With Linux kernel >=6.6 & glibc 2.39 a `fchmodat2(2)` is available that
isn't filtered away by the libseccomp sandbox.
Being able to use this to bypass that restriction has surprising results
for some builds such as lxc[1]:
> With kernel ≥6.6 and glibc 2.39, lxc's install phase uses fchmodat2,
> which slips through 9b88e52846/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc (L1650-L1663).
> The fixupPhase then uses fchmodat, which fails.
> With older kernel or glibc, setting the suid bit fails in the
> install phase, which is not treated as fatal, and then the
> fixup phase does not try to set it again.
Please note that there are still ways to bypass this sandbox[2] and this is
mostly a fix for the breaking builds.
This change works by creating a syscall filter for the `fchmodat2`
syscall (number 452 on most systems). The problem is that glibc 2.39
is needed to have the correct syscall number available via
`__NR_fchmodat2` / `__SNR_fchmodat2`, but this flake is still on
nixpkgs 23.11. To have this change everywhere and not dependent on the
glibc this package is built against, I added a header
"fchmodat2-compat.hh" that sets the syscall number based on the
architecture. On most platforms its 452 according to glibc with a few
exceptions:
$ rg --pcre2 'define __NR_fchmodat2 (?!452)'
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/x32/arch-syscall.h
58:#define __NR_fchmodat2 1073742276
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n32/arch-syscall.h
67:#define __NR_fchmodat2 6452
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n64/arch-syscall.h
62:#define __NR_fchmodat2 5452
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/arch-syscall.h
70:#define __NR_fchmodat2 4452
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/arch-syscall.h
59:#define __NR_fchmodat2 562
I added a small regression-test to the setuid integration-test that
attempts to set the suid bit on a file using the fchmodat2 syscall.
I confirmed that the test fails without the change in
local-derivation-goal.
Additionally, we require libseccomp 2.5.5 or greater now: as it turns
out, libseccomp maintains an internal syscall table and
validates each rule against it. This means that when using libseccomp
2.5.4 or older, one may pass `452` as syscall number against it, but
since it doesn't exist in the internal structure, `libseccomp` will refuse
to create a filter for that. This happens with nixpkgs-23.11, i.e. on
stable NixOS and when building Lix against the project's flake.
To work around that
* a backport of libseccomp 2.5.5 on upstream nixpkgs has been
scheduled[3].
* the package now uses libseccomp 2.5.5 on its own already. This is to
provide a quick fix since the correct fix for 23.11 is still a staging cycle
away.
We still need the compat header though since `SCMP_SYS(fchmodat2)`
internally transforms this into `__SNR_fchmodat2` which points to
`__NR_fchmodat2` from glibc 2.39, so it wouldn't build on glibc 2.38.
The updated syscall table from libseccomp 2.5.5 is NOT used for that
step, but used later, so we need both, our compat header and their
syscall table 🤷
Relevant PRs in CppNix:
* https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10591
* https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10501
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/300635#issuecomment-2031073804
[2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/300635#issuecomment-2030844251
[3] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/306070
(cherry picked from commit ba6804518772e6afb403dd55478365d4b863c854)
Change-Id: I6921ab5a363188c6bff617750d00bb517276b7fe
This commit makes Meson the default buildsystem for Lix.
The Make buildsystem is now deprecated and will be removed soon, but has
not yet, which will be done in a later commit when all seems good. The
mesonBuild jobs have been removed, and have not been replaced with
equivalent jobs to ensure the Make buildsystem still works.
The full, new commands in a development shell are:
$ meson setup ./build "--prefix=$out" $mesonFlags
(A simple `meson setup ./build` will also build, but will do a different
thing, not having the settings from package.nix applied.)
$ meson compile -C build
$ meson test -C build --suite=check
$ meson install -C build
$ meson test -C build --suite=installcheck
(Check and installcheck may both be done after install, allowing you to
omit the --suite argument entirely, but this is the order package.nix
runs them in.)
If tests fail and Meson helpfully has no output for why, use the
`--print-error-logs` option to `meson test`. Why this is not the default
I cannot explain.
