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authorAdam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>2022-07-17 01:23:27 -0700
committerAdam Joseph <adam@westernsemico.com>2022-07-17 01:23:32 -0700
commit6fc56318bf32f715de8634c199c0fb812f813a8c (patch)
tree1d944329abace1924b00b98733e1b56da4676afa
parent8d35f387dcfa61c59f898de88ef45f3f97817267 (diff)
local-derivation-goal.cc: add comment re: CLONE_NEWUSER
local-derivation-goal.cc contains a comment stating that "Some distros patch Linux to not allow unprivileged user namespaces." Let's give a pointer to a common version of this patch for those who want more details about this failure mode.
-rw-r--r--src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc b/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc
index 3aa85e264..1c7618045 100644
--- a/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/build/local-derivation-goal.cc
@@ -845,6 +845,7 @@ void LocalDerivationGoal::startBuilder()
/* Some distros patch Linux to not allow unprivileged
* user namespaces. If we get EPERM or EINVAL, try
* without CLONE_NEWUSER and see if that works.
+ * Details: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/d98e00eda6bea437e39b9e80444eee84a32438a6
*/
usingUserNamespace = false;
flags &= ~CLONE_NEWUSER;