[PATCH 0/1] Move PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR outside rootfs

[PATCH 0/1] Move PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR outside rootfs

[Peter Seebach]

There's a race condition in one of our (non-poky) builds which involves
a rootfs getting deleted while a pseudo process has a db in it open.
This caused me to realize that there existed a pseudo database in a
target filesystem, which made me panic. And we have a few really strange
reports I've never been able to reproduce where target filesystems
under qemu went pear-shaped in ways that look like pseudo suddenly
got really, really, confused.

Like say what would happen if a target could wipe out its own filesystem
permissions, because they were in its rootfs. :P

I haven't tested this super thoroughly, but I can still complete builds
and SDK builds with it, and it makes sense.

The following changes since commit 4ef8960c8d2876914bb78cbdce5fae3c5297e942:
  Khem Raj (1):
        gcc-cross-intermediate, gcc-crosssdk-intermediate: Remove

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib seebs/varpseudo
  http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=seebs/varpseudo

Peter Seebach (1):
  runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

 .../installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs |    7 +++----
 scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs                      |    2 +-
 scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk                        |   13 +++++++------
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

[PATCH 1/1] runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

[Peter Seebach]

In a few places, we have scripts which use <rootfs>/var/pseudo for
the pseudo state directory controlling a given filesystem. This
seems possibly risky because it means that stuff running under
qemu or whatnot could wipe out the data being used to handle that
rootfs.

Signed-off-by: Peter Seebach <peter.seebach@windriver.com>
---
 .../installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs |    7 +++----
 scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs                      |    2 +-
 scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk                        |   13 +++++++------
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs b/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
index 62dc170..0bbbeef 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ extract_rootfs()
   native_sysroot=$3
   target_sysroot=$2
   PSEUDO_COMMAND="$native_sysroot/usr/bin/pseudo"
-  PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $natvie_sysroot/usr"
   TAR_OPTS="-xjf"
   PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $native_sysroot/usr"
 
@@ -46,9 +45,9 @@ extract_rootfs()
     mkdir -p "$target_sysroot"
   fi
 
-  mkdir -p "$target_sysroot/var/pseudo"
-  touch "$target_sysroot/var/pseudo/pseudo.pid"
-  PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$target_sysroot/var/pseudo"
+  mkdir -p "$target_sysroot/../pseudo_state"
+  touch "$target_sysroot/../pseudo_state/pseudo.pid"
+  PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$target_sysroot/../pseudo_state"
   export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
 
   echo_info "Extracting rootfs: $1, using pseudo..."
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs b/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
index f8213ba..9b7941b 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
+++ b/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ NFSPID=~/.runqemu-sdk/nfs$NFS_INSTANCE.pid
 MOUNTPID=~/.runqemu-sdk/mount$NFS_INSTANCE.pid
 
 PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT/usr"
-PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$NFS_EXPORT_DIR/var/pseudo"
+PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$NFS_EXPORT_DIR/../pseudo_state"
 export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
 
 if [ ! -d "$PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR" ]; then
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk b/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
index 4b52475..8bab333 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
+++ b/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
@@ -73,15 +73,16 @@ if [ ! -d "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR" ]; then
 	mkdir -p "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR"
 fi
 
-if [ -e "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo" ]; then
-	echo "Error: $SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo already exists!"
-	echo "Please delete the entire rootfs tree manually if this is really what you want"
+if [ -e "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/../pseudo_state" ]; then
+	echo "Error: $SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/../pseudo_state already exists!"
+	echo "Please delete the rootfs tree and pseudo directory manually"
+        echo "if this is really what you want."
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-mkdir -p "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo"
-touch "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo/pseudo.pid"
-PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo"
+mkdir -p "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/../pseudo_state"
+touch "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/../pseudo_state/pseudo.pid"
+PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/../pseudo_state"
 export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
 
 echo "Extracting rootfs tarball using pseudo..."
-- 
1.7.0.4

Re: [PATCH 1/1] runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

[Scott Garman]

On 08/21/2012 11:31 AM, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In a few places, we have scripts which use <rootfs>/var/pseudo for
> the pseudo state directory controlling a given filesystem. This
> seems possibly risky because it means that stuff running under
> qemu or whatnot could wipe out the data being used to handle that
> rootfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Seebach <peter.seebach@windriver.com>
> ---
>   .../installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs |    7 +++----
>   scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs                      |    2 +-
>   scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk                        |   13 +++++++------
>   3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs b/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
> index 62dc170..0bbbeef 100755
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
> @@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ extract_rootfs()
>     native_sysroot=$3
>     target_sysroot=$2
>     PSEUDO_COMMAND="$native_sysroot/usr/bin/pseudo"
> -  PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $natvie_sysroot/usr"
>     TAR_OPTS="-xjf"
>     PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $native_sysroot/usr"
>
> @@ -46,9 +45,9 @@ extract_rootfs()
>       mkdir -p "$target_sysroot"
>     fi
>
> -  mkdir -p "$target_sysroot/var/pseudo"
> -  touch "$target_sysroot/var/pseudo/pseudo.pid"
> -  PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$target_sysroot/var/pseudo"
> +  mkdir -p "$target_sysroot/../pseudo_state"
> +  touch "$target_sysroot/../pseudo_state/pseudo.pid"
> +  PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$target_sysroot/../pseudo_state"
>     export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR

This would mean that if someone tried to put multiple rootfs directories 
in the same subdirectory, they could clobber each other's pseudo_state 
data, correct? Putting multiple rootfs directories in the same subdir is 
a common use case already, I don't think we could break that.

If you appended the top-level rootfs directory name to ../pseudo_state, 
e.g, ../pseudo_state_<dirname>, that would keep the pseudo_state 
directories separate and make it fairly obvious what rootfs they 
belonged to.

Also, neither of these schemes would support having $target_sysroot 
directly under / (though I'm not sure why someone would do that).

Scott

-- 
Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center

Re: [PATCH 1/1] runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

[Peter Seebach]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:34:35 -0700
Scott Garman <scott.a.garman@intel.com> wrote:

> This would mean that if someone tried to put multiple rootfs
> directories in the same subdirectory, they could clobber each other's
> pseudo_state data, correct? Putting multiple rootfs directories in
> the same subdir is a common use case already, I don't think we could
> break that.

Good catch!

I didn't realize this was a common use case.

> If you appended the top-level rootfs directory name
> to ../pseudo_state, e.g, ../pseudo_state_<dirname>, that would keep
> the pseudo_state directories separate and make it fairly obvious what
> rootfs they belonged to.

Good idea.

> Also, neither of these schemes would support having $target_sysroot 
> directly under / (though I'm not sure why someone would do that).

Yeah. I don't really like having the pseudo stuff outside the
directory, but I dislike it less than I dislike having it in the
directory. :)

-s
-- 
Listen, get this.  Nobody with a good compiler needs to be justified.

Re: [PATCH 1/1] runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 09:34 -0700, Scott Garman wrote:

> This would mean that if someone tried to put multiple rootfs directories 
> in the same subdirectory, they could clobber each other's pseudo_state 
> data, correct? Putting multiple rootfs directories in the same subdir is 
> a common use case already, I don't think we could break that.
> 
> If you appended the top-level rootfs directory name to ../pseudo_state, 
> e.g, ../pseudo_state_<dirname>, that would keep the pseudo_state 
> directories separate and make it fairly obvious what rootfs they 
> belonged to.

I'd wondered about this too. Can you use <dirname>.pseudo_state to make
the list sort better and help people with tab completion and so on? :)

Cheers,

Richard

[PATCH 1/1] runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

[Peter Seebach]

In a few places, we have scripts which use <rootfs>/var/pseudo for
the pseudo state directory controlling a given filesystem. This
seems possibly risky because it means that stuff running under
qemu or whatnot could wipe out the data being used to handle that
rootfs. Move this to:
  <rootfs>/../pseudo_state_$(basename $rootfs)
to avoid problems.

This also solves at least one case (not directly hit by yocto's
tree) wherein you could end up trying to remove a rootfs while
pseudo was using a database inside that rootfs, and thus the
remove would fail.

Signed-off-by: Peter Seebach <peter.seebach@windriver.com>
---
 .../installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs |    8 ++++----
 scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs                      |    2 +-
 scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk                        |   15 +++++++++------
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs b/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
index 62dc170..fee463c 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ extract_rootfs()
   native_sysroot=$3
   target_sysroot=$2
   PSEUDO_COMMAND="$native_sysroot/usr/bin/pseudo"
-  PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $natvie_sysroot/usr"
   TAR_OPTS="-xjf"
   PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $native_sysroot/usr"
 
@@ -46,9 +45,10 @@ extract_rootfs()
     mkdir -p "$target_sysroot"
   fi
 
-  mkdir -p "$target_sysroot/var/pseudo"
-  touch "$target_sysroot/var/pseudo/pseudo.pid"
-  PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$target_sysroot/var/pseudo"
+  pseudo_state_dir="$target_sysroot/../pseudo_state_$(basename "$target_sysroot")"
+  mkdir -p "$pseudo_state_dir"
+  touch "$pseudo_state_dir/pseudo.pid"
+  PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$pseudo_state_dir"
   export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
 
   echo_info "Extracting rootfs: $1, using pseudo..."
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs b/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
index f8213ba..0e0d32c 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
+++ b/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ NFSPID=~/.runqemu-sdk/nfs$NFS_INSTANCE.pid
 MOUNTPID=~/.runqemu-sdk/mount$NFS_INSTANCE.pid
 
 PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT/usr"
-PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$NFS_EXPORT_DIR/var/pseudo"
+PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$NFS_EXPORT_DIR/../pseudo_state/$(basename $NFS_EXPORT_DIR)"
 export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
 
 if [ ! -d "$PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR" ]; then
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk b/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
index 4b52475..88fdf0d 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
+++ b/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
@@ -73,15 +73,18 @@ if [ ! -d "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR" ]; then
 	mkdir -p "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR"
 fi
 
-if [ -e "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo" ]; then
-	echo "Error: $SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo already exists!"
-	echo "Please delete the entire rootfs tree manually if this is really what you want"
+pseudo_state_dir="$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/../pseudo_state_$(basename "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR")"
+
+if [ -e "$pseudo_state_dir" ]; then
+	echo "Error: $pseudo_state_dir already exists!"
+	echo "Please delete the rootfs tree and pseudo directory manually"
+        echo "if this is really what you want."
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-mkdir -p "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo"
-touch "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo/pseudo.pid"
-PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo"
+mkdir -p "$pseudo_state_dir"
+touch "$pseudo_state_dir/pseudo.pid"
+PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$pseudo_state_dir
 export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
 
 echo "Extracting rootfs tarball using pseudo..."
-- 
1.7.0.4

Re: [PATCH 1/1] runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

[Scott Garman]

On 08/22/2012 06:47 PM, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In a few places, we have scripts which use <rootfs>/var/pseudo for
> the pseudo state directory controlling a given filesystem. This
> seems possibly risky because it means that stuff running under
> qemu or whatnot could wipe out the data being used to handle that
> rootfs. Move this to:
>    <rootfs>/../pseudo_state_$(basename $rootfs)
> to avoid problems.
>
> This also solves at least one case (not directly hit by yocto's
> tree) wherein you could end up trying to remove a rootfs while
> pseudo was using a database inside that rootfs, and thus the
> remove would fail.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Seebach <peter.seebach@windriver.com>

I haven't tested this, but it appears to address the concerns I raised 
earlier.

With Jessica on vacation, could anyone else on the SDK team try this out 
and verify it with some sanity tests? e.g, boot some images using unfs 
and from an installed sdk.

Scott

> ---
>   .../installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs |    8 ++++----
>   scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs                      |    2 +-
>   scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk                        |   15 +++++++++------
>   3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs b/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
> index 62dc170..fee463c 100755
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
> @@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ extract_rootfs()
>     native_sysroot=$3
>     target_sysroot=$2
>     PSEUDO_COMMAND="$native_sysroot/usr/bin/pseudo"
> -  PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $natvie_sysroot/usr"
>     TAR_OPTS="-xjf"
>     PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $native_sysroot/usr"
>
> @@ -46,9 +45,10 @@ extract_rootfs()
>       mkdir -p "$target_sysroot"
>     fi
>
> -  mkdir -p "$target_sysroot/var/pseudo"
> -  touch "$target_sysroot/var/pseudo/pseudo.pid"
> -  PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$target_sysroot/var/pseudo"
> +  pseudo_state_dir="$target_sysroot/../pseudo_state_$(basename "$target_sysroot")"
> +  mkdir -p "$pseudo_state_dir"
> +  touch "$pseudo_state_dir/pseudo.pid"
> +  PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$pseudo_state_dir"
>     export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
>
>     echo_info "Extracting rootfs: $1, using pseudo..."
> diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs b/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
> index f8213ba..0e0d32c 100755
> --- a/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
> +++ b/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ NFSPID=~/.runqemu-sdk/nfs$NFS_INSTANCE.pid
>   MOUNTPID=~/.runqemu-sdk/mount$NFS_INSTANCE.pid
>
>   PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT/usr"
> -PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$NFS_EXPORT_DIR/var/pseudo"
> +PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$NFS_EXPORT_DIR/../pseudo_state/$(basename $NFS_EXPORT_DIR)"
>   export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
>
>   if [ ! -d "$PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR" ]; then
> diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk b/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
> index 4b52475..88fdf0d 100755
> --- a/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
> +++ b/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
> @@ -73,15 +73,18 @@ if [ ! -d "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR" ]; then
>   	mkdir -p "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR"
>   fi
>
> -if [ -e "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo" ]; then
> -	echo "Error: $SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo already exists!"
> -	echo "Please delete the entire rootfs tree manually if this is really what you want"
> +pseudo_state_dir="$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/../pseudo_state_$(basename "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR")"
> +
> +if [ -e "$pseudo_state_dir" ]; then
> +	echo "Error: $pseudo_state_dir already exists!"
> +	echo "Please delete the rootfs tree and pseudo directory manually"
> +        echo "if this is really what you want."
>   	exit 1
>   fi
>
> -mkdir -p "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo"
> -touch "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo/pseudo.pid"
> -PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo"
> +mkdir -p "$pseudo_state_dir"
> +touch "$pseudo_state_dir/pseudo.pid"
> +PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$pseudo_state_dir
>   export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
>
>   echo "Extracting rootfs tarball using pseudo..."
>


-- 
Scott Garman
Embedded Linux Engineer - Yocto Project
Intel Open Source Technology Center

Re: [PATCH 1/1] runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

[Peter Seebach]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:47:23 -0500
Peter Seebach <peter.seebach@windriver.com> wrote:

> +PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$pseudo_state_dir

... This quote really IS missing. Something must have gone horribly
wrong with my merge attempt.