If you change a setting in the buildsystem, most cases will
automatically regenerate the Meson configuration, but some cases, like
trying to build a specific target whose name is new to the buildsystem
(e.g. `meson compile -C build src/libmelt/libmelt.dylib`, when
`libmelt.dylib` did not exist as a target the last time the buildsystem
was generated), then you can reconfigure using new settings but
existing options, and only recompiling stuff affected by the changes:
$ meson setup --reconfigure build
Note that changes to the default values in `meson.options` or in the
`default_options :` argument to project() are NOT propagated with
`--reconfigure`.
If you want a totally clean build, you can use:
$ meson setup --wipe build
That will work regardless of if `./build` exists or not.
Specific, named targets may be addressed in
`meson build -C build <target>` with the "target ID" if there is one,
which is the first string argument passed to target functions that
have one, and unrelated to the variable name, e.g.:
libexpr_dylib = library('nixexpr', …)
can be addressed with:
$ meson compile -C build nixexpr
All targets may be addressed as their output, relative to the build
directory, e.g.:
$ meson compile -C build src/libexpr/libnixexpr.so
But Meson does not consider intermediate files like object files
targets. To build a specific object file, use Ninja directly and
specify the output file relative to the build directory:
$ ninja -C build src/libexpr/libnixexpr.so.p/nixexpr.cc.o
To inspect the canonical source of truth on what the state of the
buildsystem configuration is, use:
$ meson introspect
Have fun!
Change-Id: Ia3e7b1e6fae26daf3162e655b4ded611a5cd57ad
This commit adds the capability for building the Doxygen internal API
docs in the Meson buildsystem, and also makes doing so the default for
the internal-api-docs hydra job. Aside from the /nix-support directory,
which differed only by the hash part of a store path, the outputs of
hydraJobs.internal-api-docs before and after this commit were
bit-for-bit identical on my machine.
Change-Id: I98f0017891c25b06866c15f7652fe74f706ec8e1
This is in our style guide, we can cheaply enforce it, let's do it.
```
$ pre-commit
check-case-conflicts.....................................................Passed
check-executables-have-shebangs..........................................Passed
check-headers............................................................Failed
- hook id: check-headers
- exit code: 1
Missing pattern @file in file src/libexpr/value.hh
We found some header files that don't conform to the style guide.
The Lix style guide requests that header files:
- Begin with `#pragma once` so they only get parsed once
- Contain a doxygen comment (`/**` or `///`) containing `@file`, for
example, `///@file`, which will make doxygen generate docs for them.
When adding that, consider also adding a `@brief` with a sentence
explaining what the header is for.
For more details: https://wiki.lix.systems/link/3#bkmrk-header-files
check-merge-conflicts....................................................Passed
check-shebang-scripts-are-executable.....................................Passed
check-symlinks.......................................(no files to check)Skipped
end-of-file-fixer........................................................Passed
mixed-line-endings.......................................................Passed
no-commit-to-branch......................................................Passed
release-notes........................................(no files to check)Skipped
treefmt..................................................................Passed
trim-trailing-whitespace.................................................Passed
```
Fixes: #233
Change-Id: I77150b9298c844ffedd0f85cc5250ae9208502e3
The flake for pre-commit-checks is rather questionable. We ignored
it so it uses our own nixpkgs and doesn't reimport nixpkgs. This should
save a couple of seconds of eval time!
Change-Id: I4584982beb32e0122f791fa29f6a544bdbb9e201
package.nix previously needed this callPackage'd externally, which
didn't make a lot of sense to us since this is an internal dependency.
Thus we changed it to make it more self contained.
Change-Id: I4935bc0bc80e1a132bc9b1519e917791da95037c
Some of this code existed for installer tests, and indeed its removal is
an indication that our daemon cross-compatibility tests were removed.
Although these are not like, super critical tests, we would like to
restore them.
See: #33
Change-Id: I75c733b25c00eca3a9676d498703bbfc1d6ec21b
The following command is now sufficient to build Lix from outside of the
flake:
nix-build -E 'let pkgs = import <nixpkgs> { }; in pkgs.callPackage
./package.nix { build-release-notes = false; nix-doc = pkgs.callPackage
./nix-doc/package.nix { }; }'
Change-Id: Ie6b14b446480ac07c7266d4fba20042b04cc35b9
follow-up to 32eaa8a29[1] "flake: move release note checks to hydraJobs",
this commit fixes a load-bearing typo for`checks.rl-next` and
`checks.rl-next-dev`.
