runroot: add check that it is on volatile storage

Make sure the runroot won't persist after a reboot, if it happens then
we can carry wrong information on the current active mounts.

Closes: containers/podman#2150

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <[email protected]>

errors.go

@@ -53,4 +53,6 @@ var (
 	ErrDigestUnknown = errors.New("could not compute digest of item")
 	// ErrLayerNotMounted is returned when the requested information can only be computed for a mounted layer, and the layer is not mounted.
 	ErrLayerNotMounted = errors.New("layer is not mounted")
+	// ErrTargetNotVolatile is returned when a path must be on volatile storage.
+	ErrTargetNotVolatile = errors.New("the target is not on tmpfs")
 )

pkg/mount/mountinfo_freebsd.go

@@ -39,3 +39,8 @@ func parseMountTable() ([]*Info, error) {
 	}
 	return out, nil
 }
+
+// IsOnVolatileStorage returns whether the specified target is on tmpfs.
+func IsOnVolatileStorage(target string) (bool, error) {
+	return true, nil
+}

pkg/mount/mountinfo_linux.go

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"os"
 	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -93,3 +96,14 @@ func PidMountInfo(pid int) ([]*Info, error) {
 
 	return parseInfoFile(f)
 }
+
+// IsOnVolatileStorage returns whether the specified target is on tmpfs.
+func IsOnVolatileStorage(target string) (bool, error) {
+	var fs unix.Statfs_t
+	// Make sure it's read-only.
+	if err := unix.Statfs(target, &fs); err != nil {
+		return false, errors.Wrapf(err, "error statfs %s", target)
+	}
+
+	return fs.Type == unix.TMPFS_MAGIC, nil
+}

pkg/mount/mountinfo_solaris.go

@@ -35,3 +35,8 @@ func parseMountTable() ([]*Info, error) {
 	C.fclose(mnttab)
 	return out, nil
 }
+
+// IsOnVolatileStorage returns whether the specified target is on tmpfs.
+func IsOnVolatileStorage(target string) (bool, error) {
+	return true, nil
+}

pkg/mount/mountinfo_unsupported.go

@@ -10,3 +10,8 @@ import (
 func parseMountTable() ([]*Info, error) {
 	return nil, fmt.Errorf("mount.parseMountTable is not implemented on %s/%s", runtime.GOOS, runtime.GOARCH)
 }
+
+// IsOnVolatileStorage returns whether the specified target is on tmpfs.
+func IsOnVolatileStorage(target string) (bool, error) {
+	return true, nil
+}

pkg/mount/mountinfo_windows.go

@@ -4,3 +4,8 @@ func parseMountTable() ([]*Info, error) {
 	// Do NOT return an error!
 	return nil, nil
 }
+
+// IsOnVolatileStorage returns whether the specified target is on tmpfs.
+func IsOnVolatileStorage(target string) (bool, error) {
+	return true, nil
+}

store.go

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/directory"
 	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/idtools"
 	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/ioutils"
+	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/mount"
 	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/parsers"
 	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/stringid"
 	"github.com/containers/storage/pkg/stringutils"
@@ -600,6 +601,14 @@ func GetStore(options StoreOptions) (Store, error) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	if onTmpfs, err := mount.IsOnVolatileStorage(options.RunRoot); err != nil || !onTmpfs {
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, errors.Wrapf(err, "cannot check if %s is on tmpfs", options.RunRoot)
+		} else {
+			return nil, errors.Wrapf(ErrTargetNotVolatile, "%s must be on tmpfs", options.RunRoot)
+		}
+	}
+
 	graphLock, err := GetLockfile(filepath.Join(options.GraphRoot, "storage.lock"))
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err