Bug 2149409

Summary: HPP mounter deployment can't mount as unprivileged
Product: Container Native Virtualization (CNV) Reporter: Alex Kalenyuk <akalenyu>
Component: StorageAssignee: Alexander Wels <awels>
Status: VERIFIED --- QA Contact: Yan Du <yadu>
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Version: 4.12.0CC: jpeimer, jvilaca, yadu
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Description Alex Kalenyuk 2022-11-29 20:03:52 UTC 
Description of problem:
Mounter is running as USER 1000 and thus cannot perform the mount operation

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
CNV 4.12.0

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install HPP
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Actual results:
Failed mounting "Output","out":"mount: only root can do that\n"

Expected results:
Mounter succeeds mounting

Additional info:
{"level":"error","ts":1669748871.4062114,"logger":"mounter","msg":"failed to mount device to path on host.","error":"exit status 1","stacktrace":"main.mountBlockVolume\n\t/home/prow/go/src/github.com/kubevirt/hostpath-provisioner-operator/cmd/mounter/main.go:256\nmain.main\n\t/home/prow/go/src/github.com/kubevirt/hostpath-provisioner-operator/cmd/mounter/main.go:161\nruntime.main\n\t/root/.gimme/versions/go1.18.2.linux.amd64/src/runtime/proc.go:250"}
{"level":"info","ts":1669748871.4063103,"logger":"mounter","msg":"Output","out":"mount: only root can do that\n"}
Comment 2 Yan Du 2023-02-13 10:18:00 UTC 
Test on CNV-v4.12.1-40

not see the mount error in hostpath-provisioner-operator and hpp-pool pods.
and mounter runs as root
sh-4.4# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)