fix(agent): bundle a statically linked tar for restore - #98
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Problem ApplyRootfsDiff extracts the rootfs diff inside the placeholder container by invoking tar through PATH. Until now the bundle shipped the agent image's dynamically linked tar, whose library closure is built from the agent base image (Ubuntu 24.04, glibc 2.39). Because tar resolves its ELF loader and glibc from the placeholder image, any placeholder based on an older userspace (e.g. Ubuntu 22.04) fails at restore with version 'GLIBC_2.38' not found — or silently falls back to the placeholder's own tar. Fix Build GNU tar 1.35 statically against musl in a dedicated tar-builder stage and bundle it, so rootfs-diff extraction no longer depends on any userspace library in the placeholder image:
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Tar is GPL adding it to the repo is problematic
I would want to get the legal approval before continue
The agent exec's tar as a separate process (exec.Command). It doesn't link against GPL code, so GPLv3's copyleft doesn't extend to your Go code. Shipping a GPL binary next to Apache-2.0 binaries in one image is "mere aggregation" - the same reason every container image can ship bash/coreutils without becoming GPL. I will see for another solution that does not bundle tar |
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 11 remain after this review. WalkthroughThe image now builds a pinned static GNU tar, includes its source and license, bundles the binary, and invokes it through an explicit path during rootfs restore. Extraction preserves selected extended attributes. Tests validate path and executable errors. ChangesStatic restore tar integration
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change makes restore tar extraction independent of the placeholder image and preserves supported xattrs, but restores may still fail on targets that reject archived security.* xattrs because the supported compatibility range is not established. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up on that compatibility boundary. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DockerBuild
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DockerBuild->>BundledTar: build and bundle verified static GNU tar
NSRestore->>ApplyRootfsDiff: pass BundleDir/tar
ApplyRootfsDiff->>BundledTar: extract rootfs diff with selected xattrs
BundledTar-->>ApplyRootfsDiff: return extraction result
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In `@agent/internal/runtime/overlay.go`:
- Around line 191-200: Update ApplyRootfsDiff to avoid unconditionally restoring
security.* xattrs: define the supported security attributes and validate target
LSM/filesystem compatibility before including them, or narrow the tar include
pattern to attributes that are safe for every supported target. Preserve user.*
restoration, ensure incompatible security attributes do not abort rootfs
restore, and add fixtures covering security.capability and security.selinux for
each supported target.
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| // The capture side archives with --xattrs; restore them, but only the user | ||
| // and security namespaces. The archive is cut from the overlay upperdir, so | ||
| // it can carry trusted.overlay.* entries that must never be re-applied | ||
| // through the restored container's overlay mount. These flags are mirrored | ||
| // by the tar-builder smoke test in the Dockerfile — keep them in sync. | ||
| log.Info("Applying rootfs diff", "target", targetRoot, "bytes", info.Size()) | ||
| cmd := exec.Command("tar", "--skip-old-files", "--blocking-factor=2048", "-C", targetRoot, "-xf", localPath) | ||
| cmd := exec.Command(tarBinary, "--skip-old-files", "--blocking-factor=2048", | ||
| "--xattrs", "--xattrs-include=user.*", "--xattrs-include=security.*", | ||
| "-C", targetRoot, "-xf", localPath) |
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printf '%s\n' '--- extraction tests ---'
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GNU tar manual --xattrs-include extraction security.capability security.selinux unsupported filesystem restore failure
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When using GNU tar, the --xattrs option does not extract all extended attributes by default, even if they are present in the archive [1][2]. Specifically, GNU tar restricts default extraction to the user.* namespace because other namespaces, particularly security.* (such as security.capability and security.selinux), may contain data with binary formats or security contexts that are specific to the source system and could be incompatible or unsafe when applied to the destination system [1][3][4]. To extract attributes outside the user.* namespace, you must explicitly use the --xattrs-include=PATTERN option [1][2]. For example, to include all extended attributes, use: tar --xattrs --xattrs-include='*' -xf archive.tar For security.capability specifically, this approach requires you to ensure the binary format is compatible with the target system [3]. Note that for security.selinux, GNU tar provides a dedicated --selinux option, which is the preferred method for handling SELinux contexts rather than relying on generic xattr inclusion [1][5][4]. Regarding restore failures on unsupported filesystems: If the destination filesystem does not support extended attributes (e.g., certain configurations of FAT, older filesystems, or specific network mounts), attempting to restore them will trigger an error (typically Operation not supported or ENOTSUP) [6][7][8][9]. GNU tar's behavior when encountering these errors can cause the extraction process to fail or abort, depending on the version and environment [7][8]. In some workflows, tools may need to wrap syscalls to handle these failures gracefully (e.g., ignoring them if they are unsupported) rather than treating them as fatal errors [7][8]. If you encounter "unsupported filesystem" errors, you may need to disable extended attribute extraction entirely using the --no-xattrs option if the metadata is not strictly required for your specific use case [6][5].
