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libsubid shouldn't log to stderr #325

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alexey-tikhonov opened this issue Apr 26, 2021 · 3 comments · Fixed by #335
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libsubid shouldn't log to stderr #325

alexey-tikhonov opened this issue Apr 26, 2021 · 3 comments · Fixed by #335

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@alexey-tikhonov
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alexey-tikhonov commented Apr 26, 2021

Currently 'libsubid' can log to stderr:
get_subuid_ranges() -> list_owner_ranges() -> get_subid_nss_handle() -> nss_init() -> fprintf(stderr, ...)

For new?idmap this is fine to print to stderr, but I think libsubid shouldn't.

(reference for a context)

UPD: #329 was merged here

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hallyn commented May 4, 2021

I agree libraries should not do that.

Where do you think the errors should go? Just /dev/null, if done through libsubid?

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IMO, ideally libsubid API could provide a method to setup user supplied logger function (defaults to /dev/null if not set explicitly).
This could help debugging.
But if that's not feasible at this point, than /dev/null...

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hallyn commented May 4, 2021

Both this and the Prog issue amount to a re-working of the whole logging system - such as it is - in shadow.

I don't like how it currently is, so I'll do something, but it'll take a bit of time.

hallyn added a commit to hallyn/shadow that referenced this issue May 8, 2021
Closes shadow-maint#325

Add a new subid_init() function which can be used to specify the
stream on which error messages should be printed.  (If you want to
get fancy you can redirect that to memory :)  If subid_init() is
not called, use stderr.  If NULL is passed, then /dev/null will
be used.

This patch also fixes up the 'Prog', which previously had to be
defined by any program linking against libsubid.  Now, by default
in libsubid it will show (subid).  Once subid_init() is called,
it will use the first variable passed to subid_init().

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
hallyn added a commit to hallyn/shadow that referenced this issue May 8, 2021
Closes shadow-maint#325

Add a new subid_init() function which can be used to specify the
stream on which error messages should be printed.  (If you want to
get fancy you can redirect that to memory :)  If subid_init() is
not called, use stderr.  If NULL is passed, then /dev/null will
be used.

This patch also fixes up the 'Prog', which previously had to be
defined by any program linking against libsubid.  Now, by default
in libsubid it will show (subid).  Once subid_init() is called,
it will use the first variable passed to subid_init().

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
hallyn added a commit to hallyn/shadow that referenced this issue May 15, 2021
Closes shadow-maint#325

Add a new subid_init() function which can be used to specify the
stream on which error messages should be printed.  (If you want to
get fancy you can redirect that to memory :)  If subid_init() is
not called, use stderr.  If NULL is passed, then /dev/null will
be used.

This patch also fixes up the 'Prog', which previously had to be
defined by any program linking against libsubid.  Now, by default
in libsubid it will show (subid).  Once subid_init() is called,
it will use the first variable passed to subid_init().

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
debarshiray pushed a commit to mhjacks/toolbox that referenced this issue Dec 15, 2022
On enterprise FreeIPA set-ups, the subordinate user and group IDs are
provided by SSSD's sss plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (or NSS)
functionality of the GNU C Library.  They are not listed in /etc/subuid
and /etc/subgid.

The CGO interaction with libsubid.so is loosely based on 'readSubid' in
github.com/containers/storage/pkg/idtools [1].

Unlike 'readSubid', this code considers the absence of any range (ie.,
nRanges == 0) to be an error as well.

More importantly, this code uses dlopen(3) and friends to dynamically
load the symbols from libsubid.so, instead of linking to libsubid.so at
build-time and having the dependency noted in the /usr/bin/toolbox
binary.  This is done because libsubid.so itself depends on several
other shared libraries, and indirect dependencies can't be influenced
by the RUNPATH [2] embedded in the /usr/bin/toolbox binary [3].  Hence,
when the binary is used inside Toolbx containers (eg., as the entry
point), those indirect dependencies won't be picked from the host's
runtime against which the binary was built.  This can render the binary
useless due to ABI compatibility issues.  Using dlopen(3) avoids this
problem, especially because libsubid.so is only used when running on the
host.

