743c1750b2a9025cc8bec19f3f4f2b087a96d": Error processing tar file(exit status 1): potentially insufficient UIDs or GIDs available in user namespace (requested 0:42 for /etc/gshadow): Check /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid: lchown /etc/gshadow: invalid argument
> E: Runtime preparation failed: failed to pull remote image docker.io/tuxmake/arm64_gcc-11
>
> Note, I will not run kernel builds or random containers downloaded from
> the internet as root, sorry :)

Note that podman does *not* run as root by default¹, and that's why
tuxbuild recommends it instead of docker. What it does need, is the
ability to create an unprivileged user namespace. This includes:

- having the `kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone` sysctl set to 1

- having enough UIDs and GIDs in the /etc/sub*id mappings, which is the
error message you got is complaining about. Just having the following
lines should be enough:

$ grep -H terceiro /etc/sub*id
/etc/subgid:terceiro:100000:65536
/etc/subuid:terceiro:100000:65536

On Debian, those are added by default when you created an user
account. I'm not sure about other systems.

¹ by default in a podman container you are root from the POV of the
container, but uid 0 in the container is actually mapped to your regular
UID on the host system.

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