Extend ConditionCPUFeature to support architecture prefixes in feature names.
The goal is avoiding ambiguities on mixed-arch fleets, where CPU feature names
may potentially conflict.
With this patch, ConditionCPUFeature=arm64.bti is now equivalent to
ConditionCPUFeature=bti on arm64 systems.
Add an override file for all capabilities missing in glibc v2.34 and musl
1.2.6. The constant AT_HWCAP3 is also not in glibc v2.34, ship a glibc-specific
elf.h in order to provide it.
Optimize dlopen ELF notes via anchoring and explicitly embed them into executables (#42908)
This PR optimizes the handling of `dlopen` ELF notes and reduces binary
footprints across the tree.
By enabling compiler section-splitting
(`-ffunction-sections`/`-fdata-sections`), the linker can now accurately
garbage-collect unused code and data. To align with this,
`SD_ELF_NOTE_DLOPEN_ANCHORED()` macro is introduced, which ties `dlopen`
notes to their calling functions so that unused notes are automatically
removed by `--gc-sections`.
Additionally, this explicitly embeds required `dlopen` notes into
individual executables to fix a visibility issue where package managers
missed runtime dependencies invoked indirectly through
`libsystemd-shared.so`.
--on-clock-change and --on-timezone-change are documented as shortcuts for
setting the corresponding timer properties with --timer-property=.
However, --timer-property= only treated the monotonic and calendar timer
settings as actual timer triggers. OnClockChange= and OnTimezoneChange=
were stored as timer properties, but arg_with_timer remained false and the
command was rejected as having no timer options.
Treat both properties as timer triggers too, matching the shortcut options
and the documented equivalent command line.
nspawn-oci: match the spec-correct "swappiness" memory field key
The OCI runtime specification names the memory swappiness knob
"swappiness" (memory.swappiness), but the dispatch table
in oci_cgroup_memory() registered it as "swapiness".
Since sd_json_dispatch_full() matches object keys by exact string
comparison, a spec-correct config carrying "swappiness" never hit the
intended oci_unsupported() handler and was instead routed to the
bad-field callback oci_unexpected(), which returns -EINVAL and thus
fails the whole memory cgroup section.
Register the correct key so that real OCI bundles parse, keep the
misspelt one around for compatibility, mark both as such, and drop the
now-resolved reminder from the file header TODO list.
condition: split condition_test_list() to minimize dlopen dependencies
Even though systemd-networkd and systemd-udevd do not support
ConditionSecurity= in .network, .netdev, and .link files, the unified
condition_test() function maintained a function pointer table that
unconditionally referenced condition_test_security(). Consequently,
linker garbage collection (--gc-sections) could not drop the security
test code, inadvertently pulling in dlopen dependencies and ELF notes
for apparmor, audit, and tpm2 libraries into these binaries.
To resolve this, introduce condition_test_net() and condition_test_list_net(),
which utilize a trimmed-down function pointer table that excludes
security-related condition evaluators.
By migrating networkd and udevd to these new network-specific variants,
the reference to condition_test_security() is completely severed in
their dependency chains. This allows the compiler and linker to
successfully garbage-collect the unused security logic and safely drops
the unnecessary dlopen notes from those binaries.
compress: split compress_blob() and friends to minimize dlopen dependencies
Previously, even though sd-journal does not support bzip2 and gzip
compression, the dlopen ELF notes for those libraries were still being
attached to libsystemd.so and various journal-handling executables.
This occurred because the unified compression/decompression interfaces
handled all formats unconditionally, causing the compiler and linker to
pull in all associated dlopen notes across the board.
To resolve this, split these functions into generic and journal-specific
variants (e.g., introducing compress_blob_journal() and decompress_blob_journal()).
The journal-specific variants only handle formats actually supported by
the journal (LZ4, XZ, and ZSTD).
By updating sd-journal, journald, journalctl, and related utilities to
use these new `_journal` interfaces and switching them to the narrower
COMPRESS_JOURNAL_NOTE macro, we ensure that unnecessary dlopen notes
(for bzip2 and gzip) are no longer embedded into these binaries.
Enable the `dlopen` unit test suite in GitHub Actions, except for the
following configurations where linker garbage collection (`--gc-sections`)
or dead-code elimination fails to drop unused dlopen symbols:
This introduces a test utility to validate the presence and correctness
of dlopen ELF notes.
The test extracts and compares dlopen ELF notes between the dynamic and
static versions of target binaries to catch missing entries. Furthermore,
it scans the code for dlopen_foo() invocations to ensure that no stale or
unused notes remain in the final binary, thereby verifying the linker's
garbage-collection integration.
sd-dlopen: introduce _dlopen_loader_ macro to prevent inlining and cloning
When compiler optimization or LTO (Link Time Optimization) is enabled,
dlopen helper functions (such as dlopen_libfoo()) can be aggressively
inlined into their callers or cloned for specific call sites.