Version 4 of the libsubid.so API/ABI [4] was released in Shadow 4.10,
which is newer than the versions shipped on RHEL 8 and Debian 10 [5],
and even that newer version had some problems [6].  Therefore, support
for older versions, with the relevant workarounds, is necessary.

This code doesn't set the public variables Prog and shadow_logfd that
older Shadow versions used to expect for logging, because from Shadow
4.9 onwards there's a separate function [4,7] to specify these.  This
can be changed if there are libsubid.so versions in the wild that really
do need those public variables to be set.

Finally, ISO C99 is required because of the use of <stdbool.h> in the
libsubid.so API.

Some changes by Debarshi Ray.

[1] https://github.com/containers/storage/blob/main/pkg/idtools/idtools_supported.go

[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ld.so.8.html

[3] Commit 6063eb2
    containers#821

[4] Shadow commit 32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow@32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow#443

[5] https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/shadow

[6] Shadow commit 79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow@79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow#465

[7] Shadow commit 2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow@2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow#325

containers#1074

Signed-off-by: Martin Jackson <[email protected]>
debarshiray pushed a commit to mhjacks/toolbox that referenced this issue Dec 16, 2022
On enterprise FreeIPA set-ups, the subordinate user and group IDs are
provided by SSSD's sss plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (or NSS)
functionality of the GNU C Library.  They are not listed in /etc/subuid
and /etc/subgid.

The CGO interaction with libsubid.so is loosely based on 'readSubid' in
github.com/containers/storage/pkg/idtools [1].

Unlike 'readSubid', this code considers the absence of any range (ie.,
nRanges == 0) to be an error as well.

More importantly, this code uses dlopen(3) and friends to dynamically
load the symbols from libsubid.so, instead of linking to libsubid.so at
build-time and having the dependency noted in the /usr/bin/toolbox
binary.  This is done because libsubid.so itself depends on several
other shared libraries, and indirect dependencies can't be influenced
by the RUNPATH [2] embedded in the /usr/bin/toolbox binary [3].  Hence,
when the binary is used inside Toolbx containers (eg., as the entry
point), those indirect dependencies won't be picked from the host's
runtime against which the binary was built.  This can render the binary
useless due to ABI compatibility issues.  Using dlopen(3) avoids this
problem, especially because libsubid.so is only used when running on the
host.

Version 4 of the libsubid.so API/ABI [4] was released in Shadow 4.10,
which is newer than the versions shipped on RHEL 8 and Debian 10 [5],
and even that newer version had some problems [6].  Therefore, support
for older versions, with the relevant workarounds, is necessary.

This code doesn't set the public variables Prog and shadow_logfd that
older Shadow versions used to expect for logging, because from Shadow
4.9 onwards there's a separate function [4,7] to specify these.  This
can be changed if there are libsubid.so versions in the wild that really
do need those public variables to be set.

Finally, ISO C99 is required because of the use of <stdbool.h> in the
libsubid.so API.

Some changes by Debarshi Ray.

[1] https://github.com/containers/storage/blob/main/pkg/idtools/idtools_supported.go

[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ld.so.8.html

[3] Commit 6063eb2
    containers#821

[4] Shadow commit 32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow@32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow#443

[5] https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/shadow

[6] Shadow commit 79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow@79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow#465

[7] Shadow commit 2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow@2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow#325

containers#1074

Signed-off-by: Martin Jackson <[email protected]>
debarshiray pushed a commit to mhjacks/toolbox that referenced this issue Dec 20, 2022
On enterprise FreeIPA set-ups, the subordinate user and group IDs are
provided by SSSD's sss plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (or NSS)
functionality of the GNU C Library.  They are not listed in /etc/subuid
and /etc/subgid.

The CGO interaction with libsubid.so is loosely based on 'readSubid' in
github.com/containers/storage/pkg/idtools [1].

Unlike 'readSubid', this code considers the absence of any range (ie.,
nRanges == 0) to be an error as well.

