Pids-limit should only be set if the user set it

Currently we are sending over pids-limits from the user even if they
never modified the defaults.  The pids limit should be set at the server
side unless modified by the user.

This issue has led to failures on systems that were running with cgroups V1.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>

4 files changed, 18 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/cmd/podman/common/create.go b/cmd/podman/common/create.go
index b7940fb87..ee7f957cc 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/common/create.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/common/create.go
@@ -329,8 +329,7 @@ func GetCreateFlags(cf *ContainerCLIOpts) *pflag.FlagSet {
 		"pid", "",
 		"PID namespace to use",
 	)
-	createFlags.Int64Var(
-		&cf.PIDsLimit,
+	createFlags.Int64(
 		"pids-limit", containerConfig.PidsLimit(),
 		"Tune container pids limit (set 0 for unlimited, -1 for server defaults)",
 	)
diff --git a/cmd/podman/common/create_opts.go b/cmd/podman/common/create_opts.go
index f577a0875..08ffa5544 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/common/create_opts.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/common/create_opts.go
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ type ContainerCLIOpts struct {
 	OverrideArch      string
 	OverrideOS        string
 	PID               string
-	PIDsLimit         int64
+	PIDsLimit         *int64
 	Pod               string
 	PodIDFile         string
 	Privileged        bool
diff --git a/cmd/podman/common/specgen.go b/cmd/podman/common/specgen.go
index ae61e5283..b4f786da2 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/common/specgen.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/common/specgen.go
@@ -7,14 +7,12 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/containers/common/pkg/config"
 	"github.com/containers/image/v5/manifest"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/v2/cmd/podman/parse"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/v2/libpod/define"
 	ann "github.com/containers/libpod/v2/pkg/annotations"
 	envLib "github.com/containers/libpod/v2/pkg/env"
 	ns "github.com/containers/libpod/v2/pkg/namespaces"
-	"github.com/containers/libpod/v2/pkg/rootless"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/v2/pkg/specgen"
 	systemdGen "github.com/containers/libpod/v2/pkg/systemd/generate"
 	"github.com/containers/libpod/v2/pkg/util"
@@ -127,25 +125,6 @@ func getIOLimits(s *specgen.SpecGenerator, c *ContainerCLIOpts) (*specs.LinuxBlo
 	return io, nil
 }
 
-func getPidsLimits(c *ContainerCLIOpts) *specs.LinuxPids {
-	pids := &specs.LinuxPids{}
-	if c.CGroupsMode == "disabled" && c.PIDsLimit != 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	if c.PIDsLimit < 0 {
-		if rootless.IsRootless() && containerConfig.Engine.CgroupManager != config.SystemdCgroupsManager {
-			return nil
-		}
-		pids.Limit = containerConfig.PidsLimit()
-		return pids
-	}
-	if c.PIDsLimit > 0 {
-		pids.Limit = c.PIDsLimit
-		return pids
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
 func getMemoryLimits(s *specgen.SpecGenerator, c *ContainerCLIOpts) (*specs.LinuxMemory, error) {
 	var err error
 	memory := &specs.LinuxMemory{}
@@ -454,7 +433,13 @@ func FillOutSpecGen(s *specgen.SpecGenerator, c *ContainerCLIOpts, args []string
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	s.ResourceLimits.Pids = getPidsLimits(c)
+	if c.PIDsLimit != nil {
+		pids := specs.LinuxPids{
+			Limit: *c.PIDsLimit,
+		}
+
+		s.ResourceLimits.Pids = &pids
+	}
 	s.ResourceLimits.CPU = getCPULimits(c)
 	if s.ResourceLimits.CPU == nil && s.ResourceLimits.Pids == nil && s.ResourceLimits.BlockIO == nil && s.ResourceLimits.Memory == nil {
 		s.ResourceLimits = nil
diff --git a/cmd/podman/containers/create.go b/cmd/podman/containers/create.go
index 42cee022e..dffa9d7fe 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/containers/create.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/containers/create.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/containers/common/pkg/config"
@@ -194,13 +195,18 @@ func createInit(c *cobra.Command) error {
 	cliVals.UTS = c.Flag("uts").Value.String()
 	cliVals.PID = c.Flag("pid").Value.String()
 	cliVals.CGroupsNS = c.Flag("cgroupns").Value.String()
-	if !c.Flag("pids-limit").Changed {
-		cliVals.PIDsLimit = -1
-	}
 	if c.Flag("entrypoint").Changed {
 		val := c.Flag("entrypoint").Value.String()
 		cliVals.Entrypoint = &val
 	}
+	if c.Flags().Changed("pids-limit") {
+		val := c.Flag("pids-limit").Value.String()
+		pidsLimit, err := strconv.ParseInt(val, 0, 10)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		cliVals.PIDsLimit = &pidsLimit
+	}
 	if c.Flags().Changed("env") {
 		env, err := c.Flags().GetStringArray("env")
 		if err != nil {