While this is beneficial for production builds, it alters or completely
removes the original function symbols from the final executable.
Consequently, this breaks the test (to be added in this series) that
checks whether the dlopen_libfoo() function corresponding to a dlopen
ELF note is actually called.
To resolve this, introduce the `_dlopen_loader_` macro. Under developer
builds, it applies the `_noclone_` and `_noinline_` attributes to guarantee
that helper symbols remain intact and discoverable by the test suite. In
production builds, the macro evaluates to nothing, allowing full compiler
optimization to proceed unimpeded.
tree-wide: embed dlopen notes into individual executables
Previously, when a library was dynamically loaded via a helper function
inside libsystemd-shared.so, the resulting dlopen ELF note was not
propagated to the invoking executable's ELF metadata.
This commit explicitly annotates each executable with the relevant
dlopen ELF notes for any optional dependencies it might potentially
load. This ensures that package managers and build systems can properly
discover runtime dependencies that are triggered indirectly.
The new SD_ELF_NOTE_DLOPEN_ANCHORED() macro utilizes the 'o' assembler
flag (SHF_LINK_ORDER), which requires binutils >= 2.35 or LLVM >= 18.
If an LLVM version older than 18 is encountered, the macro automatically
falls back to the non-anchored variant.
This non-anchored fallback relies on the 'R' (SHF_GNU_RETAIN) flag,
which requires binutils >= 2.36 or LLVM >= 13.
Since the codebase now unconditionally adopts SD_ELF_NOTE_DLOPEN_ANCHORED()
tree-wide, the effective minimum toolchain requirements become:
- binutils >= 2.35 (to support the 'o' flag)
- LLVM/Clang >= 13 (to support the 'R' flag fallback for versions < 18)
Update the minimal toolchain versions in the README to reflect these
requirements for building systemd.
dlopen-note: move all dlopen notes to dlopen-note.h
This also switches all these notes to be defined via SD_ELF_NOTE_DLOPEN_ANCHORED().
Consequently, any notes added within unreachable or unused functions will be
automatically garbage-collected by the linker (--gc-sections) instead of
bloating the final binary.
E.g. unused p11-kit library dependency is now dropped from
systemd-repart.standalone binary.
Before:
```
$ systemd-analyze dlopen-metadata build/systemd-repart.standalone
FEATURE DESCRIPTION SONAME PRIORITY
cryptsetup Support for disk encryption, integrity, and authentication libcryptsetup.so.12 recommended
blkid Support for block device identification libblkid.so.1 required
libcrypto Support for cryptographic operations libcrypto.so.4 libcrypto.so.3 recommended
mount Support for mount enumeration libmount.so.1 required
fdisk Support for reading and writing partition tables libfdisk.so.1 required
blkid Support for block device identification libblkid.so.1 recommended
libcrypto Support for cryptographic operations libcrypto.so.4 libcrypto.so.3 suggested
cryptsetup Support for disk encryption, integrity, and authentication libcryptsetup.so.12 suggested
fdisk Support for reading and writing partition tables libfdisk.so.1 suggested
idn Support for internationalized domain names libidn2.so.0 suggested
mount Support for mount enumeration libmount.so.1 recommended
selinux Support for SELinux libselinux.so.1 recommended
tpm Support for TPM libtss2-esys.so.0 suggested
tpm Support for TPM libtss2-rc.so.0 suggested
tpm Support for TPM libtss2-mu.so.0 suggested
tpm Support for TPM libtss2-tcti-device.so.0 suggested
p11-kit Support for PKCS11 hardware tokens libp11-kit.so.0 suggested
```
After:
```
$ systemd-analyze dlopen-metadata build/systemd-repart.standalone
FEATURE DESCRIPTION SONAME PRIORITY
cryptsetup Support for disk encryption, integrity, and authentication libcryptsetup.so.12 recommended
blkid Support for block device identification libblkid.so.1 required
libcrypto Support for cryptographic operations libcrypto.so.4 libcrypto.so.3 recommended
mount Support for mount enumeration libmount.so.1 required
fdisk Support for reading and writing partition tables libfdisk.so.1 required
blkid Support for block device identification libblkid.so.1 recommended
libcrypto Support for cryptographic operations libcrypto.so.4 libcrypto.so.3 suggested
cryptsetup Support for disk encryption, integrity, and authentication libcryptsetup.so.12 suggested
fdisk Support for reading and writing partition tables libfdisk.so.1 suggested
mount Support for mount enumeration libmount.so.1 recommended
selinux Support for SELinux libselinux.so.1 recommended
tpm Support for TPM libtss2-esys.so.0 suggested
tpm Support for TPM libtss2-rc.so.0 suggested
tpm Support for TPM libtss2-mu.so.0 suggested
tpm Support for TPM libtss2-tcti-device.so.0 suggested
```
SD_ELF_NOTE_DLOPEN_ANCHORED() emits a .note.dlopen ELF note that is
"anchored" to a dummy symbol via the SHF_LINK_ORDER ('o') section flag,
in addition to SHF_GROUP ('G') for folding identical notes together.
