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-rw-r--r--tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c16
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c b/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c
index 3b6d16a041..9e5537506c 100644
--- a/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c
+++ b/tools/virtiofsd/fuse_virtio.c
@@ -949,6 +949,22 @@ int virtio_session_mount(struct fuse_session *se)
{
int ret;
+ /*
+ * Test that unshare(CLONE_FS) works. fv_queue_worker() will need it. It's
+ * an unprivileged system call but some Docker/Moby versions are known to
+ * reject it via seccomp when CAP_SYS_ADMIN is not given.
+ *
+ * Note that the program is single-threaded here so this syscall has no
+ * visible effect and is safe to make.
+ */
+ ret = unshare(CLONE_FS);
+ if (ret == -1 && errno == EPERM) {
+ fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_ERR, "unshare(CLONE_FS) failed with EPERM. If "
+ "running in a container please check that the container "
+ "runtime seccomp policy allows unshare.\n");
+ return -1;
+ }
+
ret = fv_create_listen_socket(se);
if (ret < 0) {
return ret;