We don't know how frequently this happens, but hitting
fs.inotify.max_user_watches or similar sysctl limits is definitely
not out of question, and Paul mentioned that, for example, Podman's
CI environments hit similar issues in the past.
Introduce a fallback mechanism based on a timer file descriptor: we
grab the directory handle at startup, and we can then use openat(),
triggered periodically, to check if the (network) namespace directory
still exists. If openat() fails at some point, exit.
Link: https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/21563#issuecomment-1943505707
Reported-by: Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Before commit 32d07f5e59 ("passt, pasta: Completely avoid dynamic
memory allocation"), we didn't store the current log mask in a
variable, and we fetched it using setlogmask(0) wherever needed.
But after that commit, we can use our log_mask copy instead. And we
should: with recent glibc versions, setlogmask(0) actually results in
a system call, which causes a substantial overhead with high transfer
rates: we use setlogmask(0) even to decide we don't want to print
debug messages.
Now that we rely on log_mask in early stages, before setlogmask() is
called, we need to initialise that variable to the special LOG_EMERG
mask value right away: define LOG_EARLY to make this clearer, and,
while at it, group conditions in vlogmsg() into something more terse.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Currently we have separate handlers for ICMP and ICMPv6 ping replies.
Although there are a number of points of difference, with some creative
refactoring we can combine these together sensibly. Although it doesn't
save a vast amount of code, it does make it clearer that we're performing
basically the same steps for each case.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Currently we always keep the flow table maximally compact: that is all the
active entries are contiguous at the start of the table. Doing this
sometimes requires moving an entry when one is freed. That's kind of
fiddly, and potentially expensive: it requires updating the hash table for
the new location, and depending on flow type, it may require EPOLL_CTL_MOD,
system calls to update epoll tags with the new location too.
Implement a new way of managing the flow table that doesn't ever move
entries. It attempts to maintain some compactness by always using the
first free slot for a new connection, and mitigates the effect of non
compactness by cheaply skipping over contiguous blocks of free entries.
See the "theory of operation" comment in flow.c for details.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>b
[sbrivio: additional ASSERT(flow_first_free <= FLOW_MAX - 2) to avoid
Coverity Scan false positive]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Currently connected TCP sockets have the same epoll type, whether they're
for a "tap" connection or a spliced connection. This means that
tcp_sock_handler() has to do a secondary check on the type of the
connection to call the right function. We can avoid this by adding a new
epoll type and dispatching directly to the right thing.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
As we already did for flow types, use an "EPOLL_NUM_TYPES" isntead of
EPOLL_TYPE_MAX, which is a little bit safer and clearer. Add a static
assert on the size of the matching names array.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tcp_timer() scans the flow table so that it can run tcp_splice_timer() on
each spliced connection. More generally, other flow types might want to
run similar timers in future.
We could add a flow_timer() analagous to tcp_timer(), udp_timer() etc.
However, this would need to scan the flow table, which we would have just
done in flow_defer_handler(). We'd prefer to just scan the flow table
once, dispatching both per-flow deferred events and per-flow timed events
if necessary.
So, extend flow_defer_handler() to do this. For now we use the same timer
interval for all flow types (1s). We can make that more flexible in future
if we need to.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tcp_defer_handler(), amongst other things, scans the flow table and does
some processing for each TCP connection. When we add other protocols to
the flow table, they're likely to want some similar scanning. It makes
more sense for cache friendliness to perform a single scan of the flow
table and dispatch to the protocol specific handlers, rather than having
each protocol separately scan the table.
To that end, add a new flow_defer_handler() handling all flow-linked
deferred operations.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
The TCP state structure includes a 128-bit hash_secret which we use for
SipHash calculations to mitigate attacks on the TCP hash table and initial
sequence number.
We have plans to use SipHash in places that aren't TCP related, and there's
no particular reason they'd need their own secret. So move the hash_secret
to the general context structure.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Because packets sent on the tap interface will always be going to the
guest/namespace, we more-or-less know what address they'll be going to. So
we pre-fill this destination address in our header buffers for IPv4. We
can't do the same for IPv6 because we could need either the global or
link-local address for the guest. In future we're going to want more
flexibility for the destination address, so this pre-filling will get in
the way.
Change the flow so we always fill in the IPv4 destination address for each
packet, rather than prefilling it from proto_update_l2_buf(). In fact for
TCP we already redundantly filled the destination for each packet anyway.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Currently we have a single epoll event type for the "tap" fd, which could
be either a handle on a /dev/net/tun device (pasta) or a connected Unix
socket (passt). However for the two modes we call different handler
functions. Simplify this a little by using different epoll types and
dispatching directly to the correct handler function.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tap_handler() actually handles events on three different types of object:
the /dev/tap character device (pasta), a connected Unix domain socket
(passt) or a listening Unix domain socket (passt).