Unlike the plain SD_ELF_NOTE_DLOPEN() macro, this variant ties the
note's lifetime to a dummy symbol named with the specified tag: if the
linker's --gc-sections removes the function that calls the macro (e.g.
because the function is never referenced), the associated .note.dlopen
entry is garbage-collected along with it.
Currently, the new macro is unused in our code, but all dlopen notes
will be generated with this in later commits.
meson: add -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections to compiler flags
Enable compiler section splitting for functions and data to allow the
linker's `--gc-sections` optimization to accurately drop unused code.
Note that in highly optimized production builds with Link-Time Optimization
(LTO) enabled (such as `-Db_lto=true`), the compiler already performs
intensive dead-code elimination, resulting in negligible binary size changes
from this change.
However, explicit section splitting provides clear benefits in other areas:
1. Significant size reduction for `.standalone` executables and libraries
in non-LTO environments.
2. Crucially, it provides the necessary infrastructure for the linker to
garbage-collect unused `dlopen` metadata notes implemented in subsequent
commits, ensuring precise dependency tracking regardless of the LTO state.
Below is a binary size comparison (unstripped) across different build types:
- `build-debug`: `-Dbuildtype=debug`
- `build-plain`: `-Dbuildtype=plain` (without LTO)
- `build-plain-lto`: `-Dbuildtype=plain -Db_lto=true`
meson: support building .standalone variants for shared modules
Extend the module building logic to automatically generate '.standalone'
variants for non-NSS/PAM shared modules (such as cryptsetup tokens).
Like standalone executables, these are not built by default to keep
the base build time unaffected, but can be built explicitly on demand
via `ninja <module_name>.standalone`.
meson: automate .standalone variant generation via extended 'install' field
Extend the 'install' keyword for executable definitions to accept four
modes—'yes', 'no', 'both', and 'static'—to elegantly manage the creation
and installation of both shared and statically-linked (.standalone) binaries.
- 'yes' / 'no': Standard behavior (mapped to true/false).
- 'both': Installs both the shared and static variants.
- 'static': Installs the static variant under the original name, while
suffixing the uninstalled shared variant with '.shared'.
With this change, any arbitrary executable can now have its `.standalone`
variant built on demand simply by invoking `ninja <target>.standalone`.
For example, `varlinkctl` did not previously support a standalone variant,
but it can now be built explicitly via `ninja varlinkctl.standalone`.
These `.standalone` binaries are not built by default unless explicitly
specified as a ninja target or enabled via `-Dstandalone-binaries=true`.
Thus, the default build time should remain unaffected.
This centralisation eliminates a massive amount of boilerplate and duplicated
target declarations across almost all subdirectories (e.g., systemd-repart,
systemd-tmpfiles, systemd-shutdown, and systemd-report tools).
systemd-resolved already has a dns_scope_free() function in
resolved-dns-scope.c for DnsScope. Since the one in dns-configuration.c
is only used internally, make it static.
This is necessary to allow systemd-resolved to be statically linked
with libsystemd-shared without symbol conflicts.
Kai Lüke [Mon, 6 Jul 2026 13:54:38 +0000 (22:54 +0900)]
cryptsetup: Give NV index missing its own error code
To be able to continue trying other tokens to unlock a disk the missing
NV index case was mapped to EREMOTE (foreign TPM) which was ok because
this mostly happens when trying to unlock on another system. Still it
might be useful to deal with NV index errors differently.
Give it its own EADDRNOTAVAIL error and handle it at all call sites.
Kai Lüke [Thu, 2 Jul 2026 13:49:46 +0000 (22:49 +0900)]
cryptsetup: Skip tokens with JSON parsing errors
The plugin already continues on parsing errors but the fallback path
not. The plugin swallows ENOMEM as well which is too much, though.
Continue on JSON parsing errors by mapping them to EUCLEAN in
cryptsetup_get_token_as_json and handle that in any call site, not just
the TPM fallback path but also others.
Kai Lüke [Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:26:37 +0000 (23:26 +0900)]
cryptsetup: Reduce log level for TPM mismatches
When we iterate over tokens we should not print mismatches as errors
but rather warnings. At the end there is still a summary with the
notice level (gated by found_some) which the user can relate to the
warnings.