More importantly, this code uses dlopen(3) and friends to dynamically
load the symbols from libsubid.so, instead of linking to libsubid.so at
build-time and having the dependency noted in the /usr/bin/toolbox
binary.  This is done because libsubid.so itself depends on several
other shared libraries, and indirect dependencies can't be influenced
by the RUNPATH [2] embedded in the /usr/bin/toolbox binary [3].  Hence,
when the binary is used inside Toolbx containers (eg., as the entry
point), those indirect dependencies won't be picked from the host's
runtime against which the binary was built.  This can render the binary
useless due to ABI compatibility issues.  Using dlopen(3) avoids this
problem, especially because libsubid.so is only used when running on the
host.

Care was taken to not load and link libsubid.so twice to separately
validate the subordinate ranges for the user and the group.  Sadly,
there doesn't seem to be a way to close the file descriptor that's used
by libsubid.so for logging.  Hence, this one file descriptor (currently
number 3, unless the parent process passes down others) pointing to
/dev/null is leaked for the life cycle of the toolbox process.

Version 4 of the libsubid.so API/ABI [4] was released in Shadow 4.10,
which is newer than the versions shipped on RHEL 8 and Debian 10 [5],
and even that newer version had some problems [6].  Therefore, support
for older versions, with the relevant workarounds, is necessary.

This code doesn't set the public variables Prog and shadow_logfd that
older Shadow versions used to expect for logging, because from Shadow
4.9 onwards there's a separate function [4,7] to specify these.  This
can be changed if there are libsubid.so versions in the wild that really
do need those public variables to be set.

Finally, ISO C99 is required because of the use of <stdbool.h> in the
libsubid.so API.

Some changes by Debarshi Ray.

[1] https://github.com/containers/storage/blob/main/pkg/idtools/idtools_supported.go

[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ld.so.8.html

[3] Commit 6063eb2
    containers#821

[4] Shadow commit 32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow@32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow#443

[5] https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/shadow

[6] Shadow commit 79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow@79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow#465

[7] Shadow commit 2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow@2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow#325

containers#1074

Signed-off-by: Martin Jackson <[email protected]>
debarshiray pushed a commit to mhjacks/toolbox that referenced this issue Jan 26, 2023
On enterprise FreeIPA set-ups, the subordinate user and group IDs are
provided by SSSD's sss plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (or NSS)
functionality of the GNU C Library.  They are not listed in /etc/subuid
and /etc/subgid.

The CGO interaction with libsubid.so is loosely based on 'readSubid' in
github.com/containers/storage/pkg/idtools [1].

Unlike 'readSubid', this code considers the absence of any range (ie.,
nRanges == 0) to be an error as well.

More importantly, this code uses dlopen(3) and friends to dynamically
load the symbols from libsubid.so, instead of linking to libsubid.so at
build-time and having the dependency noted in the /usr/bin/toolbox
binary.  This is done because libsubid.so itself depends on several
other shared libraries, and indirect dependencies can't be influenced
by the RUNPATH [2] embedded in the /usr/bin/toolbox binary [3].  Hence,
when the binary is used inside Toolbx containers (eg., as the entry
point), those indirect dependencies won't be picked from the host's
runtime against which the binary was built.  This can render the binary
useless due to ABI compatibility issues.  Using dlopen(3) avoids this
problem, especially because libsubid.so is only used when running on the
host.

Care was taken to not load and link libsubid.so twice to separately
validate the subordinate ranges for the user and the group.  Sadly,
there doesn't seem to be a way to close the file descriptor that's used
by libsubid.so for logging.  Hence, this one file descriptor (currently
number 3, unless the parent process passes down others) pointing to
/dev/null is leaked for the life cycle of the toolbox process.

Version 4 of the libsubid.so API/ABI [4] was released in Shadow 4.10,
which is newer than the versions shipped on RHEL 8 and Debian 10 [5],
and even that newer version had some problems [6].  Therefore, support
for older versions, with the relevant workarounds, is necessary.

This code doesn't set the public variables Prog and shadow_logfd that
older Shadow versions used to expect for logging, because from Shadow
4.9 onwards there's a separate function [4,7] to specify these.  This
can be changed if there are libsubid.so versions in the wild that really
do need those public variables to be set.

Finally, ISO C99 is required because of the use of <stdbool.h> in the
libsubid.so API.

Some changes by Debarshi Ray.

