Refactor log and reaper exec to omit MAINPID

Using MAINPID breaks systemd's exit detection, as it stops watching the
original pid, but is unable to watch the new pid as it is not a child
of systemd itself. The best we can do is just notify when execing the child
process.

We also need to consolidate forking into a sigle place so that we don't
end up with multiple levels of child processes if both redirecting log
output and reaping child processes.

Signed-off-by: Brad Davidson <brad.davidson@rancher.com>
(cherry picked from commit dc18ef2e51)

pkg/cli/agent/agent.go

@@ -23,12 +23,13 @@ func Run(ctx *cli.Context) error {
 	// database credentials or other secrets.
 	gspt.SetProcTitle(os.Args[0] + " agent")
 
-	// Do init stuff if pid 1.
+	// Evacuate cgroup v2 before doing anything else that may fork.
-	// This must be done before InitLogging as that may reexec in order to capture log output
+	if err := cmds.EvacuateCgroup2(); err != nil {
-	if err := cmds.HandleInit(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	// Initialize logging, and subprocess reaping if necessary.
+	// Log output redirection and subprocess reaping both require forking.
 	if err := cmds.InitLogging(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}

pkg/cli/cmds/init_default.go

@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 
 package cmds
 
-func HandleInit() error {
+func EvacuateCgroup2() error {
 	return nil
 }

pkg/cli/cmds/init_linux.go

@@ -4,83 +4,21 @@ package cmds
 
 import (
 	"os"
-	"os/signal"
-	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/containerd/containerd/sys"
-	"github.com/erikdubbelboer/gspt"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
-	"github.com/rancher/k3s/pkg/version"
 	"github.com/rootless-containers/rootlesskit/pkg/parent/cgrouputil"
 )
 
-// HandleInit takes care of things that need to be done when running as process 1, usually in a
+// EvacuateCgroup2 will handle evacuating the root cgroup in order to enable subtree_control,
-// Docker container. This includes evacuating the root cgroup and reaping child pids.
+// if running as pid 1 without rootless support.
-func HandleInit() error {
+func EvacuateCgroup2() error {
-	if os.Getpid() != 1 {
+	if os.Getpid() == 1 && !sys.RunningInUserNS() {
-		return nil
-	}
-
-	if !sys.RunningInUserNS() {
 		// The root cgroup has to be empty to enable subtree_control, so evacuate it by placing
 		// ourselves in the init cgroup.
 		if err := cgrouputil.EvacuateCgroup2("init"); err != nil {
 			return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to evacuate root cgroup")
 		}
 	}
-
-	pwd, err := os.Getwd()
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to get working directory for init process")
-	}
-
-	go reapChildren()
-
-	// fork the main process to do work so that this init process can handle reaping pids
-	// without interfering with any other exec's that the rest of the codebase may do.
-	var wstatus syscall.WaitStatus
-	pattrs := &syscall.ProcAttr{
-		Dir: pwd,
-		Env: os.Environ(),
-		Sys: &syscall.SysProcAttr{Setsid: true},
-		Files: []uintptr{
-			uintptr(syscall.Stdin),
-			uintptr(syscall.Stdout),
-			uintptr(syscall.Stderr),
-		},
-	}
-	pid, err := syscall.ForkExec(os.Args[0], os.Args, pattrs)
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to fork/exec "+version.Program)
-	}
-
-	gspt.SetProcTitle(os.Args[0] + " init")
-	// wait for main process to exit, and return its status when it does
-	_, err = syscall.Wait4(pid, &wstatus, 0, nil)
-	for err == syscall.EINTR {
-		_, err = syscall.Wait4(pid, &wstatus, 0, nil)
-	}
-	os.Exit(wstatus.ExitStatus())
 	return nil
 }
-
-//reapChildren calls Wait4 whenever SIGCHLD is received
-func reapChildren() {
-	sigs := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
-	signal.Notify(sigs, syscall.SIGCHLD)
-	for {
-		select {
-		case <-sigs:
-		}
-		for {
-			var wstatus syscall.WaitStatus
-			_, err := syscall.Wait4(-1, &wstatus, 0, nil)
-			for err == syscall.EINTR {
-				_, err = syscall.Wait4(-1, &wstatus, 0, nil)
-			}
-			if err == nil || err == syscall.ECHILD {
-				break
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}

pkg/cli/cmds/log.go

@@ -3,15 +3,10 @@ package cmds
 import (
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
-	"io"
-	"os"
 	"strconv"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/docker/docker/pkg/reexec"
-	"github.com/natefinch/lumberjack"
-	"github.com/rancher/k3s/pkg/version"
 	"github.com/urfave/cli"
 )
 
@@ -52,8 +47,8 @@ var (
 func InitLogging() error {
 	var rErr error
 	logSetupOnce.Do(func() {
-		if LogConfig.LogFile != "" && os.Getenv("_K3S_LOG_REEXEC_") == "" {
+		if err := forkIfLoggingOrReaping(); err != nil {
-			rErr = runWithLogging()
+			rErr = err
 			return
 		}
 
