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author | Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com> | 2020-07-17 10:39:40 +0200 |
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committer | Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> | 2020-07-24 13:21:41 +0200 |
commit | 5105e844c2ff6a3e320bf8cdadc5094d4eaef2b7 (patch) | |
tree | 00a9703ddda483c8a9918e6a9e39d7cd3a8d659c /iptables/xshared.c | |
parent | c03b3166d67ef9606fdf52c34cfd38a8bf78a4ab (diff) |
iptables: accept lock file name at runtime
allow users to override at runtime the lock file to use through the
XTABLES_LOCKFILE environment variable.
It allows to use iptables when the user has granted enough
capabilities (e.g. a user+network namespace) to configure the network
but that lacks access to the XT_LOCK_NAME (by default placed under
/run).
$ XTABLES_LOCKFILE=/tmp/xtables unshare -rn iptables ...
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'iptables/xshared.c')
-rw-r--r-- | iptables/xshared.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/iptables/xshared.c b/iptables/xshared.c index c1d1371a..7d97637f 100644 --- a/iptables/xshared.c +++ b/iptables/xshared.c @@ -249,15 +249,20 @@ void xs_init_match(struct xtables_match *match) static int xtables_lock(int wait, struct timeval *wait_interval) { struct timeval time_left, wait_time; + const char *lock_file; int fd, i = 0; time_left.tv_sec = wait; time_left.tv_usec = 0; - fd = open(XT_LOCK_NAME, O_CREAT, 0600); + lock_file = getenv("XTABLES_LOCKFILE"); + if (lock_file == NULL || lock_file[0] == '\0') + lock_file = XT_LOCK_NAME; + + fd = open(lock_file, O_CREAT, 0600); if (fd < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Fatal: can't open lock file %s: %s\n", - XT_LOCK_NAME, strerror(errno)); + lock_file, strerror(errno)); return XT_LOCK_FAILED; } @@ -265,7 +270,7 @@ static int xtables_lock(int wait, struct timeval *wait_interval) if (flock(fd, LOCK_EX) == 0) return fd; - fprintf(stderr, "Can't lock %s: %s\n", XT_LOCK_NAME, + fprintf(stderr, "Can't lock %s: %s\n", lock_file, strerror(errno)); return XT_LOCK_BUSY; } |