[1] https://github.com/containers/storage/blob/main/pkg/idtools/idtools_supported.go

[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ld.so.8.html

[3] Commit 6063eb2
    containers#821

[4] Shadow commit 32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow@32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow#443

[5] https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/shadow

[6] Shadow commit 79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow@79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow#465

[7] Shadow commit 2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow@2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow#325

containers#1074

Signed-off-by: Martin Jackson <[email protected]>
debarshiray pushed a commit to mhjacks/toolbox that referenced this issue Jan 26, 2023
On enterprise FreeIPA set-ups, the subordinate user and group IDs are
provided by SSSD's sss plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (or NSS)
functionality of the GNU C Library.  They are not listed in /etc/subuid
and /etc/subgid.  Therefore, its necessary to use libsubid.so to check
the subordinate ID ranges.

The CGO interaction with libsubid.so is loosely based on 'readSubid' in
github.com/containers/storage/pkg/idtools [1].

Unlike 'readSubid', this code considers the absence of any range (ie.,
nRanges == 0) to be an error as well.

More importantly, this code uses dlopen(3) and friends to dynamically
load the symbols from libsubid.so, instead of linking to libsubid.so at
build-time and having the dependency noted in the /usr/bin/toolbox
binary.  This is done because libsubid.so itself depends on several
other shared libraries, and indirect dependencies can't be influenced
by the RUNPATH [2] embedded in the /usr/bin/toolbox binary [3].  Hence,
when the binary is used inside Toolbx containers (eg., as the entry
point), those indirect dependencies won't be picked from the host's
runtime against which the binary was built.  This can render the binary
useless due to ABI compatibility issues.  Using dlopen(3) avoids this
problem, especially because libsubid.so is only used when running on the
host.

Care was taken to not load and link libsubid.so twice to separately
validate the subordinate ID ranges for the user and the group.  Sadly,
there doesn't seem to be a way to close the file descriptor that's used
by libsubid.so for logging.  Hence, this one file descriptor (currently
number 3, unless the parent process passes down others) pointing to
/dev/null is leaked for the life cycle of the toolbox process.

Version 4 of the libsubid.so API/ABI [4] was released in Shadow 4.10,
which is newer than the versions shipped on RHEL 8 and Debian 10 [5],
and even that newer version had some problems [6].  Therefore, support
for older versions, with the relevant workarounds, is necessary.

This code doesn't set the public variables Prog and shadow_logfd that
older Shadow versions used to expect for logging, because from Shadow
4.9 onwards there's a separate function [4,7] to specify these.  This
can be changed if there are libsubid.so versions in the wild that really
do need those public variables to be set.

Finally, ISO C99 is required because of the use of <stdbool.h> in the
libsubid.so API.

Some changes by Debarshi Ray.

[1] https://github.com/containers/storage/blob/main/pkg/idtools/idtools_supported.go

[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ld.so.8.html

[3] Commit 6063eb2
    containers#821

[4] Shadow commit 32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow@32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow#443

[5] https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/shadow

[6] Shadow commit 79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow@79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow#465

[7] Shadow commit 2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow@2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow#325

containers#1074

Signed-off-by: Martin Jackson <[email protected]>
debarshiray pushed a commit to mhjacks/toolbox that referenced this issue Jan 26, 2023
On enterprise FreeIPA set-ups, the subordinate user and group IDs are
provided by SSSD's sss plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (or NSS)
functionality of the GNU C Library.  They are not listed in /etc/subuid
and /etc/subgid.  Therefore, its necessary to use libsubid.so to check
the subordinate ID ranges.

The CGO interaction with libsubid.so is loosely based on 'readSubid' in
github.com/containers/storage/pkg/idtools [1].

Unlike 'readSubid', this code considers the absence of any range (ie.,
nRanges == 0) to be an error as well.

More importantly, this code uses dlopen(3) and friends to dynamically
load the symbols from libsubid.so, instead of linking to libsubid.so at
build-time and having the dependency noted in the /usr/bin/toolbox
binary.  This is done because libsubid.so itself depends on several
other shared libraries, and indirect dependencies can't be influenced
by the RUNPATH [2] embedded in the /usr/bin/toolbox binary [3].  Hence,
when the binary is used inside Toolbx containers (eg., as the entry
point), those indirect dependencies won't be picked from the host's
runtime against which the binary was built.  This can render the binary
useless due to ABI compatibility issues.  Using dlopen(3) avoids this
problem, especially because libsubid.so is only used when running on the
host.

