FS#63252 : kernel 5.2: regression in overlayfs causes snap and docker to fail

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FS#63252 - kernel 5.2: regression in overlayfs causes snap and docker to fail

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ludovic Fauvet (etix) - Monday, 22 July 2019, 10:33 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Saturday, 22 February 2020, 21:21 GMT

Task Type	Bug Report
Category	Kernel
Status	Closed
Assigned To	No-one
Architecture	All
Severity	High
Priority	Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version	Undecided
Due Date	Undecided
Percent Complete
Votes	2 Alexey Stukalov (alyst) (2019-09-17) Julio (The_Loko) (2019-09-11)
Private	No

Details

Description: A regression in overlayfs makes application like snap and docker to fail

Additional info:
* Kernel patch: https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs/+/0be0bfd2de9dfdd2098a9c5b14bdd8f739c9165d
* Issue on docker/moby: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/34672

Steps to reproduce:
* use kernel 5.2
* build a docker image
* the build fails with warnings about upper/work dir

The fix was apparently not yet merged in 5.2.2, applying the aforementioned patch should solve the issue until the final fix is pulled into the official kernel tree.

This task depends upon

Closed by freswa (frederik)
Saturday, 22 February 2020, 21:21 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: 5.3.1

Comments (9)
Related Tasks (0/0)

Comment by Ludovic Fauvet (etix) - Monday, 22 July 2019, 10:39 GMT

I forgot to mention that the patch was pulled in overlayfs-next and linux-next already.

Comment by Ludovic Fauvet (etix) - Tuesday, 30 July 2019, 09:19 GMT

Another issue to track: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/39475

Comment by Ludovic Fauvet (etix) - Wednesday, 04 September 2019, 07:57 GMT

Fixed in Docker 19.03.2 [1]
Related commit in moby [2]

[1] https://github.com/docker/docker-ce/releases/tag/v19.03.2
[2] https://github.com/moby/moby/commit/477bf1e413708076f9ed8cd316102765cc5bdb11

Comment by Julio (The_Loko) - Wednesday, 11 September 2019, 16:29 GMT

Field changed: Percent Complete (100% → 0%)

It still happens with linux 5.2.13.arch1-1 and docker 1:19.03.2-1

Comment by loqs (loqs) - Wednesday, 11 September 2019, 18:05 GMT

Has anyone contacted the kernel developers to find out why the commit is not in 5.3?

Comment by Ludovic Fauvet (etix) - Wednesday, 11 September 2019, 18:08 GMT

Actually, the problem is not on the kernel side. The kernel just enforced a check for an undefined behavior.

Comment by loqs (loqs) - Wednesday, 11 September 2019, 19:05 GMT

@etix do you have a less nasty fix for the docker PKGBUILD until there is a release containing 477bf1e413708076f9ed8cd316102765cc5bdb11 ?
Edit:
PKGBUILD2.diff switch to patch from git cherry-pick
Edit2:
PKGBUILD3.diff use ce5b02683e83ec9aa89927a9ce5d276787cc8823 [1]
PKGBUILD includes changes from PKGBUILD3.diff
@etix does the attached PKGBUILD resolve the issue for you?

[1] https://github.com/docker/docker-ce/commit/ce5b02683e83ec9aa89927a9ce5d276787cc8823