[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/3] Shared state for all !

[Joshua Lock]

On 09/05/12 20:10, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On 09/05/12 19:32, Joshua Lock wrote:
>> On 09/05/12 19:15, Chris Larson wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Joshua Lock<josh at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 09/05/12 17:50, Chris Larson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Joshua Lock<josh at linux.intel.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In Yocto #2041[2] Mark reported an issue with reusing shared state
>>>>>> as a
>>>>>> different user on the same machine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Since the whole purpose of shared state is that it be shared I
>>>>>> decided to
>>>>>> dig
>>>>>> into this issue. I wanted to at least be able to use the shared-state
>>>>>> cache of
>>>>>> a different user without error, even if all of the objects aren't
>>>>>> actually used
>>>>>> (i.e. native, at least on the Edison branch I did most of the testing
>>>>>> with).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is an RFC mainly because it changes the permissions of created
>>>>>> directories,
>>>>>> sstate files and siginfo files from what they have traditionally
>>>>>> been.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is more of the rhyme an reason in the patch commit headers and
>>>>>> comments
>>>>>> but tl;dr bb.mkdirhier directories will be 0777 (rwxrwxrwx) with this
>>>>>> patch, as
>>>>>> will all of the contents of sstate-cache (siginfo and tgz) files.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is actually what one would expect from reading the Python API
>>>>>> docs
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> os.makedirs "The default mode is 0777 (octal)."[1] but not what
>>>>>> actually
>>>>>> happens
>>>>>> on most modern Linux systems thanks to umask.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please review the following changes for suitability for inclusion.
>>>>>> If you
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> any objections or suggestions for improvement, please respond to the
>>>>>> patches. If
>>>>>> you agree with the changes, please provide your Acked-by.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 777 seems questionable to me, personally. Generally collaboration
>>>>> happens amongst folks within a group, and chmod g+s makes that easier.
>>>>> I'd expect 775 to be a more sane value, myself.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean for bb.mkdirhier calls, the tgz files, the siginfo files or
>>>> everything?
>>>>
>>>> I went with 777 for mkdirhier as that's the default of os.makedirs
>>>> before
>>>> umask is involved. I would likely have picked rw-rw-r-- (664) if I
>>>> weren't
>>>> trying to request comments.
>>>
>>> Gotcha.
>>>
>>> I'm concerned about the behavior change and potential implications of
>>> changing the default behavior of mkdirhier. I'm inclined to say that
>>> when you don't pass mode, let it use the current behavior of obeying
>>> the umask.
>>
>> An earlier version of the series did this and I'm happy to add that
>> behaviour back in.
>>
>> If we're not going to do that, and want to change the
>>> default behavior, then I think 777 is the wrong/questionable default.
>>> Beyond that, 777 is certainly the wrong mode to be using for the
>>> shared state package in sstate.bbclass.
>>
>> Do you have a strong preference on 664 vs. 775 ?
>
> I'm leaning towards 664 (rw-rw-r--) for the files and 775 (rwxrwxr-x)
> for directories, these are the defaults for file and directory creation
> on Ubuntu 12.04 and Fedora 16.

At which point, the obvious "solution" to the bug report is a sanity 
check whether the user can read and write to the sstate directory.

Cheers,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
         Yocto Project
         Intel Open Source Technology Centre