The last, in particular, really has no handling in common with the others,
so split it into its own epoll type and directly dispatch to the relevant
handler from the top level.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tcp_sock_handler() handles both listening TCP sockets, and connected TCP
sockets, but what it needs to do in those cases has essentially nothing in
common. Therefore, give listening sockets their own epoll_type value and
dispatch directly to their own handler from the top level. Furthermore,
the two handlers need essentially entirely different information from the
reference: we re-(ab)used the index field in the tcp_epoll_ref to indicate
the port for the listening socket, but that's not the same meaning. So,
switch listening sockets to their own reference type which we can lay out
as we please. That lets us remove the listen and outbound fields from the
normal (connected) tcp_epoll_ref, reducing it to just the connection table
index.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
tcp_sock_handler() actually handles several different types of fd events.
This includes timerfds that aren't sockets at all. The handling of these
has essentially nothing in common with the other cases. So, give the
TCP timers there own epoll_type value and dispatch directly to their
handler. This also means we can remove the timer field from tcp_epoll_ref,
the information it encoded is now implicit in the epoll_type value.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Move the test for c->no_udp into the function itself, rather than in the
dispatching switch statement to better localize the UDP specific logic, and
make for greated consistency with other handler functions.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
We have different epoll type values for ICMP and ICMPv6 sockets, but they
both call the same handler function, icmp_sock_handler(). However that
function does essentially nothing in common for the two cases. So, split
it into icmp_sock_handler() and icmpv6_sock_handler() and dispatch them
separately from the top level.
While we're there remove some parameters that the function was never using
anyway. Also move the test for c->no_icmp into the functions, so that all
the logic specific to ICMP is within the handler, rather than in the top
level dispatch code.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
When we process events from epoll_wait(), we check for a number of special
cases before calling sock_handler() which then dispatches based on the
protocol type of the socket in the event.
Fold these cases together into a single switch on the fd type recorded in
the epoll data field.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
epoll_ref contains a variety of information useful when handling epoll
events on our sockets, and we place it in the epoll_event data field
returned by epoll. However, for a few other things we use the 'fd' field
in the standard union of types for that data field.
This actually introduces a bug which is vanishingly unlikely to hit in
practice, but very nasty if it ever did: theoretically if we had a very
large file descriptor number for fd_tap or fd_tap_listen it could overflow
into bits that overlap with the 'proto' field in epoll_ref. With some
very bad luck this could mean that we mistakenly think an event on a
regular socket is an event on fd_tap or fd_tap_listen.
More practically, using different (but overlapping) fields of the
epoll_data means we can't unify dispatch for the various different objects
in the epoll. Therefore use the same epoll_ref as the data for the tap
fds and the netns quit fd, adding new fd type values to describe them.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
The epoll_ref type includes fields for the IP protocol of a socket, and the
socket fd. However, we already have a few things in the epoll which aren't
protocol sockets, and we may have more in future. Rename these fields to
an abstract "fd type" and file descriptor for more generality.
Similarly, rather than using existing IP protocol numbers for the type,
introduce our own number space. For now these just correspond to the
supported protocols, but we'll expand on that in future.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
union epoll_ref has a deeply nested set of structs and unions to let us
subdivide it into the various different fields we want. This means that
referencing elements can involve an awkward long string of intermediate
fields.
Using C11 anonymous structs and unions lets us do this less clumsily.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Valtteri reports that if SIGPIPE already has a disposition set by the
parent process, such as systemd with the default setting of
IgnoreSIGPIPE=yes, signal() will return the previous value, not zero,
and this is not an error: check for SIG_ERR instead.
While at it, split messages for failures of sigaction() and signal(),
and report the actual error.
Reported-by: Valtteri Vuorikoski <vuori@notcom.org>
Fixes: 8534be076c ("Catch failures when installing signal handlers")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.
Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.
Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Roughly inspired from a patch by Chris Kuhn: fix up includes so that
we can build against musl: glibc is more lenient as headers generally
include a larger amount of other headers.
Compared to the original patch, I only included what was needed
directly in C files, instead of adding blanket includes in local
header files. It's a bit more involved, but more consistent with the
current (not ideal) situation.
Reported-by: Chris Kuhn <kuhnchris+github@kuhnchris.eu>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
While building against musl, gcc informs us that 'stderr' is a
protected keyword. This probably comes from a #define stderr (stderr)
in musl's stdio.h, to avoid a clash with extern FILE *const stderr,
but I didn't really track it down. Just rename it to force_stderr, it
makes more sense.
