From: Max Gautier <mg@max.gautier.name>
To: Meiyong Yu <meiyong.yu@126.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next v2] arpd: create /var/lib/arpd on first use
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:23:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0EE20B22-A0C2-4ECC-A1C0-CD52C5A478A6@max.gautier.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09BB339D-A57C-4F67-BE67-2859F0262C86@126.com>
Le 17 mars 2024 17:03:32 GMT+01:00, Meiyong Yu <meiyong.yu@126.com> a écrit :
>
>
>> On Mar 17, 2024, at 17:04, Max Gautier <mg@max.gautier.name> wrote:
>>
>> The motivation is to build distributions packages without /var to go
>> towards stateless systems, see link below (TL;DR: provisionning anything
>> outside of /usr on boot).
>>
>> We only try do create the database directory when it's in the default
>> location, and assume its parent (/var/lib in the usual case) exists.
>>
>> Links: https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html
>> Signed-off-by: Max Gautier <mg@max.gautier.name>
>> ---
>> Makefile | 2 +-
>> misc/arpd.c | 12 +++++++++++-
>> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index 8024d45e..2b2c3dec 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ DEFINES+=-DCONF_USR_DIR=\"$(CONF_USR_DIR)\" \
>> -DCONF_ETC_DIR=\"$(CONF_ETC_DIR)\" \
>> -DNETNS_RUN_DIR=\"$(NETNS_RUN_DIR)\" \
>> -DNETNS_ETC_DIR=\"$(NETNS_ETC_DIR)\" \
>> + -DARPDDIR=\"$(ARPDDIR)\" \
>> -DCONF_COLOR=$(CONF_COLOR)
>>
>> #options for AX.25
>> @@ -104,7 +105,6 @@ config.mk:
>> install: all
>> install -m 0755 -d $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR)
>> install -m 0755 -d $(DESTDIR)$(CONF_USR_DIR)
>> - install -m 0755 -d $(DESTDIR)$(ARPDDIR)
>> install -m 0755 -d $(DESTDIR)$(HDRDIR)
>> @for i in $(SUBDIRS); do $(MAKE) -C $$i install; done
>> install -m 0644 $(shell find etc/iproute2 -maxdepth 1 -type f) $(DESTDIR)$(CONF_USR_DIR)
>> diff --git a/misc/arpd.c b/misc/arpd.c
>> index 1ef837c6..a64888aa 100644
>> --- a/misc/arpd.c
>> +++ b/misc/arpd.c
>> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>> #include <fcntl.h>
>> #include <sys/uio.h>
>> #include <sys/socket.h>
>> +#include <sys/stat.h>
>> #include <sys/time.h>
>> #include <time.h>
>> #include <signal.h>
>> @@ -35,7 +36,8 @@
>> #include "rt_names.h"
>>
>> DB *dbase;
>> -char *dbname = "/var/lib/arpd/arpd.db";
>> +char const default_dbname[] = ARPDDIR "/arpd.db";
>> +char const *dbname = default_dbname;
>>
>> int ifnum;
>> int *ifvec;
>> @@ -668,6 +670,14 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>> }
>> }
>>
>> + if (strcmp(default_dbname, dbname) == 0
>> + && mkdir(ARPDDIR, 0755) != 0
>> + && errno != EEXIST
>> + ) {
>> + perror("create_db_dir");
>> + exit(-1);
>> + }
>> +
>> dbase = dbopen(dbname, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0644, DB_HASH, NULL);
>> if (dbase == NULL) {
>> perror("db_open");
>> --
>> 2.44.0
>>
>
>if (strcmp(default_dbname, dbname) == 0
>
>Do you consider when the input dbname is relative path, for example: ../../var/lib/arpd/arpd.db, anther example: //var//lib//arpd//arpd.db
I don't. IMO this is a corner case which isn't worth doing path normalization.
Symlinks are not considered either.
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[not found] <20240313093856.17fc459e@hermes.local>
2024-03-16 9:06 ` [PATCH iproute2-next] arpd: create /var/lib/arpd on first use Max Gautier
2024-03-16 15:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-03-16 19:56 ` Jay Vosburgh
2024-03-17 0:14 ` Max Gautier
2024-03-17 9:01 ` [PATCH iproute2-next v2] " Max Gautier
2024-03-17 15:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
[not found] ` <09BB339D-A57C-4F67-BE67-2859F0262C86@126.com>
2024-03-17 17:23 ` Max Gautier [this message]
2024-03-18 2:56 ` Ratheesh Kannoth
2024-03-18 8:37 ` Max Gautier
2024-03-18 8:51 ` [EXTERNAL] " Ratheesh Kannoth
2024-03-18 8:59 ` Max Gautier
2024-03-18 9:18 ` Ratheesh Kannoth
2024-03-18 9:26 ` Max Gautier
2024-03-18 9:37 ` Denis Kirjanov
2024-03-18 9:43 ` Ratheesh Kannoth
2024-03-18 15:49 ` [PATCH iproute2-next v3] " Max Gautier
2024-03-28 20:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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