podman tries to make user-executable directory world-executable (rootless)

[myllynen]

Issue Description

When a directory in the path configured in containers.conf is not world-executable podman fails to run containers:

admin@bastion:~> cat ~/.config/containers/storage.conf                                                                                                
[storage]
driver = "overlay"
runroot = "/app/admin/ee/runroot"
graphroot = "/app/admin/ee/graphroot"
rootless_storage_path = "/app/admin/ee/storage"
[storage.options]
pull_options = {enable_partial_images = "false", use_hard_links = "false", ostree_repos=""}
[storage.options.overlay]
mountopt = "nodev,metacopy=on"
admin@bastion:~> id
uid=4444(admin) gid=4444(admin) groups=4444(admin),10(wheel) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
admin@bastion:~> ls -alZ /app
total 0
drwxr-x---.  3 root  admin unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0            19 2024-06-07 12:53 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 19 root  root  system_u:object_r:root_t:s0                  246 2024-06-06 12:46 ..
drwxr-x--x.  3 admin admin unconfined_u:object_r:container_var_lib_t:s0  16 2024-06-07 13:28 admin
admin@bastion:~> strace -ff podman run -ti test-container uname 2>&1 | grep chmod | grep -i perm
[pid  3400] fchmodat(AT_FDCWD, "/app", 0751) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
[pid  3400] rt_sigreturn({mask=[]}Error: chmod /app: operation not permitted
admin@bastion:~> podman version
Client:       Podman Engine
Version:      4.9.4-rhel
API Version:  4.9.4-rhel
Go Version:   go1.21.7 (Red Hat 1.21.7-2.module+el8.10.0+21638+b01be198)
Built:        Mon Jun 10 14:56:14 2024
OS/Arch:      linux/amd64
admin@bastion:~> 

The top-level directory is already user-readable/executable but podman still tries to make it world-executable.

If doing "chmod o+x /app" as root then the test would work as expected.

If this is indeed required then at least the error message should be clearer.

Steps to reproduce the issue

See above - any directory in the path, even if user-readable/executable, not world-executable will cause podman to fail.

Describe the results you received

Directories must be world-executable or podman fails.

Describe the results you expected

It is enough for directories to be owned and accessible by the user.

podman info output

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Podman in a container

No

Privileged Or Rootless

Rootless

Upstream Latest Release

No

Additional environment details

Additional environment details

Additional information

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[giuseppe]

The top-level directory is already user-readable/executable but podman still tries to make it world-executable.

If doing "chmod o+x /app" as root then the test would work as expected.

that won't be enough when you run inside a user namespace (for rootless a nested namespace), since your UID:GID could not be mapped in the inner namespace.

[giuseppe]

and we probably don't need this code anymore, the OCI runtime takes advantage of the new Linux mount API to achieve it without requiring the chmod hack we needed before

[giuseppe]

opened a PR, let's see how far it goes in the CI: #23032