Kai Lüke [Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:07:13 +0000 (23:07 +0900)]
cryptsetup: Remap bad PCR set early to EPERM
Currently libcryptsetup's look treats ENOANO special because it's used
to signal PIN requirement. But the bad PCR set can also contain ENOANO
for a mismatch from a PolicyOR branch.
To continue iterating, remap the bad PCR set to EPERM early. This would
in theory also allow us to simplify the matching for the iteration
condition but we leave this as is for now to prevent a future
regression.
Kai Lüke [Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:38:13 +0000 (22:38 +0900)]
TEST-70-TPM2.cryptsetup: Make sure we iterate over foreign tokens
When we enroll two UKIs with different PCR pub keys into one LUKS slot/
token each, we can encounter the wrong one and should not give up
but continue iterating.
Kai Lüke [Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:22:16 +0000 (22:22 +0900)]
tpm2-util: Also report EREMOTE if key is for different parent template
We already report foreign TPM keys (wrapped for different parent) but
this is not enough because when also a different template was used, we
don't get TPM2_RC_INTEGRITY but TPM2_RC_SIZE.
Also cover TPM2_RC_SIZE to report EREMOTE so that we can continue to
iterate over LUKS tokens instead of giving up.
Kai Lüke [Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:27:59 +0000 (20:27 +0900)]
tpm2-util: For NV index errors report EREMOTE to be able to continue
When we have many LUKS slots and not all are for our TPM, we can get an
NV index error when it's missing or has wrong content.
Instead of fully erroring out, map these encounters to EREMOTE like we
do for a foreign TPM key.
Kai Lüke [Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:45:22 +0000 (18:45 +0900)]
tpm2-util: Align tpm2_import with tpm2_load to report on foreign keys
When we encounter a key for a foreign TPM we report that as EREMOTE in
tpm2_load but not yet in tpm2_import. This causes cryptsetup to give up
on using the TPM instead of being able to continue with out tokens.
Do the same mapping as in tpm2_load in tpm2_import to report EREMOTE on
foreign keys.
Kai Lüke [Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:55:57 +0000 (15:55 +0900)]
cryptsetup/cryptenroll: Iterate over TPM tokens when they don't match
When we enroll two UKIs with different PCR pub keys into one LUKS slot/
token each, then we can encounter the wrong one and should not give up
but continue iterating instead of requiring the passphrase. Similarly,
a pcrlock token might be for another UKI and we should continue the
search. Same for a token that is meant for another TPM (e.g., external
storage). While this is mainly about cryptsetup's automatic unlocking
from the initrd, it also matters for usage in the system, e.g., for
other storage and when cryptenroll should unlock using the TPM.
There are two code paths, one is the libcryptsetup plugin and the other
is the fallback when that's not available.
To let the libcryptsetup loop continue to iterate, remap the above
error conditions to EPERM. For the fallback path check all of them (no
remapping) and continue iteration. For better log output, include the
token ID to be able understand which token fails.
When we enroll two UKIs with different PCR pub keys into one LUKS slot/
token each, then we can encounter the wrong one and should report it
with a clearer error than the generic "Failed to unseal secret using
TPM2".
So when we don't have the right signature, report this as separate
error.
Kai Lüke [Thu, 9 Jul 2026 08:35:42 +0000 (17:35 +0900)]
stub: Set up all detected consoles
With no console= given the kernel will use the graphical console and if
we give one console= then that will be used instead. But sometimes we
want both a serial console and a graphical one to work. This would be
consistent with the EFI menu and sd-boot showing on both already. It
also makes the impact of a wrongly detected-but-missing VirtIO console
lower when we emit it alongside of the other consoles we detect.
Collect all detected consoles and emit them via console= with the same
priority we used before to select them. This means for the main console
there is no change but we get additional ones enabled. This helps with
boot output and having a login presented, yet the main console is still
special and gets the emergency output at boot (we should somehow surface
that on the additional consoles but that's another topic). If we only
see the graphical console (or none), we don't need to emit anything a
the kernel already selects it itself. This also avoids suppressing the
non-x86 kernel serial console detection. As mentioned above, the VirtIO
console being wrongly added is now also less impactful. But for non-x86
ACPI case we could detect the serial so that console=hvc0 won't stop the
kernel serial auto-detection.
Kai Lüke [Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:53:40 +0000 (23:53 +0900)]
mount-util/sysext: Clone sub mounts as private to preserve nested ones
When nested mounts appear under a sysext hierarchy like this:
mkdir -p /opt/trigger/
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /opt/trigger
mkdir -p /opt/trigger/inner
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /opt/trigger/inner
Then systemd-sysext merge will lose the inner mount because it uses a
regular bind mount with propagation and then unmounts the source,
unmounting all children with it which propagates (as found out in
https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/issues/2111).
