Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Fix startup of LXC containers with filesystems containing symlinks

From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; Given an LXC guest with a root filesystem path of /export/lxc/roots/helloworld/root During startup, we will pivot the root filesystem to end up at /.oldroot/export/lxc/roots/helloworld/root We then try to open /.oldroot/export/lxc/roots/helloworld/root/dev/pts Now consider if '/export/lxc' is an absolute symlink pointing to '/media/lxc'. The kernel will try to open /media/lxc/roots/helloworld/root/dev/pts whereas it should be trying to open /.oldroot//media/lxc/roots/helloworld/root/dev/pts To deal with the fact that the root filesystem can be moved, we need to resolve symlinks in *any* part of the filesystem source path.

+++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms @@ -1100,6 +1100,7 @@ virFileOpenTty; virFileReadAll; virFileReadLimFD; virFileResolveLink; +virFileResolveAllLinks;