Re: [libvirt] Fwd: libvirtd failing on MacOS in setgroups

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 05:55:51PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:47:03PM -0400, Marcus Furlong wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 08:23, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:11:07AM -0400, Marcus Furlong wrote: > > > > Resend to libvir-list in case that is more appropriate: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I get the following error when running libvirtd on MacOS as root: > > > > > > > > 2019-07-11 00:12:33.673+0000: 123145573953536: error : > > > > qemuProcessQMPLaunch:8501 : internal error: Failed to start QEMU > > > > binary /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 for probing: libvirt: error > > > > : cannot set supplemental groups: Invalid argument > > > > > > Are you able to run 'strace' (or whatever MacOS eqiuv is) to see > > > the values passed to setgroups when it fails ? > > > > I ran `dtruss -f -l -s /usr/local/sbin/libvirtd` but the setgroups > > calls seem to be missing. > > > > Looking at other sources, it seems like some have special treatment of > > setgroups on MacOS, e.g. samba: > > > > https://github.com/samba-team/samba/blob/v4-11-stable/source3/smbd/sec_ct... > > > > Perhaps this is needed for libvirt? > > The capping of ngroups to NGROUPS_MAX looks like a possibe reason. > > Adding this debug might show us if we're exceeding it: > > diff --git a/src/util/virutil.c b/src/util/virutil.c > index 89d2cf011f..effc02b898 100644 > --- a/src/util/virutil.c > +++ b/src/util/virutil.c > @@ -1043,6 +1043,7 @@ virSetUIDGID(uid_t uid, gid_t gid, gid_t *groups ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, > } > > # if HAVE_SETGROUPS > + VIR_DEBUG("setgroups %d max %d", ngroups, NGROUPS_MAX); > if (gid != (gid_t)-1 && setgroups(ngroups, groups) < 0) { > virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", > _("cannot set supplemental groups")); > > Yes, there's an overflow: 2019-08-21 18:25:37.943+0000: 123145413914624: debug : virSetUIDGID:1046 : setgroups 23 max 16 Related samba ticket (it also has references to the python and dovecot issues): https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8773