-s
-- 
Listen, get this.  Nobody with a good compiler needs to be justified.

Re: [PATCH 1/1] runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

[Peter Seebach]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:39:24 +0100
Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> I'd wondered about this too. Can you use <dirname>.pseudo_state to
> make the list sort better and help people with tab completion and so
> on? :)

This is even BETTER. And since my previous submission had a Hilarious
Typo in it, I'll revise with this too.

-s
-- 
Listen, get this.  Nobody with a good compiler needs to be justified.

[PATCH 1/1] runqemu-export-rootfs and friends: don't put pseudo db in target fs

[Peter Seebach]

In a few places, we have scripts which use <rootfs>/var/pseudo for
the pseudo state directory controlling a given filesystem. This
seems possibly risky because it means that stuff running under
qemu or whatnot could wipe out the data being used to handle that
rootfs. Move this to:
  <rootfs>/../$(basename_rootfs).pseudo_state
to avoid problems.

This also solves at least one case (not directly hit by yocto's
tree) wherein you could end up trying to remove a rootfs while
pseudo was using a database inside that rootfs, and thus the
remove would fail.

Signed-off-by: Peter Seebach <peter.seebach@windriver.com>
---
 .../installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs |    8 ++++----
 scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs                      |    2 +-
 scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk                        |   15 +++++++++------
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs b/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
index 62dc170..d1a595b 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/installer/adt-installer/scripts/extract_rootfs
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ extract_rootfs()
   native_sysroot=$3
   target_sysroot=$2
   PSEUDO_COMMAND="$native_sysroot/usr/bin/pseudo"
-  PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $natvie_sysroot/usr"
   TAR_OPTS="-xjf"
   PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $native_sysroot/usr"
 
@@ -46,9 +45,10 @@ extract_rootfs()
     mkdir -p "$target_sysroot"
   fi
 
-  mkdir -p "$target_sysroot/var/pseudo"
-  touch "$target_sysroot/var/pseudo/pseudo.pid"
-  PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$target_sysroot/var/pseudo"
+  pseudo_state_dir="$target_sysroot/../$(basename "$target_sysroot").pseudo_state"
+  mkdir -p "$pseudo_state_dir"
+  touch "$pseudo_state_dir/pseudo.pid"
+  PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$pseudo_state_dir"
   export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
 
   echo_info "Extracting rootfs: $1, using pseudo..."
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs b/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
index f8213ba..3c77dd7 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
+++ b/scripts/runqemu-export-rootfs
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ NFSPID=~/.runqemu-sdk/nfs$NFS_INSTANCE.pid
 MOUNTPID=~/.runqemu-sdk/mount$NFS_INSTANCE.pid
 
 PSEUDO_OPTS="-P $OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT/usr"
-PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$NFS_EXPORT_DIR/var/pseudo"
+PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$NFS_EXPORT_DIR/../$(basename $NFS_EXPORT_DIR).pseudo_state"
 export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
 
 if [ ! -d "$PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR" ]; then
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk b/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
index 4b52475..509af66 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
+++ b/scripts/runqemu-extract-sdk
@@ -73,15 +73,18 @@ if [ ! -d "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR" ]; then
 	mkdir -p "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR"
 fi
 
-if [ -e "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo" ]; then
-	echo "Error: $SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo already exists!"
-	echo "Please delete the entire rootfs tree manually if this is really what you want"
+pseudo_state_dir="$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/../$(basename "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR").pseudo_state"
+
+if [ -e "$pseudo_state_dir" ]; then
+	echo "Error: $pseudo_state_dir already exists!"
+	echo "Please delete the rootfs tree and pseudo directory manually"
+        echo "if this is really what you want."
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-mkdir -p "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo"
-touch "$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo/pseudo.pid"
-PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$SDK_ROOTFS_DIR/var/pseudo"
+mkdir -p "$pseudo_state_dir"
+touch "$pseudo_state_dir/pseudo.pid"
+PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR="$pseudo_state_dir"
 export PSEUDO_LOCALSTATEDIR
 
 echo "Extracting rootfs tarball using pseudo..."
-- 
1.7.0.4