[1]: 32eaa8a2910793538deab31f85534faf7e722ef7
Change-Id: I9383ed21f7eccc337c0c2f65525418b735a94a1d
In our view it really doesn't make sense to not have this in in
package.nix in some way. These patches aren't just for performance or
something -- Lix flat out doesn't build without these patches.
(Arguably that makes them a buildsystem responsibility as well, but that
can wait for when we're ready to start adding subproject fallback
dependency resolution to Meson.)
This is a step towards making `package.nix` more self-sufficient and
`callPackage`able without excessive external logic.
With this change the following command is enough to build Lix from out
of the flake:
nix-build -E 'let pkgs = import <nixpkgs> { }; in pkgs.callPackage
./package.nix { build-release-notes = false; inherit (pkgs.lib) fileset;
nix-doc = pkgs.callPackage ./nix-doc/package.nix { }; }'
Change-Id: Ia37fe8171f87d3293033de8be07d9bab12716f1d
For a long time `nix repl` has supported displaying documentation set on
builtins, however, it has long been convention to use Markdown comments
on Nix functions themselves for documentation. This exposes that
information to `nix repl` users in a nice and formatted way.
NixOS/rfcs#145 doc-comments are primarily what this feature is intended
to consume, however, support for lambda documentation in the repl is
experimental. We do our best effort to support the RFC here.
These changes are based on [the nix-doc library](https://github.com/lf-/nix-doc) and
are licensed under the terms described in the relevant source files.
Change-Id: Ic6fe947d39a22540705d890737e336c4720b0a22
The big ones here are `trim-trailing-whitespace` and `end-of-file-fixer`
(which makes sure that every file ends with exactly one newline
character).
Change-Id: Idca73b640883188f068f9903e013cf0d82aa1123
I didn't enable this by default for clang due to making the build time
10% worse or so. Unfortunate, but tbh devs for whom 10% of build time is
not *that* bad should probably simply enable this.
Change-Id: I8d1e5b6f3f76c649a4e2f115f534f7f97cee46e6
hacking changelog-d to support not just github but also forgejo and
gerrit is a lot more complicated than it's worth, even moreso since
the entire thing can just as well be done with ~60 lines of python.
this new script is also much cheaper to instantiate (being python),
so having it enabled in all shells is far less of a hassle.
we've also adjusted existing release notes that referenced a gerrit
cl to auto-link to the cl in question, making the diff a bit bigger
closes #176
Change-Id: I8ba7dd0070aad9ba4474401731215fcf5d9d2130
parallel meson builds need too much ram. linearize them for now, and
hopefully we can remove the make build system and this hack soonish.
Change-Id: I42c092db8b0c63680e77da2263cdfe9e7f6575be
This commit adds several meson.build, which successfully build and
install Lix executables, libraries, and headers. Meson does not yet
build docs, Perl bindings, or run tests, which will be added in
following commits. As such, this commit does not remove the existing
build system, or make it the default, and also as such, this commit has
several FIXMEs and TODOs as notes for what should be done before the
existing autoconf + make buildsystem can be removed and Meson made the
default. This commit does not modify any source files.
A Meson-enabled build is also added as a Hydra job, and to
`nix flake check`.
Change-Id: I667c8685b13b7bab91e281053f807a11616ae3d4
`macOS` does not have `glibcLocales`:
error:
… while calling the 'derivationStrict' builtin
at /derivation-internal.nix:9:12:
8|
9| strict = derivationStrict drvAttrs;
| ^
10|
… while evaluating derivation 'nix-2.90.0'
whose name attribute is located at /nix/store/y0c95bwyvs80pm69hdd4b11pyq2ghiwh-source
/pkgs/stdenv/generic/make-derivation.nix:348:7
… while evaluating attribute 'LOCALE_ARCHIVE' of derivation 'nix-2.90.0'
at /nix/store/ng5qzbyv4902b4pw7g35caqw5cnmryf9-source/flake.nix:331:15:
330| # Required to make non-NixOS Linux not complain about missing loc
Change-Id: I4464484a0eca12b5e073d49d900b6f25886245c1
This series takes a somewhat different approach from the flake rework
done in NixOS/nix. The package.nix here does not provide callPackage
options for all the various settings in the build, and instead the other
places Nix derivations are used (like internal-api-docs) will .overrideAttrs
the normal Nix package derivation. This more closely matches how these
things were structured originally, and results in less churn and more
atomicity in these changes.
