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From: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
To: devel@spectrum-os.org
Subject: [PATCH] img/app: fix running AppImages
Date: Mon,  8 Dec 2025 22:11:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251208211101.430776-1-hi@alyssa.is> (raw)

The non-root user that applications run as can't mount FUSE
filesystems.  I don't want to introduce setuid or an IPC service just
for running AppImages, although we could revisit if we find that
applications themselves rely on being able to mount FUSE filesystems.
For now, it'll be more efficient to use the in-kernel squashfs
implementation anyway.

We do need to set a few environment variables normally set by the
AppImage runtime, but as far as I can tell it doesn't do much more
than this that applications could rely on.

This only works for type 2 AppImages, but I expect that's just about
every AppImage nowadays, and if turns out not to be it shouldn't be
too hard to support type 1.

Fixes: 8bfcbf9 ("img/app: run applications as non-root")
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
---
 img/app/Makefile                |  2 +-
 img/app/image/etc/s6-rc/app/run | 11 +++++++++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/img/app/Makefile b/img/app/Makefile
index ddfc8ef..7354f89 100644
--- a/img/app/Makefile
+++ b/img/app/Makefile
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ $(imgdir)/appvm/blk/root.img: ../../scripts/make-gpt.sh ../../scripts/sfdisk-fie
 	    build/rootfs.erofs:root:5460386f-2203-4911-8694-91400125c604:root
 	mv $@.tmp $@
 
-DIRS = dev home/user run proc sys tmp \
+DIRS = dev home/user run mnt proc sys tmp \
 	etc/s6-linux-init/run-image/pipewire \
 	etc/s6-linux-init/run-image/service \
 	etc/s6-linux-init/run-image/user \
diff --git a/img/app/image/etc/s6-rc/app/run b/img/app/image/etc/s6-rc/app/run
index e05d4fe..e691a63 100755
--- a/img/app/image/etc/s6-rc/app/run
+++ b/img/app/image/etc/s6-rc/app/run
@@ -14,10 +14,17 @@ foreground {
   withstdinas -E type
   case $type {
     appimage {
-      if { modprobe fuse }
+      if { modprobe loop }
+      if {
+        backtick -E offset { /run/virtiofs/virtiofs0/config/run --appimage-offset }
+        mount -o offset=${offset} /run/virtiofs/virtiofs0/config/run /mnt
+      }
       s6-setuidgid user
+      export APPIMAGE /run/virtiofs/virtiofs0/config/run
+      export APPDIR /mnt
+      export ARGV0 /mnt/AppRun
       export LD_LIBRARY_PATH /lib64
-      /run/virtiofs/virtiofs0/config/run
+      /mnt/AppRun
     }
     flatpak {
       s6-envdir -fnL /run/virtiofs/virtiofs0/config/params

base-commit: 5104fa720ce8b00612c5487fc47124fbf99e58c6
-- 
2.51.0


             reply	other threads:[~2025-12-08 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-08 21:11 Alyssa Ross [this message]
2025-12-08 21:15 ` [PATCH] img/app: fix running AppImages Demi Marie Obenour
2025-12-08 21:33   ` Alyssa Ross
2025-12-09 10:19 ` Alyssa Ross

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