Care was taken to not load and link libsubid.so twice to separately
validate the subordinate ID ranges for the user and the group.  Sadly,
there doesn't seem to be a way to close the file descriptor that's used
by libsubid.so for logging.  Hence, this one file descriptor (currently
number 3, unless the parent process passes down others) pointing to
/dev/null is leaked for the life cycle of the toolbox process.

Version 4 of the libsubid.so API/ABI [4] was released in Shadow 4.10,
which is newer than the versions shipped on RHEL 8 and Debian 10 [5],
and even that newer version had some problems [6].  Therefore, support
for older versions, with the relevant workarounds, is necessary.

This code doesn't set the public variables Prog and shadow_logfd that
older Shadow versions used to expect for logging, because from Shadow
4.9 onwards there's a separate function [4,7] to specify these.  This
can be changed if there are libsubid.so versions in the wild that really
do need those public variables to be set.

Finally, ISO C99 is required because of the use of <stdbool.h> in the
libsubid.so API.

Some changes by Debarshi Ray.

[1] https://github.com/containers/storage/blob/main/pkg/idtools/idtools_supported.go

[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ld.so.8.html

[3] Commit 6063eb2
    containers#821

[4] Shadow commit 32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow@32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow#443

[5] https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/shadow

[6] Shadow commit 79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow@79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow#465

[7] Shadow commit 2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow@2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow#325

containers#1074

Signed-off-by: Martin Jackson <[email protected]>
debarshiray pushed a commit to mhjacks/toolbox that referenced this issue Jan 27, 2023
On enterprise FreeIPA set-ups, the subordinate user and group IDs are
provided by SSSD's sss plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (or NSS)
functionality of the GNU C Library.  They are not listed in /etc/subuid
and /etc/subgid.  Therefore, its necessary to use libsubid.so to check
the subordinate ID ranges.

The CGO interaction with libsubid.so is loosely based on 'readSubid' in
github.com/containers/storage/pkg/idtools [1].

Unlike 'readSubid', this code considers the absence of any range (ie.,
nRanges == 0) to be an error as well.

More importantly, this code uses dlopen(3) and friends to dynamically
load the symbols from libsubid.so, instead of linking to libsubid.so at
build-time and having the dependency noted in the /usr/bin/toolbox
binary.  This is done because libsubid.so itself depends on several
other shared libraries, and indirect dependencies can't be influenced
by the RUNPATH [2] embedded in the /usr/bin/toolbox binary [3].  Hence,
when the binary is used inside Toolbx containers (eg., as the entry
point), those indirect dependencies won't be picked from the host's
runtime against which the binary was built.  This can render the binary
useless due to ABI compatibility issues.  Using dlopen(3) avoids this
problem, especially because libsubid.so is only used when running on the
host.

Care was taken to not load and link libsubid.so twice to separately
validate the subordinate ID ranges for the user and the group.  Sadly,
there doesn't seem to be a way to close the file descriptor that's used
by libsubid.so for logging.  Hence, this one file descriptor (currently
number 3, unless the parent process passes down others) pointing to
/dev/null is leaked for the life cycle of the toolbox process.

Version 4 of the libsubid.so API/ABI [4] was released in Shadow 4.10,
which is newer than the versions shipped on RHEL 8 and Debian 10 [5],
and even that newer version had some problems [6].  Therefore, support
for older versions, with the relevant workarounds, is necessary.

This code doesn't set the public variables Prog and shadow_logfd that
older Shadow versions used to expect for logging, because from Shadow
4.9 onwards there's a separate function [4,7] to specify these.  This
can be changed if there are libsubid.so versions in the wild that really
do need those public variables to be set.

Finally, ISO C99 is required because of the use of <stdbool.h> in the
libsubid.so API.

Some changes by Debarshi Ray.