To solve this, clone the sub mount with MS_PRIVATE to decouple sub
mounts from the original mount. Then attach the cloned mount instead of
doing regular bind mounts. For old kernels we still attach the cloned
mount but we fallback to cloning without MS_PRIVATE. This change also
affects mount_private_apivfs which is used for private /proc, /sys, and
cgroupfs but I think it makes sense there, too, instead of only doing
mount_setattr for sysext alone because, e.g., a container and the host
should not be leaking mount actions into each other for these mounts.
Kai Lüke [Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:04:51 +0000 (22:04 +0900)]
mount-util: Compact list of sub mounts after dropping
When nested mounts appear under a sysext hierarchy like this:
mkdir -p /opt/trigger/
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /opt/trigger
mkdir -p /opt/trigger/inner
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /opt/trigger/inner
Then systemd-sysext merge hit an assertion reported in
https://github.com/flatcar/Flatcar/issues/2111 because when it iterates
over the list of sub mounts it doesn't expect entries with NULL in the
path from the dropped entries.
Instead of having to deal with entries with path NULL, better sort the
holes from dropping to the end and then reduce the array length.
Translations update from [Fedora
Weblate](https://translate.fedoraproject.org) for
[systemd/main](https://translate.fedoraproject.org/projects/systemd/main/).
Patterns such as foo_@v/bar.efi are documented to
match files in versioned subdirectories,
but pattern_match() assumed that a field is
always followed by a literal when another element exists.
Handle a following slash as a delimiter too,
and request another recursion step
when the current path ends before that slash.
core: connect to sockets in credential directories
Recursive credential directory loading intentionally
includes socket entries, but load_credential()
only enabled AF_UNIX socket handling for absolute paths.
Let the recursive directory path request socket
connections explicitly, and update the stale comment for directory-fd reads.
sysupdate: load a per-component *.component file (#42935)
This is split out of #42651, because for some reason Claude refuses to
review that PR, probably because it's too large. Hence let's try this
piecemeal.
This has integration tests in #42651 (which passed). And docs too.
When copying a directory into an image, open an existing destination
with O_NOFOLLOW before passing it to copy_tree_at(). This rejects a
symlink used as the final destination component without a separate
stat-before-use check.
Previously the pre-opened destination followed that symlink. That
allowed --copy-to to be redirected outside the image root when the
image was a directory tree.
If the destination does not exist yet, keep delegating creation to
copy_tree_at(). Real existing directories still use COPY_MERGE through
the opened directory fd.
shared: fix DNS RR wire cache and EFI boot option bounds checks (#42926)
Invalidate cached DNS RR wire format when
`dns_resource_record_clamp_ttl()` updates `rr->ttl` in place.
Validate each EFI `Boot####` device-path node length before reading
subtype-specific fields.
journal-remote: do not create /var/log/journal/remote (#42937)
This handling with tmpfiles was dropped in 29444df23bea21c15a3284ad8acfe2f008e5dbae. So let's stop the build system
to create that directory. Actually it is create by the service just
fine, including correct access mode.
Kai Lüke [Wed, 8 Jul 2026 15:25:11 +0000 (00:25 +0900)]
stub: Prefer graphical console over virtio detection heuristic
With vmspawn --console=gui and similar one has the case where the VirtIO
PCI device is present for something else than the console and the logic
in sd-stub added console=hvc0 even though it didn't exist. This caused
tty0 to be empty during boot.
Always prefer the graphical console before a potential virtio console.
The virtio console is still preferred over a serial console and we can
get the same problem there, e.g., qemu-guest-agent is used causing the
PCI device but without a virtio console and instead a serial console is
used. This is not solved here.
When seat_trigger_devices() produces no pending uevents,
seat_triggered_uevents_done() runs in the same call stack as
session_start() and tests session->started before the assignment
further down. The check fails, session_device_resume_all() is
skipped, and the compositor never receives DRM master.
Set started before seat_read_active_vt() so the gate sees the
correct value, and document the ordering constraint at the call
site to prevent regression.
Reproducible with greetd plus a Wayland compositor on the same VT
on kernel 6.19+.
Christian Hesse [Wed, 8 Jul 2026 17:37:38 +0000 (19:37 +0200)]
journal-remote: do not create /var/log/journal/remote
This handling with tmpfiles was dropped in 29444df23bea21c15a3284ad8acfe2f008e5dbae. So let's stop the build system
to create that directory. Actually it is create by the service just
fine, including correct access mode.
efi_get_boot_option() validates the overall Boot#### variable size and
the advertised device-path byte count, but then walks each device-path
node without first checking that the node header and subtype payload fit
in the remaining buffer.
A malformed Boot#### variable could make the parser read past the end of
the current node, or past the available device-path data.
