Turn autodev on by default

config/templates/archlinux.common.conf.in

@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ lxc.include = @LXCTEMPLATECONFIG@/common.conf
 # Allow for 6 tty devices by default
 lxc.tty = 6
 
-# Turn on autodev for systemd
-lxc.autodev = 1
-
 # Disable kmsg
 lxc.kmsg = 0
 

config/templates/opensuse.common.conf.in

 # This derives from the global common config
 lxc.include = @LXCTEMPLATECONFIG@/common.conf
 
-# Enable autodev
-lxc.autodev = 1
-
 # Capabilities
 # Uncomment these if you don't run anything that needs the capability, and
 # would like the container to run with less privilege.

doc/lxc.container.conf.sgml.in

@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
           </term>
           <listitem>
             <para>
-              Set this to 1 to have LXC mount and populate a minimal
+              Set this to 0 to stop LXC from mounting and populating a minimal
               <filename>/dev</filename> when starting the container.
             </para>
           </listitem>
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
     <refsect2>
       <title>Enable kmsg symlink</title>
       <para>
-      Enable creating /dev/kmsg as symlink to /dev/console.  This defaults to 1.
+        Enable creating /dev/kmsg as symlink to /dev/console.  This defaults to 1.
       </para>
       <variablelist>
     <varlistentry>

src/lxc/conf.c

@@ -2504,7 +2504,7 @@ struct lxc_conf *lxc_conf_init(void)
 
 	new->loglevel = LXC_LOG_PRIORITY_NOTSET;
 	new->personality = -1;
-	new->autodev = -1;
+	new->autodev = 1;
 	new->console.log_path = NULL;
 	new->console.log_fd = -1;
 	new->console.path = NULL;
@@ -3497,88 +3497,6 @@ int ttys_shift_ids(struct lxc_conf *c)
 }
 
 /*
- * This routine is called when the configuration does not already specify a value
- * for autodev (mounting a file system on /dev and populating it in a container).
- * If a hard override value has not be specified, then we try to apply some
- * heuristics to determine if we should switch to autodev mode.
- *
- * For instance, if the container has an /etc/systemd/system directory then it
- * is probably running systemd as the init process and it needs the autodev
- * mount to prevent it from mounting devtmpfs on /dev on it's own causing conflicts
- * in the host.
- *
- * We may also want to enable autodev if the host has devtmpfs mounted on its
- * /dev as this then enable us to use subdirectories under /dev for the container
- * /dev directories and we can fake udev devices.
- */
-struct start_args {
-	char *const *argv;
-};
-
-#define MAX_SYMLINK_DEPTH 32
-
-static int check_autodev( const char *rootfs, void *data )
-{
-	struct start_args *arg = data;
-	int ret;
-	int loop_count = 0;
-	struct stat s;
-	char absrootfs[MAXPATHLEN];
-	char path[MAXPATHLEN];
-	char abs_path[MAXPATHLEN];
-	char *command = "/sbin/init";
-
-	if (rootfs == NULL || strlen(rootfs) == 0)
-		return -2;
-
-	if (!realpath(rootfs, absrootfs))
-		return -2;
-
-	if( arg && arg->argv[0] ) {
-		command = arg->argv[0];
-		DEBUG("Set exec command to %s", command );
-	}
-
-	strncpy( path, command, MAXPATHLEN-1 );
-
-	if ( 0 != access(path, F_OK) || 0 != stat(path, &s) )
-		return -2;
-
-	/* Dereference down the symlink merry path testing as we go. */
-	/* If anything references systemd in the path - set autodev! */
-	/* Renormalize to the rootfs before each dereference */
-	/* Relative symlinks should fall out in the wash even with .. */
-	while( 1 ) {
-		if ( strstr( path, "systemd" ) ) {
-			INFO("Container with systemd init detected - enabling autodev!");
-			return 1;
-		}
-
-		ret = snprintf(abs_path, MAXPATHLEN-1, "%s/%s", absrootfs, path);
-		if (ret < 0 || ret > MAXPATHLEN)
-			return -2;
-
-		ret = readlink( abs_path, path, MAXPATHLEN-1 );
-
-		if ( ( ret <= 0 ) || ( ++loop_count > MAX_SYMLINK_DEPTH ) ) {
-			break; /* Break out for other tests */
-		}
-		path[ret] = '\0';
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * Add future checks here.
-	 *	Return positive if we should go autodev
-	 *	Return 0 if we should NOT go autodev
-	 *	Return negative if we encounter an error or can not determine...
-	 */
-
-	/* All else fails, we don't need autodev */
-	INFO("Autodev not required.");
-	return 0;
-}
-
-/*
  * _do_tmp_proc_mount: Mount /proc inside container if not already
  * mounted
  *
@@ -3793,7 +3711,6 @@ int lxc_setup(struct lxc_handler *handler)
 	const char *name = handler->name;
 	struct lxc_conf *lxc_conf = handler->conf;
 	const char *lxcpath = handler->lxcpath;
-	void *data = handler->data;
 