@@ -76,31 +71,6 @@ func checkUnixTimestamp() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-func runWithLogging() error {
-	var (
-		l io.Writer
-	)
-	l = &lumberjack.Logger{
-		Filename:   LogConfig.LogFile,
-		MaxSize:    50,
-		MaxBackups: 3,
-		MaxAge:     28,
-		Compress:   true,
-	}
-	if LogConfig.AlsoLogToStderr {
-		l = io.MultiWriter(l, os.Stderr)
-	}
-
-	args := append([]string{version.Program}, os.Args[1:]...)
-	cmd := reexec.Command(args...)
-	cmd.Env = os.Environ()
-	cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env, "_K3S_LOG_REEXEC_=true")
-	cmd.Stderr = l
-	cmd.Stdout = l
-	cmd.Stdin = os.Stdin
-	return cmd.Run()
-}
-
 func setupLogging() {
 	flag.Set("v", strconv.Itoa(LogConfig.VLevel))
 	flag.Set("vmodule", LogConfig.VModule)

pkg/cli/cmds/log_default.go

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+// +build !linux !cgo
+
+package cmds
+
+func forkIfLoggingOrReaping() error {
+	return nil
+}

pkg/cli/cmds/log_linux.go

@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+// +build linux,cgo
+
+package cmds
+
+import (
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"os/signal"
+	"syscall"
+
+	systemd "github.com/coreos/go-systemd/daemon"
+	"github.com/erikdubbelboer/gspt"
+	"github.com/natefinch/lumberjack"
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"github.com/rancher/k3s/pkg/version"
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+)
+
+// forkIfLoggingOrReaping handles forking off the actual k3s process if it is necessary to
+// capture log output, or reap child processes. Reaping is only necessary when running
+// as pid 1.
+func forkIfLoggingOrReaping() error {
+	var stdout, stderr io.Writer = os.Stdout, os.Stderr
+	enableLogRedirect := LogConfig.LogFile != "" && os.Getenv("_K3S_LOG_REEXEC_") == ""
+	enableReaping := os.Getpid() == 1
+
+	if enableLogRedirect {
+		var l io.Writer = &lumberjack.Logger{
+			Filename:   LogConfig.LogFile,
+			MaxSize:    50,
+			MaxBackups: 3,
+			MaxAge:     28,
+			Compress:   true,
+		}
+		if LogConfig.AlsoLogToStderr {
+			l = io.MultiWriter(l, os.Stderr)
+		}
+		stdout = l
+		stderr = l
+	}
+
+	if enableLogRedirect || enableReaping {
+		gspt.SetProcTitle(os.Args[0] + " init")
+
+		pwd, err := os.Getwd()
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to get working directory")
+		}
+
+		if enableReaping {
+			// If we're running as pid 1 we need to reap child processes or defunct containerd-shim
+			// child processes will accumulate.
+			unix.Prctl(unix.PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER, uintptr(1), 0, 0, 0)
+			go reapChildren()
+		}
+
+		args := append([]string{version.Program}, os.Args[1:]...)
+		env := append(os.Environ(), "_K3S_LOG_REEXEC_=true", "NOTIFY_SOCKET=")
+		cmd := &exec.Cmd{
+			Path:   os.Args[0],
+			Dir:    pwd,
+			Args:   args,
+			Env:    env,
+			Stdin:  os.Stdin,
+			Stdout: stdout,
+			Stderr: stderr,
+			SysProcAttr: &syscall.SysProcAttr{
+				Setsid: true,
+			},
+		}
+		if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+
+		// The child process won't be allowed to notify, so we send one for it as soon as it's started,
+		// and then wait for it to exit and pass along the exit code.
+		systemd.SdNotify(true, "READY=1\n")
+		cmd.Wait()
+		os.Exit(cmd.ProcessState.ExitCode())
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+//reapChildren calls Wait4 whenever SIGCHLD is received
+func reapChildren() {
+	sigs := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
+	signal.Notify(sigs, syscall.SIGCHLD)
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-sigs:
+		}
+		for {
+			var wstatus syscall.WaitStatus
+			_, err := syscall.Wait4(-1, &wstatus, 0, nil)
+			for err == syscall.EINTR {
+				_, err = syscall.Wait4(-1, &wstatus, 0, nil)
+			}
+			if err == nil || err == syscall.ECHILD {
+				break
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}

pkg/cli/server/server.go

@@ -55,12 +55,13 @@ func run(app *cli.Context, cfg *cmds.Server, leaderControllers server.CustomCont
 	// database credentials or other secrets.
 	gspt.SetProcTitle(os.Args[0] + " server")
 
-	// Do init stuff if pid 1.
+	// Evacuate cgroup v2 before doing anything else that may fork.
-	// This must be done before InitLogging as that may reexec in order to capture log output
+	if err := cmds.EvacuateCgroup2(); err != nil {
-	if err := cmds.HandleInit(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	// Initialize logging, and subprocess reaping if necessary.
+	// Log output redirection and subprocess reaping both require forking.
 	if err := cmds.InitLogging(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}