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    winebus.sys: Add code path to bypass udevd and use inotify. · ab3416c6
    Simon McVittie authored
    In a container with a non-trivial user namespace, we cannot rely on
    libudev communicating with udevd as a way to monitor device nodes,
    for the following reasons:
    
    * If uid 0 from the host is not mapped to uid 0 in the container, libudev
      cannot authenticate netlink messages from the host, because their sender
      uid appears to be the overflowuid. Resolving this by mapping uid 0 into
      the container is not allowed when creating user namespaces as an
      unprivileged user, and even when running as a privileged user, it might
      be desirable for the real uid 0 to not be mapped as a way to harden the
      security boundary between container and host.
    
    * Depending on the container configuration, initial enumeration might
      not be able to read /run/udev from the host system. If it can't, sysfs
      attributes will still work because those are read directly from the
      kernel via sysfs, but udev properties coming from user-space rules
      (in particular ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK and friends) will appear to be missing.
    
    * The protocols between udevd and libudev (netlink messages for monitoring,
      and /run/udev for initial enumeration) are considered to be private to
      a particular version of udev, and are not a stable API; but in a
      container, we cannot expect that our copy of libudev is at exactly the
      same version as udevd on the host system.
    
    Sidestep this by adding a code path that continues to use libudev for
    the parts that work regardless of whether udevd is running or can be
    communicated with.
    Signed-off-by: 's avatarRémi Bernon <rbernon@codeweavers.com>
    Signed-off-by: 's avatarAlexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org>
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