Limit parsing to the bytes that are actually present, and stop walking
the device path when a malformed node is encountered. This keeps the
previous best-effort behaviour for fields parsed before the anomaly while
avoiding out-of-bounds reads.
dns_resource_record_clamp_ttl() may patch the TTL in place when the
record has a single reference. dnssec_fix_rrset_ttl() also updates TTLs
after canonical wire-format data may have been cached.
If a record already has cached wire-format data, that cache still
contains the old TTL and dns_resource_record_to_wire_format() will keep
reusing it.
Add a small helper to clear the cached wire-format state, and use it
whenever the TTL changes. This makes subsequent serialization match the
record fields.
Michal Sekletar [Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:19:27 +0000 (15:19 +0200)]
socket-util: fix socket_xattr_supported() in initramfs
Don't test xattr support on socket created in filesystem. This doesn't
work in initramfs when /tmp doesn't have tmpfs mounted inside as
initramfs doesn't have xattr support. Setting socket xattr falls back to
parent directory xattr handlers when we work with FS based socket.
Let's test sockfs based socket instead so that the check is generic and
works in all environments.
resolved: honour per-link DNSOverTLS=yes for certificate verification
dnstls_stream_connect_tls() reads the manager-wide dns_over_tls_mode
field directly, so when the global mode was 'no' or 'opportunistic' but
a link was configured with strict DNSOverTLS=yes, the DoT connection
was established without SSL_VERIFY_PEER or hostname/IP checks.
Use dns_server_get_dns_over_tls_mode() which honours the per-link
override.
When a rate limit is armed, for example via StartLimitInterval=, and the
machine is suspended, the rate limit's "clock" is suspended as well,
since the elapse checks use CLOCK_MONOTONIC. This then causes unexpected
situations where a rate limit armed via StartLimitInterval=1h, followed
by a 10 hour suspend, would elapse after 11 hours total.
Let's avoid this by switching the rate limits to CLOCK_BOOTTIME, which
works the same as CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but accounts for the time spent in
suspend as well.
There's one slight concern when it comes to upgrade path - the old
"begin" value of the rate limit is stored as CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but after
upgrading systemd and serializing/deserializing the state it will be
suddenly compared against now(CLOCK_BOOTTIME), which might cause some
rate limits to elapse "prematurely". But this is just a one-time thing,
after which the rate limit timers should re-assess themselves.
fsck_mode_from_string() and fsck_repair_from_string() return -EINVAL
on a bad value. Store the result in a local variable first, and only
update the global state on success.
Otherwise an invalid value is logged as ignored, but still leaves a
negative enum value behind. In the fsck.repair case that makes
fsck_repair_option_to_string() return NULL and truncates the fsck
command line.
bootctl: Fix prepend when installing systemd-boot for the first time
In commit 38433a6d06ef ("bootctl: rework bootctl-install.c in preparation of varlinkification"),
the `first` argument of install_boot_option() was reworked to use the
new InstallContext struct/InstallOperation. `first` was intended to
indicate if we were on the install path, so the check should be
== INSTALL_NEW, not != INSTALL_NEW.
Fixes: 38433a6d06ef ("bootctl: rework bootctl-install.c in preparation of varlinkification")
measure-smbios: bound type 1 length before zeroing wake-up type
The structure length comes from the firmware SMBIOS table and the only
bound before the fixed-offset wake_up_type write was an assert(), which
is a no-op in release sd-boot builds.
Whether the field is present is governed by the formatted-area length
header->length, not the total size which also covers the trailing string
set. A too-short record (an old SMBIOS 2.0 one, or a crafted 6-byte
header) makes the offset-24 write land past the xmemdup() copy; a record
with a short formatted area but long string set instead gets a stable
string byte zeroed in the copy. Key the guard off header->length and the
field offset, matching get_smbios_table(), and measure such records
as-is. Zero only the part of the field that lies within the formatted
area, and collapse the two measure_smbios_raw() call sites by selecting
what to measure via a pointer.
Signed-off-by: Syed Mohammed Nayyar <jmestwa@gmail.com>
Lars Sjöstrom [Thu, 2 Jul 2026 08:08:03 +0000 (10:08 +0200)]
core: support stdio fd passing in io.systemd.Unit.StartTransient
Add StandardInputFileDescriptor, StandardOutputFileDescriptor and
StandardErrorFileDescriptor to the Service context of the Varlink
StartTransient() method. Each carries the push-order index of a file descriptor
passed along with the method call (via SCM_RIGHTS), and connects it to the
transient service's standard input/output/error. This is the Varlink equivalent
of the StandardInputFileDescriptor= / StandardOutputFileDescriptor= /
StandardErrorFileDescriptor= D-Bus transient properties behind
"systemd-run --pipe", which had no Varlink counterpart.
