Merge pull request #12276 from estesp/10246-really-fix-arg-list

Send archive options via pipe in chrootarchive

chrootarchive/archive.go

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package chrootarchive
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"flag"
 	"fmt"
@@ -29,7 +30,8 @@ func untar() {
 
 	var options *archive.TarOptions
 
-	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(os.Getenv("OPT")), &options); err != nil {
+	//read the options from the pipe "ExtraFiles"
+	if err := json.NewDecoder(os.NewFile(3, "options")).Decode(&options); err != nil {
 		fatal(err)
 	}
 
@@ -62,28 +64,39 @@ func Untar(tarArchive io.Reader, dest string, options *archive.TarOptions) error
 		}
 	}
 
-	// We can't pass the exclude list directly via cmd line
-	// because we easily overrun the shell max argument list length
-	// when the full image list is passed (e.g. when this is used
-	// by `docker load`). Instead we will add the JSON marshalled
-	// and placed in the env, which has significantly larger
-	// max size
-	data, err := json.Marshal(options)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("Untar json encode: %v", err)
-	}
 	decompressedArchive, err := archive.DecompressStream(tarArchive)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	defer decompressedArchive.Close()
 
+	// We can't pass a potentially large exclude list directly via cmd line
+	// because we easily overrun the kernel's max argument/environment size
+	// when the full image list is passed (e.g. when this is used by
+	// `docker load`). We will marshall the options via a pipe to the
+	// child
+	r, w, err := os.Pipe()
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Untar pipe failure: %v", err)
+	}
 	cmd := reexec.Command("docker-untar", dest)
 	cmd.Stdin = decompressedArchive
-	cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env, fmt.Sprintf("OPT=%s", data))
-	out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("Untar %s %s", err, out)
+	cmd.ExtraFiles = append(cmd.ExtraFiles, r)
+	var output bytes.Buffer
+	cmd.Stdout = &output
+	cmd.Stderr = &output
+
+	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Untar error on re-exec cmd: %v", err)
+	}
+	//write the options to the pipe for the untar exec to read
+	if err := json.NewEncoder(w).Encode(options); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Untar json encode to pipe failed: %v", err)
+	}
+	w.Close()
+
+	if err := cmd.Wait(); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("Untar re-exec error: %v: output: %s", err, output)
 	}
 	return nil
 }

chrootarchive/archive_test.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -48,6 +49,42 @@ func TestChrootTarUntar(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// gh#10426: Verify the fix for having a huge excludes list (like on `docker load` with large # of
+// local images)
+func TestChrootUntarWithHugeExcludesList(t *testing.T) {
+	tmpdir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "docker-TestChrootUntarHugeExcludes")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer os.RemoveAll(tmpdir)
+	src := filepath.Join(tmpdir, "src")
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(src, 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := ioutil.WriteFile(filepath.Join(src, "toto"), []byte("hello toto"), 0644); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	stream, err := archive.Tar(src, archive.Uncompressed)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	dest := filepath.Join(tmpdir, "dest")
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(dest, 0700); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	options := &archive.TarOptions{}
+	//65534 entries of 64-byte strings ~= 4MB of environment space which should overflow
+	//on most systems when passed via environment or command line arguments
+	excludes := make([]string, 65534, 65534)
+	for i := 0; i < 65534; i++ {
+		excludes[i] = strings.Repeat(string(i), 64)
+	}
+	options.ExcludePatterns = excludes
+	if err := Untar(stream, dest, options); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestChrootUntarEmptyArchive(t *testing.T) {
 	tmpdir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "docker-TestChrootUntarEmptyArchive")
 	if err != nil {