From 2ceb03d05e6cf365963ab9d3d8af45158097e906 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 10:41:51 +0200
Subject: rootless: automatically recreate the pause.pid file

if the pause process cannot be joined, remove the pause.pid while
keeping a lock on it, and try to recreate it.

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
---
 cmd/podman/main_local.go | 19 +++++++------------
 pkg/rootless/rootless.go | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 pkg/rootless/rootless.go

diff --git a/cmd/podman/main_local.go b/cmd/podman/main_local.go
index 917096e17..bdffb6b1e 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/main_local.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/main_local.go
@@ -200,17 +200,12 @@ func setupRootless(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 		return errors.Wrapf(err, "could not get pause process pid file path")
 	}
 
-	if _, err := os.Stat(pausePidPath); err == nil {
-		became, ret, err := rootless.TryJoinFromFilePaths("", false, []string{pausePidPath})
-		if err != nil {
-			logrus.Errorf("cannot join pause process.  You may need to remove %s and stop all containers", pausePidPath)
-			logrus.Errorf("you can use `%s system migrate` to recreate the pause process and restart the containers", os.Args[0])
-			logrus.Errorf(err.Error())
-			os.Exit(1)
-		}
-		if became {
-			os.Exit(ret)
-		}
+	became, ret, err := rootless.TryJoinPauseProcess(pausePidPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if became {
+		os.Exit(ret)
 	}
 
 	// if there is no pid file, try to join existing containers, and create a pause process.
@@ -225,7 +220,7 @@ func setupRootless(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 		paths = append(paths, ctr.Config().ConmonPidFile)
 	}
 
-	became, ret, err := rootless.TryJoinFromFilePaths(pausePidPath, true, paths)
+	became, ret, err = rootless.TryJoinFromFilePaths(pausePidPath, true, paths)
 	if err := movePauseProcessToScope(); err != nil {
 		conf, err := runtime.GetConfig()
 		if err != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/rootless/rootless.go b/pkg/rootless/rootless.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7e9fe9db6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/rootless/rootless.go
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package rootless
+
+import (
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/containers/storage"
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+)
+
+func TryJoinPauseProcess(pausePidPath string) (bool, int, error) {
+	if _, err := os.Stat(pausePidPath); err != nil {
+		return false, -1, nil
+	}
+
+	became, ret, err := TryJoinFromFilePaths("", false, []string{pausePidPath})
+	if err == nil {
+		return became, ret, err
+	}
+
+	// It could not join the pause process, let's lock the file before trying to delete it.
+	pidFileLock, err := storage.GetLockfile(pausePidPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		// The file was deleted by another process.
+		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			return false, -1, nil
+		}
+		return false, -1, errors.Wrapf(err, "error acquiring lock on %s", pausePidPath)
+	}
+
+	pidFileLock.Lock()
+	defer func() {
+		if pidFileLock.Locked() {
+			pidFileLock.Unlock()
+		}
+	}()
+
+	// Now the pause PID file is locked.  Try to join once again in case it changed while it was not locked.
+	became, ret, err = TryJoinFromFilePaths("", false, []string{pausePidPath})
+	if err != nil {
+		// It is still failing.  We can safely remove it.
+		os.Remove(pausePidPath)
+		return false, -1, nil
+	}
+	return became, ret, err
+}
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