[1] https://github.com/containers/storage/blob/main/pkg/idtools/idtools_supported.go

[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ld.so.8.html

[3] Commit 6063eb2
    containers#821

[4] Shadow commit 32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow@32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow#443

[5] https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/shadow

[6] Shadow commit 79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow@79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow#465

[7] Shadow commit 2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow@2b22a6909dba60d
    shadow-maint/shadow#325

containers#1074

Signed-off-by: Martin Jackson <[email protected]>
debarshiray pushed a commit to debarshiray/toolbox that referenced this issue Jan 28, 2023
On enterprise FreeIPA set-ups, the subordinate user and group IDs are
provided by SSSD's sss plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (or NSS)
functionality of the GNU C Library.  They are not listed in /etc/subuid
and /etc/subgid.  Therefore, its necessary to use libsubid.so to check
the subordinate ID ranges.

The CGO interaction with libsubid.so is loosely based on 'readSubid' in
github.com/containers/storage/pkg/idtools [1].

However, unlike 'readSubid', this code considers the absence of any
range (ie., nRanges == 0) to be an error as well.

More importantly, this code uses dlopen(3) and friends to dynamically
load the symbols from libsubid.so, instead of linking to libsubid.so at
build-time and having the dependency noted in the /usr/bin/toolbox
binary.  This is done because libsubid.so itself depends on several
other shared libraries, and indirect dependencies can't be influenced
by the RUNPATH [2] embedded in the /usr/bin/toolbox binary [3].  Hence,
when the binary is used inside Toolbx containers (eg., as the entry
point), those indirect dependencies won't be picked from the host's
runtime against which the binary was built.  This can render the binary
useless due to ABI compatibility issues.  Using dlopen(3) avoids this
problem, especially because libsubid.so is only used when running on the
host.

Care was taken to not load and link libsubid.so twice to separately
validate the subordinate ID ranges for the user and the group.  Note
that libsubid_init() must be passed a FILE pointer for logging.
Otherwise, it will create it's own for logging, and there's no way to
close it during dlclose(3).

Version 4 of the libsubid.so API/ABI [4] was released in Shadow 4.10,
which is newer than the versions shipped on RHEL 8 and Debian 10 [5],
and even that newer version had some problems [6].  Therefore, support
for older versions, with the relevant workarounds, is necessary.
Fortunately, the oldest that needs to be support is Shadow 4.9 because
that's when libsubid.so was introduced [7].

Note that SUBID_ABI_VERSION was only introduced with version 4 of the
libsubid.so API/ABI released in Shadow 4.10 [8].  The first release of
libsubid.so in Shadow 4.9 already had an ABI version of 3.0.0 [9], since
it was bumped a few times during development, so that's what's assumed
when SUBID_ABI_VERSION is absent.

This code doesn't set the public variables Prog and shadow_logfd that
older Shadow versions used to expect for logging, because from Shadow
4.9 onwards there's a separate function [4,10] to specify these.  This
can be changed if there are libsubid.so versions in the wild that really
do need those public variables to be set.

Finally, ISO C99 is required because of the use of <stdbool.h> in the
libsubid.so API.

Some changes by Debarshi Ray.

[1] https://github.com/containers/storage/blob/main/pkg/idtools/idtools_supported.go

[2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ld.so.8.html

[3] Commit 6063eb2
    containers#821

[4] Shadow commit 32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow@32f641b207f6ddff
    shadow-maint/shadow#443

[5] https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/shadow

[6] Shadow commit 79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow@79157cbad87f42cd
    shadow-maint/shadow#465

[7] Shadow commit 0a7888b1fad613a0
    shadow-maint/shadow@0a7888b1fad613a0
    shadow-maint/shadow#154

[8] Shadow commit 0c9f64140852e8d5
    shadow-maint/shadow@0c9f64140852e8d5
    shadow-maint/shadow#449

[9] Shadow commit 3d670ba7ed58f910
    shadow-maint/shadow@3d670ba7ed58f910
    shadow-maint/shadow#339

[10] Shadow commit 2b22a6909dba60d
     shadow-maint/shadow@2b22a6909dba60d
     shadow-maint/shadow#325

containers#1074

Signed-off-by: Martin Jackson <[email protected]>
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