[sbrivio: Added commit message]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
This actually leaves us with 0 uses of err(), but someone could want
to use it in the future, so we may as well leave it around.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Once a log file (specified on the commandline) is opened, the logging
functions will stop sending error logs to stderr, which is annoying if
passt has been started by another process that wants to collect error
messages from stderr so it can report why passt failed to start. It
would be much nicer if passt continued sending all log messages to
stderr until it daemonizes itself (at which point the process that
started passt can assume that it was started successfully).
The system log mask is set to LOG_EMERG when the process starts, and
we're already using that to do "special" logging during the period
from process start until the log level requested on the commandline is
processed (setting the log mask to something else). This period
*almost* matches with "the time before the process is daemonized"; if
we just delay setting the log mask a tiny bit, then it will match
exactly, and we can use it to determine if we need to send log
messages to stderr even when a log file has been specified and opened.
This patch delays the setting of the log mask until immediately before
the call to __daemon(). It also modifies logfn() slightly, so that it
will log to stderr any time log mask is LOG_EMERG, even if a log file
has been opened.
Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Adapted from a patch by Paul Holzinger: when pasta spawns a command,
operating without a pre-existing user and network namespace, it needs
to wait for the tap device to be configured and its handler ready,
before the command is actually executed.
Otherwise, something like:
pasta --config-net nslookup passt.top
usually fails as the nslookup command is issued before the network
interface is ready.
We can't adopt a simpler approach based on SIGSTOP and SIGCONT here:
the child runs in a separate PID namespace, so it can't send SIGSTOP
to itself as the kernel sees the child as init process and blocks
the delivery of the signal.
We could send SIGSTOP from the parent, but this wouldn't avoid the
possible condition where the child isn't ready to wait for it when
the parent sends it, also raised by Paul -- and SIGSTOP can't be
blocked, so it can never be pending.
Use SIGUSR1 instead: mask it before clone(), so that the child starts
with it blocked, and can safely wait for it. Once the parent is
ready, it sends SIGUSR1 to the child. If SIGUSR1 is sent before the
child is waiting for it, the kernel will queue it for us, because
it's blocked.
Reported-by: Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>
Fixes: 1392bc5ca0 ("Allow pasta to take a command to execute")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
This passes a fully connected stream socket to passt.
Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
[sbrivio: reuse fd_tap instead of adding a new descriptor,
imply --one-off on --fd, add to optstring and usage()]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
...so that we avoid printing some lines twice because log-level is
still set to LOG_EMERG, as if logging configuration didn't happen
yet.
While at it, note that logging to stderr doesn't really depend on
whether debug mode is enabled or not.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
We recently corrected some errors handling the endianness of IPv4
addresses. These are very easy errors to make since although we mostly
store them in network endianness, we sometimes need to manipulate them in
host endianness.
To reduce the chances of making such mistakes again, change to always using
a (struct in_addr) instead of a bare in_addr_t or uint32_t to store network
endian addresses. This makes it harder to accidentally do arithmetic or
comparisons on such addresses as if they were host endian.
We introduce a number of IN4_IS_ADDR_*() helpers to make it easier to
directly work with struct in_addr values. This has the additional benefit
of making the IPv4 and IPv6 paths more visually similar.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
In pasta mode, ICMP and ICMPv6 echo sockets relay back to us any
reply we send: we're on the same host as the target, after all. We
discard them by comparing the last sequence we sent with the sequence
we receive.
However, on the first reply for a given identifier, the sequence
might be zero, depending on the implementation of ping(8): we need
another value to indicate we haven't sent any sequence number, yet.
Use -1 as initialiser in the echo identifier map.
This is visible with Busybox's ping, and was reported by Paul on the
integration at https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/16141, with:
$ podman run --net=pasta alpine ping -c 2 192.168.188.1
...where only the second reply would be routed back.
Reported-by: Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>
Fixes: 33482d5bf2 ("passt: Add PASTA mode, major rework")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
We have a number of steps of self-isolation scattered across our code.
Improve function names and add comments to make it clearer what the self
isolation model is, what the steps do, and why they happen at the points
they happen.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
In some environments, such as KubeVirt pods, we might not have a
system logger available. We could choose to run in foreground, but
this takes away the convenient synchronisation mechanism derived from
forking to background when interfaces are ready.
Add optional logging to file with -l/--log-file and --log-size.
Unfortunately, this means we need to duplicate features that are more
appropriately implemented by a system logger, such as rotation. Keep
that reasonably simple, by using fallocate() with range collapsing
where supported (Linux kernel >= 3.15, extent-based ext4 and XFS) and
falling back to an unsophisticated block-by-block moving of entries
toward the beginning of the file once we reach the (mandatory) size
limit.
While at it, clarify the role of LOG_EMERG in passt.c.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Logging to file is going to add some further complexity that we don't
want to squeeze into util.c.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
TIMER_INTERVAL is the minimum of two separately defined intervals which
happen to have the same value at present. This results in an expression
which has the same value in both branches of a ternary operator, which
cppcheck warngs about. This is logically sound in this case, so suppress
the error (we appear to already have a similar suppression for clang-tidy).