 	if (do_rootfs_setup(lxc_conf, name, lxcpath) < 0) {
 		ERROR("Error setting up rootfs mount after spawn");
@@ -3812,10 +3729,6 @@ int lxc_setup(struct lxc_handler *handler)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
-	if (lxc_conf->autodev < 0) {
-		lxc_conf->autodev = check_autodev(lxc_conf->rootfs.mount, data);
-	}
-
 	if (lxc_conf->autodev > 0) {
 		if (mount_autodev(name, lxc_conf->rootfs.mount, lxcpath)) {
 			ERROR("failed to mount /dev in the container");

templates/lxc-centos.in

@@ -612,8 +612,6 @@ lxc.include = @LXCTEMPLATECONFIG@/centos.common.conf
 lxc.arch = $arch
 lxc.utsname = $utsname
 
-lxc.autodev = $auto_dev
-
 # When using LXC with apparmor, uncomment the next line to run unconfined:
 #lxc.aa_profile = unconfined
 
@@ -824,20 +822,6 @@ if [ -z "$release" ]; then
     fi
 fi
 
-# CentOS 7 and above should run systemd.  We need autodev enabled to keep
-# systemd from causing problems.
-#
-# There is some ambiguity here due to the differnce between versioning
-# of point specific releases such as 6.5 and the rolling release 6.  We
-# only want the major number here if it's a point release...
-
-mrelease=$(expr $release : '\([0-9]*\)')
-if [ $mrelease -gt 6 ]; then
-    auto_dev="1"
-else
-    auto_dev="0"
-fi
-
 if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
     echo "This script should be run as 'root'"
     exit 1

templates/lxc-debian.in

@@ -191,7 +191,6 @@ configure_debian_systemd()
     init="$(chroot ${rootfs} dpkg-query --search /sbin/init | cut -d : -f 1)"
     if [ "$init" = "systemd-sysv" ]; then
        # only appropriate when systemd is PID 1
-       echo 'lxc.autodev = 1' >> "$path/config"
        echo 'lxc.kmsg = 0' >> "$path/config"
     fi
 

templates/lxc-fedora.in

@@ -1119,13 +1119,8 @@ lxc.include = @LXCTEMPLATECONFIG@/fedora.common.conf
 
     if [ "x$have_systemd" = "x1" ]; then
         cat <<EOF >> $config_path/config
-lxc.autodev = 1
 lxc.kmsg = 0
 EOF
-    else
-        cat <<EOF >> $config_path/config
-lxc.autodev = 0
-EOF
     fi
 
     # Append things which require expansion here...

templates/lxc-openmandriva.in

@@ -229,7 +229,6 @@ copy_configuration()
     grep -q "^lxc.rootfs" $config_path/config 2>/dev/null || echo "lxc.rootfs = $rootfs_path" >> $config_path/config
     cat <<EOF >> $config_path/config
 lxc.utsname = $name
-lxc.autodev = 1
 lxc.tty = 4
 lxc.pts = 1024
 lxc.mount = $config_path/fstab

templates/lxc-oracle.in

@@ -482,7 +482,6 @@ EOF
 
     # don't create kmsg symlink as it causes journald to use 100% cpu
     if [ $container_release_major = "7" ]; then
-        echo "lxc.autodev = 1" >>$cfg_dir/config
         echo "lxc.kmsg = 0" >>$cfg_dir/config
     fi