cannot access pass device from within jail
Dan Langille
dan at langille.org
Sun Dec 17 20:49:43 UTC 2017
> On Dec 17, 2017, at 3:37 PM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 02:52:12PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> What suggestions do you have for where I should look next? I'm happy to start installing various builds of FreeBSD in order to track down which commit caused this.
>>
>> I'm trying to access a tape library from within a jail running on a FreeBSD 11.1 host. sa(4) devices are working (e.g. I can rewind nsa0).
>>
>> pass(4) devices (i.e. the tape changer ch0) are not working. This morning I posted to -scsi@: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2017-December/007608.html
>>
>> The device appears in the jail and has appropriate permissions. This access was granted
>> via /etc/devfs.rules using the same approach I used for FreeBSD 10.3
>>
>> The permissions in the jail:
>>
>> [root at bacula-sd-02 ~]# ls -l /dev/pass7
>> crw------- 1 root operator 0x74 Dec 16 21:52 /dev/pass7
>>
>> The command in the jail:
>>
>> [root at bacula-sd-02 ~]# mtx -f /dev/pass7 status
>> cannot open SCSI device '/dev/pass7' - Operation not permitted
>>
>> Here is the truss output of the command in question: https://gist.github.com/dlangille/b80ee804b8080e1cbf5b5ab67f0bdabe
>
> Does it work to access the pass device from host using host' /dev ?
Yes, it does. see "This command on the host" at https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2017-December/007610.html
> Same question for the host access using the nodes of the jailed devfs mount.
I didn't try that, but I will soon. To be clear, does this command on the host look like what you have in mind?
mtx -f /usr/jails/bacula-sd-02/dev/pass7 status
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Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon
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