Citations:
- 1: https://lists.libreplanet.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2019-06/msg00001.html
- 2: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2022-11/msg00005.html
- 3: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=771927
- 4: https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@gnu.org/msg05795.html
- 5: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tar.1.html
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docker loadfails with lsetxattr com.apple.provenance /manifest.json: operation not supported on Ventura & later moby/moby#47517 - 7: NO-JIRA: Handle wrapped ENOTSUP error openshift/oc#2311
- 8: Allow for xattr copy failure for vfs moby/moby#45420
- 9: xattrs not supported warning during extract fails due to % in filename borgbackup/borg#6063
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GNU tar’s manual states:
--xattrsenables extended-attribute support; during extraction, it applies stored attributes.- By default, all xattrs are archived, but only the
user.*namespace is extracted. security.*,trusted.*, andsystem.*attributes are not extracted by default because they may be system-specific; extracting them elsewhere can cause failures or misinterpretations.- Use
--xattrs-include='security.*'(or another pattern) to explicitly extract such attributes, after verifying compatibility. --xattrs-exclude=PATTERNremoves matching attributes after inclusion filtering. [1]
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tar --xattrs --xattrs-include='user.*' -xf archive.tarThe manual also advises paying attention to tar’s diagnostics and exit status during extraction. [2]
Citations:
- 1: https://www.gnu.org/s/tar/manual/html_chapter/operations.html?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Security-rules-of-thumb.html?utm_source=openai
Define compatibility before restoring security.*.
CaptureRootfsDiff archives all xattrs, and ApplyRootfsDiff passes security.* to the bundled GNU tar before CRIU restore. If the target LSM or filesystem rejects security.capability or security.selinux, tar exits non-zero and aborts the rootfs restore. Define supported attributes and target compatibility, or narrow the include pattern. Add fixtures for both attributes on each supported target.
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In `@agent/internal/runtime/overlay.go` around lines 191 - 200, Update
ApplyRootfsDiff to avoid unconditionally restoring security.* xattrs: define the
supported security attributes and validate target LSM/filesystem compatibility
before including them, or narrow the tar include pattern to attributes that are
safe for every supported target. Preserve user.* restoration, ensure
incompatible security attributes do not abort rootfs restore, and add fixtures
covering security.capability and security.selinux for each supported target.
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| if err := snapshotruntime.ApplyRootfsDiff(opts.CheckpointPath, "/", log); err != nil { | ||
| tarBinary := filepath.Join(opts.BundleDir, "tar") |
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nit: add the "tar" to a const, similar to the cuda.HelperBinaryName
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in other places in the dockerfile we call bash scripts that are in files. it is usally easier to read and test ourself when it's in a separate file
would you consider moving the 2 run blocks to bash files?
| log.Info("Applying rootfs diff", "target", targetRoot, "bytes", info.Size()) | ||
| cmd := exec.Command("tar", "--skip-old-files", "--blocking-factor=2048", "-C", targetRoot, "-xf", localPath) | ||
| cmd := exec.Command(tarBinary, "--skip-old-files", "--blocking-factor=2048", | ||
| "--xattrs", "--xattrs-include=user.*", "--xattrs-include=security.*", |
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i'm not sure i understand the need for added xattrs... i checked what i know and these additions aren't useful in this case from what i can gather
do you know which of them is used/useful in this case?
Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>
ApplyRootfsDiff now rejects a relative tar binary path, so an empty bundle dir can no longer degrade to PATH lookup inside the placeholder. Extraction now restores the xattrs the capture side archives, scoped to user.* and security.*: the archive is cut from the overlay upperdir and may carry trusted.overlay.* entries that must never be re-applied through the restored container's overlay mount. The tar-builder smoke test mirrors the exact restore flags and asserts a user xattr survives, failing the build if xattr support was compiled out. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>
Name the bundled restore tar via runtime.RestoreTarBinaryName instead of a string literal, matching the cuda.HelperBinaryName convention, and move the tar-builder stage's two inline RUN blocks into standalone scripts (agent/scripts/fetch-gnu-tar.sh, build-gnu-tar.sh) per the repo's script-file convention. No behavior change; the smoke-test keep-in-sync note now lives in the build script and the ApplyRootfsDiff comment points there. Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>
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ApplyRootfsDiffextracts the rootfs diff inside the placeholder container by invokingtarthrough PATH. Until now the bundle shipped the agent image's dynamically linked tar, whose library closure is built from the agent base image (Ubuntu 24.04, glibc 2.39). Because tar resolves its ELF loader and glibc from the placeholder image, any placeholder based on an older userspace (e.g. Ubuntu 22.04) fails at restore withversion 'GLIBC_2.38' not found— or silently falls back to the placeholder's own tar.Fix
Build GNU tar 1.35 statically against musl in a dedicated
tar-builderstage and bundle it, so rootfs-diff extraction no longer depends on any userspace library in the placeholder image:tar-builderstage downloads a SHA256-pinned GNU tar source tarball, builds it withLDFLAGS=-static, and verifies the result at build time:readelfasserts there is no ELF interpreter and noNEEDEDentries, and a smoke test exercises the exact restore invocation.ApplyRootfsDiffnow takes an explicit tar binary path and rejects a non-absolute one, so extraction can never fall back to the placeholder's tar via PATH;nsrestorepasses the bundle path.--xattrs), scoped touser.*andsecurity.*— the archive is cut from the overlay upperdir and may carrytrusted.overlay.*entries that must never be re-applied through the restored container's overlay mount. The smoke test sets auser.*xattr and asserts it survives the round trip, failing the build if xattr support was compiled out of the static tar.lddclosure check drops tar (static binaries have no shared deps to resolve).BASE_IMAGEnow applies only to CRIU,ip, and the CUDA tools — the restore tar is exempt.Compliance
/legal/source/gnu-tar/and documented inREADME.source.txt.COPYING) is folded into the generated attribution file.attrpackage added to thetar-builderstage is build-time test tooling only (setfattr/getfattrfor the smoke test); it is not redistributed and does not change the image's license surface.Testing
ApplyRootfsDiffsignature, plus cases asserting the provided tar path is actually the one invoked and that a relative tar path is rejected.Summary by CodeRabbit
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