In the future, package.nix likely will migrate to have more build
options in the callPackage arguments, but we are also planning to
rewrite the build system anyway.
Change-Id: I170c4e5a4184bab62e1fd75e56db876d4ff116cf
deduplication does not currently work fully, showing derivations
multiple times if they have different underlying values. this can happen
by selecting the same derivation twice for two different attributes of a
set, using inherit-from (which reduces to the previous), importing
nixpkgs twice, or any other number of things.
since users already have to deal with duplicates for this reason it
won't hurt to add *more* duplicates. the alternative would be to
deduplicate fully, which would drop derivations that are currently
returned and those pose a regression risk.
Change-Id: I64b397351237e10375d270f1bddecb71f62aa131
Just `stdenv.isDarwin` isn't enough because it doesn't apply to the
build platform, which mean that cross packages building from darwin to
another platform will have `isDarwin` set to false.
Replace it by `stdenv.buildPlatform.isDarwin`.
(cherry picked from commit a0cb75d96f76a3be48b9319e26d8ad78ef4e4525)
(h/t jade for finding this one)
Change-Id: If3cb74e6feaa5d51de550d9a140c71683c2214cd
Define NixOS tests in `tests/nixos/default.nix` rather than `flake.nix`
(cherry picked from commit c29b8ba142a0650d1182ca838ddc1b2d273dcd2a)
Change-Id: Ieae1b6476d95024485df7067e008013bc5542039
flake: Go back to regular `nixos-23.05-small`
(cherry picked from commit 1ed245a60672c123c1348a63061fb4d64fb95212)
Change-Id: I33f5fe20cd6bc658a461f560e458b440b3b7e18e
rl-next: Fix and support markdown frontmatter syntax
(cherry picked from commit 69b7876a0810269ad71807594cfd99b26cd8a5ff)
Change-Id: I8bfb8967af0943080fdd70d257c34abaf0a9fedf
Use positive source filtering for the standalone functional tests job and Perl bindings
(cherry picked from commit 6b6bd9003062c86a49d4384381941cf57f269c45)
Change-Id: I896be67654f893d543ed6beb5d0d0d6c6d36e027
Don't run the tests that require building if we're not building
(cherry picked from commit 8cfa582f436db8066eff74cb084990367e014ce6)
Change-Id: I6085ca6107349669407340d7a5e52639a2febc90
Unit test some worker protocol serializers
(cherry picked from commit c6faef61a6f31c71146aee5d88168e861df9a22a)
Change-Id: I99e36f5f17eb7642211a4e42a16b143424f164b4
Today, with the tests inside a `tests` intermingled with the
corresponding library's source code, we have a few problems:
- We have to be careful that wildcards don't end up with tests being
built as part of Nix proper, or test headers being installed as part
of Nix proper.
- Tests in libraries but not executables is not right:
- It means each executable runs the previous unit tests again, because
it needs the libraries.
- It doesn't work right on Windows, which doesn't want you to load a
DLL just for the side global variable . It could be made to work
with the dlopen equivalent, but that's gross!
This reorg solves these problems.
There is a remaining problem which is that sibbling headers (like
`hash.hh` the test header vs `hash.hh` the main `libnixutil` header) end
up shadowing each other. This PR doesn't solve that. That is left as
future work for a future PR.
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
(cherry picked from commit 91b6833686a6a6d9eac7f3f66393ec89ef1d3b57)
(cherry picked from commit a61e42adb528b3d40ce43e07c79368d779a8b624)
I think it is bad for these reasons when `tests/` contains a mix of
functional and integration tests
- Concepts is harder to understand, the documentation makes a good
unit vs functional vs integration distinction, but when the
integration tests are just two subdirs within `tests/` this is not
clear.