The manager Varlink server now enables SD_VARLINK_SERVER_ALLOW_FD_PASSING_INPUT
so clients may attach descriptors to their method calls, matching other
fd-accepting Varlink services (mountfsd, networkd, vmspawn, ...). The indices are
resolved with sd_varlink_peek_dup_fd() after the polkit authorization check and
stored on the Service exactly like the D-Bus path
(bus_set_transient_exec_context_fd()): the fds land in stdin_fd/stdout_fd/
stderr_fd and exec_context.stdio_as_fds is set, so the existing exec-invoke
plumbing wires them to the spawned process unchanged. Unsuitable fds (bad
index, wrong access mode) are rejected as InvalidParameter, other resolution
failures propagate as raw errnos.
Add coverage to TEST-74-AUX-UTILS.varlinkctl-unit.sh, passing regular files as
the stdout/stderr fds and asserting the unit's output lands on them.
sysinstall: Disable timeout for connection with repart
The repart connection was timeing out when fetching candidate devices.
Therfore disable the timeout and keep the connection open till the user
disconnects.
portable: fix marker_matches_images() and propagate errors correctly
marker_matches_images() was declared to return bool, but several of its
paths return a negative errno (OOM, parse errors, etc.). A negative int
coerces to true, so every such failure was reported as a "match".
Return int with the tristate semantics the callers already expect.
When detaching by image name instead of the original path, path_pick() may
not resolve a concrete path (e.g. a runtime overlay). Keep comparing the
caller-provided image name, and use the picked path only as an additional
canonical match when it exists.
journald: replace existing syslog event source before reopening
manager_open_syslog_socket() may be called again with an already open
syslog fd. In that case the old syslog event source still watches the
fd, so adding a new IO source for the same fd fails with -EEXIST and
leaves the old source installed.
Disable and unref the old event source before adding the replacement.
This keeps reopening idempotent and avoids leaving a stale event source
around.
journald: pin the sending client's context across native message dispatch
manager_process_native_message() looks up the sender's ClientContext with
client_context_get(), which does not pin it.
A native message may carry an OBJECT_PID=, which makes
manager_dispatch_message_real() perform a nested client_context_get() for that
PID. On a cache miss this runs client_context_try_shrink_to(), whose pid-flush
branch frees every unpinned cache entry whose PID has already been reaped,
including the borrowed sender context. manager_dispatch_message_real() then keeps
using it (it reads c->uid, and the built iovecs still alias the context's
fields).
Pin the sender context with client_context_acquire() for the duration of the
dispatch and release it afterwards, mirroring what the stdout stream path
already does.
Commit edea370222 (portable: remove drop-in configs even if the main unit file does not exist)
taught detach to handle leftover .service.d directories
after the main unit symlink was removed.
portable_get_state_internal() still had the same blind
spot: it only considered regular unit entries, so portablectl
is-attached could report detached while a portable drop-in directory was still present.
Handle those drop-in-only entries like detach does, preserve
the existing unit-file based enabled checks when the
main unit file is still present, and add TEST-29 coverage.
sbsign: write unaligned signature size into WIN_CERTIFICATE header
The inclusion of padding bytes in the signature size can lead to the signature
being rejected by strict PKCS7 parsers. Meanwhile, according to [1], the parser
of the WIN_CERTIFICATE structure is expected to round up the value of dwLength
to an 8-byte multiple. This also matches the behaviour of the sbsign tool from
sbsigntools.
Once link_tmpfile_at() succeeds, the target path
has been published. Avoid unlinking it on later
close or parent fsync failures when COPY_REPLACE
was used, as that can remove the replaced target.
meson: build .standalone versions of the report binaries
The goal is to be allow the use of those binaries on systemd with older
systemd. The report stuff is generally independent of the running systemd
version.
When built with -Dinstall-tests=true -Dstandalone-binaries=true
-Dbuildtype=release -Db_lto=true, gcc-16.1.1-2.fc44.x86_64, the sizes
are quite reasonable:
We have two concepts: a list of files that should be extracted from an
intermediate build artifact to be used in a later build artifact, and for a
given artifact, a list "donors". The first list was called "extract", because
it is passed to the .extract_objects() meson function, and the second was
called "objects", because that is the meson parameter to specify pre-built
objects files (6350d2dbd97746440b9c8303ddc140ffda568732). But this naming is
confusing: we don't care about the 'extract' step, this is something internal
to the build machinery. And 'objects' is a very generic term.
Let's use 'export' for the stuff that is "exported" for other binaries to use,
and 'import' to say where to import from. Those terms are symmetrical and the
association between them should be intuitive. (If you think the terms are
actually assymetrical, there are precedents for confusing the import with the
import sources. E.g. in modern English, turkeys are called so because they were
imported from the Americas and guineafowls were imported from Africa via
Türkiye and all that foreign stuff is alike.)
