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Bug 902479

Summary:	supermin-helper doesn't set supplemental groups
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component:	supermin	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	7.0	CC:	bfan, leiwang, lkong, rjones, wshi
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	supermin-4.1.1-2.el7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	902476	Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-06-13 09:55:49 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	902476
Bug Blocks:

Description Richard W.M. Jones 2013-01-21 18:35:26 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #902476 +++

Description of problem:

febootstrap-supermin-helper has the -g option on the command
which sets the group that it runs under.  However it does not
set supplemental groups.

For comparison see the work done on vhostmd:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741289

(Reported by Steve Grubb)

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

febootstrap 3.20

Comment 2 Richard W.M. Jones 2013-07-29 07:53:45 UTC

Note that febootstrap has been renamed to supermin, and
the helper program has been renamed to 'supermin-helper'.

This bug is fixed in supermin-helper.

Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2013-07-29 10:46:08 UTC

Steps to reproduce the bug:

(1) You may have to do:

# echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches 

otherwise supermin-helper may run too quickly(!)

(2) In first window, run supermin-helper *as root* like this:

supermin-helper -u 36 -g 36 -f checksum /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d `uname -m`

(3) In second window, run this command *as root*:

# egrep '^(Uid|Gid|Groups)' /proc/`pidof supermin-helper`/status

If the bug is reproduced, you'll see something like this:

Uid:	36	36	36	36
Gid:	36	36	36	36
Groups:	0

The important point is that group 0 (root) has leaked into
supermin-helper.  It should not be there.

If the bug is fixed, you'll see something like:

Uid:	36	36	36	36
Gid:	36	36	36	36
Groups:	36 

There are no root groups being leaked into the Groups line.

Notes:

* Step (2) may run very quickly (it's supposed to).  Dropping caches
may slow it down a bit.

* There is no version of 'supermin-helper' which ever
exhibited this bug.  This bug only occurred in the previous
version which was called 'febootstrap-supermin-helper'.

Comment 4 bfan 2013-07-30 02:29:00 UTC

Richard,
Thanks for your steps, I can reproduce it with supermin-4.1.1-1.el7.x86_64,

[Windows 1]
[root@]# echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches 
[root@]# supermin-helper -u 36 -g 36 -f checksum /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d `uname -m`
dd6ee9a002e827f30f2d3aa1c5106cdd294bf7dd8692c78dca84e91c2d5dad03

[Windows 2]
[root@]# egrep '^(Uid|Gid|Groups)' /proc/`pidof supermin-helper`/status
Uid:	36	36	36	36
Gid:	36	36	36	36
Groups:	36

Comment 5 Lingfei Kong 2014-01-23 07:53:15 UTC

Verify with supermin-4.1.4-2.el7
Steps to verify:
[tty1]
[host-a]#echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
[host-a]#supermin-helper -u 36 -g 36 -f checksum /usr/lib64/guestfs/supermin.d `uname -m`
99522d975c542686af6ed770910578502ca5af25ebd81ebae07531fd7913db22

[tty2]
[host-a]#egrep '^(Uid|Gid|Groups)' /proc/`pidof supermin-helper`/status
Uid:    36      36      36      36
Gid:    36      36      36      36
Groups: 36 

The value of 'Gid' and 'Groups' is 36 which is the requested value. So, bug is fixed.

Comment 6 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 09:55:49 UTC

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

Contact your manager or support representative in case you have further questions about the request.