On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 2:41 AM, Marcos Felipe Schwarz
<marcos.schw...@rnp.br> wrote:
> Got it fixed.
>
> The problem was related to not setting the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability at
> daemon-unix.c. Follows the patch bellow to set the capability and dynamically
> extract the group from OVS_USER_ID instead of forcing it to :hugetlbfs.
>
> diff --git a/lib/daemon-unix.c b/lib/daemon-unix.c
> index 839114f3e..3b94164ea 100644
> --- a/lib/daemon-unix.c
> +++ b/lib/daemon-unix.c
> @@ -818,6 +818,9 @@ daemon_become_new_user_linux(bool access_datapath
> OVS_UNUSED)
> ret = capng_update(CAPNG_ADD, cap_sets, CAP_NET_ADMIN)
> || capng_update(CAPNG_ADD, cap_sets, CAP_NET_RAW);
> }
> + if (!ret) {
> + ret = capng_update(CAPNG_ADD, cap_sets, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
> + }
> } else {
> ret = -1;
> }
> diff --git a/rhel/usr_lib_systemd_system_ovs-vswitchd.service.in
> b/rhel/usr_lib_systemd_system_ovs-vswitchd.service.in
> index c6d9aa1b8..94290a847 100644
> --- a/rhel/usr_lib_systemd_system_ovs-vswitchd.service.in
> +++ b/rhel/usr_lib_systemd_system_ovs-vswitchd.service.in
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Environment=HOME=/var/run/openvswitch
> EnvironmentFile=/etc/openvswitch/default.conf
> EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/openvswitch
> @begin_dpdk@
> -ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/chown :hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages
> +ExecStartPre=-/bin/sh -c 'chown :$(echo $OVS_USER_ID | tr ":" "\n" | tail
> -1) /dev/hugepages'
I think it's better to avoid using multiple useless forks, shell
script parameter expansion are better in this case:
ExecStartPre=-/bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/chown $${OVS_USER_ID##*:} /dev/hugepages'
> ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/chmod 0775 /dev/hugepages
> @end_dpdk@
> ExecStart=/usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl \
>
> Regards,
>
> Marcos Schwarz
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