* 45c16dd369 Use uniform format for %rhel conditionals
* 034fa693f2 Print the build status also in %build
* 3cc7e03365 Restore definitions of helper macros
* 2382c910b7 Disable the standalone report yet again
* 2d6fd95c70 Restore explicit requires for Centos Stream 9 and 10
* 521ab0fb09 test: skip the integration test suite on Fedora ELN (for now)
* 453447b79b rpminspect: ignore test-coredump-stacktrace in annocheck
* 9d4edaa576 test: work around a kernel bug in virtio/vsock
* c53b2fb307 test: cap the number of parallel tests
* 9bd26bb71f Fix ntpvendor for ELN
* de7b685908 Disable reqs for dlopen'ed libraries on CentOS
* 4830641844 Move portabled to systemd-container subpackage
* 893fcd9978 Add missing conditionalization and more debugging
* c783e74791 split-files: improve error message
* ee2dff42d6 Add systemd-report-standalone
* 9c87a3f8ad Load libssl.so.4 rather than libssl.so.3
* 714b0799d2 Version 261.1
* 054158500a Update to load openssl-4 rather than openssl-3
* 5a3e750ef8 Version 261
* 4faee7ab7d Version 261~rc4
* 8ff635a921 Rebuilt for openssl 4.0
* 0064f73d97 Rebuilt for openssl 4.0
* 14a9aac87e Use dlopen notes again
* 720fa8259a Do not check ownership of /var/lib/systemd/timesync/ in rpm -V
* 06bd9926f2 Version 261~rc3
* 6ddbd499e8 Drop unused tree build dependency
* bd81a14bfc Version 261~rc2
Michael Vogt [Thu, 2 Jul 2026 13:27:06 +0000 (15:27 +0200)]
journalctl: add follow mode to the varlink method
This commit implements `journalctl -f` like behavior for the
varlink API of journalctl. It is used via:
```
$ varlinkctl call -E \
/run/systemd/io.systemd.JournalAccess \
io.systemd.JournalAccess.GetEntries '{"follow": true, "limit": 10}'
```
This gives the last 10 message and then it keeps the connection
open and output each new log line that matches the set filters.
The code is modeled after `journalctl -f`. It seems there is little
to extract into shared code here so I left it for now.
resolve: anchor the service browser from mDNS maintenance queries
mdns_maintenance_query() takes a ref on the browser's varlink link but
never installs itself as that link's userdata. dns_query_free() then
unconditionally runs sd_varlink_set_userdata(varlink_request, NULL),
so freeing any maintenance query wipes the browse query's registration
on the shared sb->link slot, disabling the abort paths in
vl_on_disconnect() and dns_service_browser_free(). The maintenance
query also never takes a reference on the DnsServiceBrowser, so a client
disconnect could free the browser while a maintenance query was still
in flight, leaving the per-service schedule_event timer and the raw
service->service_browser back-pointer dangling (use-after-free on the
next timer tick or query completion).
Take a service_browser_request reference instead, matching the browse
query path. dns_query_free() already drops it. The browser now outlives
its in-flight maintenance queries.
link_request_sr_iov_vfs() queued each request with a raw SRIOV* as
userdata and a NULL free_func, so the request did not own the object.
The SRIOV is owned by link->network->sr_iov_by_section, which is freed
by network_free() on reload while the RTM_SETLINK reply may still be in
flight (the floating netlink slot keeps the request alive but does not
keep the userdata alive). A later reply, or the 25s netlink timeout,
then dispatches sr_iov_handler() which reads the freed SRIOV.
udev: clear event back-pointer when freeing a worker
worker_free() did not clear worker->event->worker, leaving an event
that was still attached to a worker pointing at freed memory once the
worker was gone. manager_free() frees the workers (hashmap_free())
before it walks manager->events to process them, and event_free() then
writes event->worker->event = NULL into the already-freed worker.
Clear the back-pointer in worker_free(), mirroring event_free() which
already clears the worker's pointer. The link used to be torn down by
the event_free(worker->event) call in worker_free(), which was dropped
when events became reference counted.
The Event and Worker definitions move to udev-manager.h (next to
Manager) so the unit test can construct and free a bound worker/event
pair.
sd-bus: drop half-registered vtable members on failure
add_object_vtable_internal() inserts BusVTableMember entries into the
global vtable_methods/vtable_properties sets as it walks the vtable, but
only sets node_vtable.node (which gates the disconnect-time cleanup)
after the loop. A failure mid-loop thus left the already-inserted
members behind, dangling once the slot's interface string and the node's
path were freed, so a later registration reading those keys hit a
use-after-free. Remove this slot's members on the fail path.
The test asserts the failed registration leaves no member behind.
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