Hi All,
We met this issue symptom after upgrading Linux kernel to 5.10.xx.
However, we didn't meet this issue at kernel 5.4 and 5.8.
And, we had run QEMU with latest palmetto 5.10.23 image, issue symptom also can be repo it.
Is there anyone meet this issue at Linux kernel 5.10.xx? From journal log, we didn’t find any obvious log about this symptom.
This issue is easy to repo and 100%, you can follow below repo step on your OpenBMC project to repo it. Thanks.
Symptom:
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Ipmi.Test Ipmi User :: Test suite for OpenBMC IPMI user management.
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Verify IPMI User Summary :: Verify IPMI maximum supported IPMI use...
| FAIL |
Set User Name command failed (user 9, name HgekZnCI): Unspecified error: 1 != 0
Journal Log:
olympus-nuvoton kernel: Linux version 5.10.14-711b69d-dirty-08f25ae (oe-user@oe-host)
Mar 18 14:42:26 olympus-nuvoton phosphor-user-manager[1409]:
useradd: cannot open /etc/passwd
Mar 18 14:42:26 olympus-nuvoton useradd[1409]: failed adding user 'HgekZnCI', data deleted
Mar 18 14:42:26 olympus-nuvoton phosphor-user-manager[288]: The operation failed internally.
Mar 18 14:42:26 olympus-nuvoton phosphor-user-manager[288]: Unable to create new user
Mar 18 14:42:26 olympus-nuvoton phosphor-user-manager[288]: The operation failed internally.
How to repo:
1. Run robot -t Verify_IPMI_User_Summary ipmi/test_ipmi_user.robot or
2. Execute useradd command to add user in our Olympus-nuvoton runbmc device.
root@olympus-nuvoton:/# useradd timlee
useradd: cannot open /etc/passwd
QEMU for plametto test result:
root@palmetto:~# cat /proc/version
Linux version 5.10.23-6687842 (oe-user@oe-host) (arm-openbmc-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1.20210209) #1 Sun Mar 28 20:54:20 UTC 2021
root@palmetto:~# useradd timlee
useradd: cannot open /etc/passwd
Debug:
We had added more debug log in overlayfs driver, but seems all overlayfs function call normally without error code return.
Here is the part of log after executing useradd command.
root@olympus-nuvoton:/# useradd timlee66
Mar 24 05:21:41 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: open(a6b0076c[sbin/useradd/l], 0400040) -> (581ac127, 0401400040)
Mar 24 05:21:46 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: open(c2f826cb[etc/nsswitch.conf/l], 00) -> (f971c00e, 0401000000)
Mar 24 05:21:46 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: open(6fc219b2[etc/ld.so.cache/l], 0400000) -> (0d21569c, 0401400000)
Mar 24 05:21:46 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: open(48a47202[lib/libnss_files-2.32.so/l], 0400000) -> (ee6b0bfe, 0401400000)
Mar 24 05:21:46 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: open(3c1f263f[etc/passwd/l], 00) -> (b7939c0b, 0401000000)
Mar 24 05:21:46 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: open(176fd21b[etc/ld.so.cache/l], 0400000) -> (d2e6be78, 0401400000)
Mar 24 05:21:46 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: open(607e8d70[lib/libnss_ldap.so.2/l], 0400000) -> (57f4f2f1, 0401400000)
Mar 24 05:21:52 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: create(etc/passwd.985, 0100600) = 0
Mar 24 05:21:52 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: open(c46e5b8b[etc/passwd.985/u], 0400001) -> (ef6449e9, 0401400001)
Mar 24 05:21:52 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: link(etc/passwd.985, etc/passwd.lock) = 0
Mar 24 05:21:52 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: create(work/#1b, 0100000) = 0
Mar 24 05:21:52 olympus-nuvoton kernel: overlayfs: unlink(work/#1b) = 0
Mar 24 05:21:52 olympus-nuvoton useradd[985]: failed adding user 'timlee', data deleted
useradd: cannot open /etc/passwd
Best regards,
Tim