- Source filtering in the `flake.nix` is more complex. We need to
filter out some of the dirs from `tests/`, rather than simply pick
the dirs we want and take all of them. This is a good sign the
structure of what we are trying to do is not matching the structure
of the files.
With this change we have a clean:
```shell-session
$ git show 'HEAD:tests'
tree HEAD:tests
functional/
installer/
nixos/
```
(cherry picked from commit 68c81c737571794f7246db53fb4774e94fcf4b7e)
Interface has changed upstream.
It *should* be fine to test 23.05's other Nix versions as those
*should* succeed, but that's not the case and it's obfuscating
our terrible CI setup's log.
Source filtering is a really cool Nix feature that lets us avoid a
lot of rebuilds, which speeds up the iteration cycle a lot in cases
where the relevant source files aren't actually modified.
We used to have a source filter that marked a few files as irrelevant,
but this is the wrong approach, as we have many more files that are
irrelevant. We may call this negative filtering.
This commit switches the source filtering to positive filtering, which
is a lot more robust. Instead of marking which files we don't need
we marked the files that we do need.
It's a superior approach because it is fail safe. Instead of allowing
build performance problems to creep in over time, we require that all
source inputs are declared.
I shouldn't have to explain that declaring inputs is a good practice,
so I'll stop over-explaining here.
I do have to acknowledge that this will cause a build failure when the
filter is incomplete. This is *good*, because it's the only realistic
way we could be reminded of these problems. These events will be
infrequent, so the small cost of extending the filter is worth it,
compared to the hidden cost of longer dev cycles for things like tests,
docker image, etc, etc.
(Also rebuilding Nix for stupid unnecessary reasons makes my blood boil)
Previously, for tarball flakes, we recorded the original URL of the
tarball flake, rather than the URL to which it ultimately
redirects. Thus, a flake URL like
http://example.org/patchelf-latest.tar that redirects to
http://example.org/patchelf-<revision>.tar was not really usable. We
couldn't record the redirected URL, because sites like GitHub redirect
to CDN URLs that we can't rely on to be stable.
So now we use the redirected URL only if the server returns the
`x-nix-is-immutable` or `x-amz-meta-nix-is-immutable` headers in its
response.
Currently it gives a 500 error with "Do not know how to serve path
'/nix/store/bym5sm8z2wpavnvzancb9gjdlgyzs1l8-nix-internal-api-docs-2.15.0pre20230320_e37f436/share/doc/nix/internal-api'."
The motivation is as stated in issue #7814: even though the the C++ API
is internal and unstable, people still want it to be well documented for
sake of learning, code review, and other purposes that aren't predicated
on it being stable.
Fixes#7814
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
This was failing because the check for the existence of the
'installcheck' target failed silently, so the whole phase got
skipped. It works by running 'make -n installcheck 2> /dev/null',
which however barfs with
/nix/store/039g378vc3pc3dvi9dzdlrd0i4q93qwf-binutils-2.39/bin/ld.gold: error: cannot open tests/plugins/plugintest.o: No such file or directory
Fixes#8004.
Building without tests is useful for bootstrapping with a smaller footprint
or running the tests in a separate derivation. Otherwise, we do compile and
run them.
This isn't fine grained as to allow picking `check` but not `installcheck`
or vice versa, but it's good enough for now.
I've tried to use Nixpkgs' `checkInputs`, but those inputs weren't discovered
properly by the configure script. We can emulate its behavior very well though.
Some dependencies supposed to be skipped in the cross build, along with
not using the gold linker. But in https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6538
this was accidentally not preserved.
Also since https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/6538 we saw some new
aarch64-linux static build failures. This is a first attempt to try to
fix those failures. If this is not sufficient, there are other things we
can try next.
- `nixpkgsFor` does all of native, static, cross, and the different stdenvs.
- The main Nix derivation is no longer duplicated for static.
- DRY nixpkgs.lib and lib.genAttrs calls.
- Refer to current version in readme
- Split into flakes and non-flakes section
- Change order to move nix-build to the end, since people often start
with it in the beginning.
- Use proper "Note" syntax
- Add notes about editor integration
- Move information about target platforms and stdenvs into separate
sections
Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Bantyev <alexander.bantyev@tweag.io>
Co-authored-by: Théophane Hufschmitt <theophane.hufschmitt@tweag.io>
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