Also add an unmatchedSuppression suppression, since only some cppcheck
versions complain about this instance.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Stop ignoring the return codes from sigaction() and signal(). Unlikely to
happen in practice, but if it ever did it could lead to really hard to
debug problems. So, take clang-tidy's advice and check for errors here.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
passt/pasta can interact with user namespaces in a number of ways:
1) With --netns-only we'll remain in our original user namespace
2) With --userns or a PID option to pasta we'll join either the given
user namespace or that of the PID
3) When pasta spawns a shell or command we'll start a new user namespace
for the command and then join it
4) With passt we'll create a new user namespace when we sandbox()
ourself
However (3) and (4) turn out to have essentially the same effect. In both
cases we create one new user namespace. The spawned command starts there,
and passt/pasta itself will live there from sandbox() onwards.
Because of this, we can simplify user namespace handling by moving the
userns handling earlier, to the same point we drop root in the original
namespace. Extend the drop_user() function to isolate_user() which does
both.
After switching UID and GID in the original userns, isolate_user() will
either join or create the userns we require. When we spawn a command with
pasta_start_ns()/pasta_setup_ns() we no longer need to create a userns,
because we're already made one. sandbox() likewise no longer needs to
create (or join) an userns because we're already in the one we need.
We no longer need c->pasta_userns_fd, since the fd is only used locally
in isolate_user(). Likewise we can replace c->netns_only with a local
in conf(), since it's not used outside there.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
passt/pasta contains a number of routines designed to isolate passt from
the rest of the system for security. These are spread through util.c and
passt.c. Move them together into a new isolation.c file.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
There are several places in the passt code where we have lint overrides
because we're not adding CLOEXEC flags to open or other operations.
Comments suggest this is because it's before we fork() into the background
but we'll need those file descriptors after we're in the background.
However, as the name suggests CLOEXEC closes on exec(), not on fork(). The
only place we exec() is either super early invoke the avx2 version of the
binary, or when we start a shell in pasta mode, which certainly *doesn't*
require the fds in question.
Add the CLOEXEC flag in those places, and remove the lint overrides.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
The context structure contains a batch of fields specific to IPv4 and to
IPv6 connectivity. Split those out into a sub-structure.
This allows the conf_ip4() and conf_ip6() functions, which take the
entire context but touch very little of it, to be given more specific
parameters, making it clearer what it affects without stepping through the
code.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
After recent changes, conf_ip() now has essentially entirely disjoint paths
for IPv4 and IPv6 configuration. So, it's cleaner to split them out into
different functions conf_ip4() and conf_ip6().
Splitting these out also lets us make the interface a bit nicer, having
them return success or failure directly, rather than manipulating c->v4
and c->v6 to indicate success/failure of the two versions.
Since these functions may also initialize the interface index for each
protocol, it turns out we can then drop c->v4 and c->v6 entirely, replacing
tests on those with tests on whether c->ifi4 or c->ifi6 is non-zero (since
a 0 interface index is never valid).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[sbrivio: Whitespace fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Otherwise, if the current PID has fewer digits than a previously
written one, the content will be wrong.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
We handle SIGQUIT and SIGTERM calling exit(), which is usually
implemented with the exit_group() system call.
If we don't allow exit_group(), we'll get a SIGSYS while handling
SIGQUIT and SIGTERM, which means a misleading non-zero exit code.
Reported-by: Wenli Quan <wquan@redhat.com>
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2101990
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
...instead of argv[0], which might or might not contain a valid path
to the executable itself. Instead of mangling argv[0], use the same
link to find out if we're already running the AVX2 build where
supported.
Alternatively, we could use execvpe(), but that might result in
running a different installed version, in case e.g. the set of
binaries is present in both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, with both
being in $PATH.
Reported-by: Wenli Quan <wquan@redhat.com>
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2101310
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
On some systems, user and group "nobody" might not be available. The
new --runas option allows to override the default "nobody" choice if
started as root.
Now that we allow this, drop the initgroups() call that was used to
add any additional groups for the given user, as that might now
grant unnecessarily broad permissions. For instance, several
distributions have a "kvm" group to allow regular user access to
/dev/kvm, and we don't need that in passt or pasta.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
This feature is available in slirp4netns but was missing in passt and
pasta.
Given that we don't do dynamic memory allocation, we need to bind
sockets while parsing port configuration. This means we need to
process all other options first, as they might affect addressing and
IP version support. It also implies a minor rework of how TCP and UDP
implementations bind sockets.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
It's actually quite easy to make it fail depending on the
environment, accurately report errors here.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>