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| | // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
// SPDX-License-Identifier: EUPL-1.2+
//! Flatpak installations look like this:
//!
//! ```text
//! flatpak/
//! ├── app/
//! │ └── org.gnome.TextEditor/
//! │ ├── current -> x86_64/stable
//! │ └── x86_64/
//! │ └── stable/
//! │ ├── 0029140121b39f5b7cf4d44fd46b0708eee67f395b5e1291628612a0358fb909/
//! │ │ └── …
//! │ └── active -> 0029140121b39f5b7cf4d44fd46b0708eee67f395b5e1291628612a0358fb909
//! ├── db/
//! ├── exports/
//! │ └── …
//! ├── repo
//! │ ├── config
//! │ ├── objects
//! │ ├── tmp
//! │ │ └── cache
//! │ │ └── …
//! │ └── …
//! └── runtime
//! ├── org.gnome.Platform
//! │ └── x86_64
//! │ └── 49
//! │ ├── active -> bf6aa432cb310726f4ac0ec08cc88558619e1d4bd4b964e27e95187ecaad5400
//! │ └── bf6aa432cb310726f4ac0ec08cc88558619e1d4bd4b964e27e95187ecaad5400
//! │ └── …
//! └── …
//! ```
//!
//! The purpose of this program is to use bind mounts to construct a
//! Flatpak installation containing only a single application and
//! runtime, which can be passed through to a VM without exposing
//! other installed applications.
mod keyfile;
mod metadata;
use std::borrow::Cow;
use std::env::{ArgsOs, args_os};
use std::ffi::OsStr;
use std::io;
use std::os::unix::prelude::*;
use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
use std::process::exit;
use pathrs::Root;
use pathrs::flags::{OpenFlags, ResolverFlags};
use rustix::fs::{CWD, FileType, fstat};
use rustix::mount::{MoveMountFlags, OpenTreeFlags, move_mount, open_tree};
use metadata::extract_runtime;
fn ex_usage() -> ! {
eprintln!("Usage: mount-flatpak userdata installation app");
exit(1);
}
fn mount_commit(
source_commit: &dyn AsFd,
target_installation: &Root,
path: &Path,
) -> Result<(), String> {
let source_commit_tree = open_tree(
source_commit,
"",
OpenTreeFlags::AT_EMPTY_PATH
| OpenTreeFlags::OPEN_TREE_CLONE
| OpenTreeFlags::OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC
| OpenTreeFlags::AT_RECURSIVE,
)
.map_err(|e| format!("cloning source commit tree: {e}"))?;
let target_commit_dir = target_installation
.mkdir_all(path, &PermissionsExt::from_mode(0o700))
.map_err(|e| format!("creating target commit directory: {e}"))?;
move_mount(
source_commit_tree,
"",
target_commit_dir,
"",
MoveMountFlags::MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH | MoveMountFlags::MOVE_MOUNT_T_EMPTY_PATH,
)
.map_err(|e| format!("mounting commit: {e}"))
}
fn run(mut args: ArgsOs) -> Result<(), String> {
let Some(user_data_path) = args.next().map(PathBuf::from) else {
ex_usage();
};
let Some(installation_path) = args.next().map(PathBuf::from) else {
ex_usage();
};
let Some(app) = args.next() else {
ex_usage();
};
if args.next().is_some() {
ex_usage();
}
let mut user_data =
Root::open(&user_data_path).map_err(|e| format!("opening user data partition: {e}"))?;
user_data.set_resolver_flags(ResolverFlags::NO_SYMLINKS);
let mut source_installation_dir = user_data
.open_subpath(&installation_path, OpenFlags::O_PATH)
.map(Root::from_fd)
.map_err(|e| format!("opening source flatpak installation: {e}"))?;
source_installation_dir.set_resolver_flags(ResolverFlags::NO_SYMLINKS);
std::fs::create_dir("flatpak")
.map_err(|e| format!("creating target flatpak installation: {e}"))?;
let target_installation_dir = open_tree(
CWD,
"flatpak",
OpenTreeFlags::OPEN_TREE_CLONE
| OpenTreeFlags::OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC
| OpenTreeFlags::AT_RECURSIVE
| OpenTreeFlags::AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW,
)
.map_err(|e| format!("opening target flatpak installation: {e}"))?;
let mut target_installation_dir = Root::from_fd(target_installation_dir);
target_installation_dir.set_resolver_flags(ResolverFlags::NO_SYMLINKS);
let mut full_app_path = installation_path.join("app");
full_app_path.push(&app);
full_app_path.push("current");
let arch_and_branch = source_installation_dir
.readlink(&full_app_path)
.map_err(|e| format!("reading current app arch and branch: {e}"))?;
let mut components = arch_and_branch.components();
let arch = components.next().unwrap().as_os_str();
let branch = components.as_path().as_os_str();
if branch.is_empty() {
return Err("can't infer branch from \"current\" link".to_string());
}
full_app_path.pop();
full_app_path.push(&arch_and_branch);
full_app_path.push("active");
let commit = source_installation_dir
.readlink(&full_app_path)
.map_err(|e| format!("reading active app commit: {e}"))?
.into_os_string();
full_app_path.pop();
full_app_path.push(&commit);
let source_app_dir = source_installation_dir
.resolve(&full_app_path)
.map_err(|e| format!("opening source app directory: {e}"))?;
let metadata = source_installation_dir
.resolve(full_app_path.join("metadata"))
.map_err(|e| format!("resolving app metadata: {e}"))?;
let metadata_stat =
fstat(&metadata).map_err(|e| format!("checking app metadata is a regular file: {e}"))?;
let metadata_type = FileType::from_raw_mode(metadata_stat.st_mode);
if !metadata_type.is_file() {
let e = format!("type of app metadata is {metadata_type:?}, not RegularFile");
return Err(e);
}
let metadata = metadata
.reopen(OpenFlags::O_RDONLY)
.map_err(|e| format!("opening app metadata: {e}"))?;
let runtime =
extract_runtime(metadata).map_err(|e| format!("reading runtime from metadata: {e}"))?;
let mut full_runtime_path = installation_path.join("runtime");
full_runtime_path.push(runtime);
full_runtime_path.push("active");
let runtime_commit = source_installation_dir
.readlink(&full_runtime_path)
.map_err(|e| format!("reading active runtime commit: {e}"))?
.into_os_string();
full_runtime_path.pop();
full_runtime_path.push(&runtime_commit);
let source_runtime_dir = source_installation_dir
.resolve(&full_runtime_path)
.map_err(|e| format!("opening source runtime directory: {e}"))?;
mount_commit(&source_app_dir, &target_installation_dir, &full_app_path)?;
mount_commit(
&source_runtime_dir,
&target_installation_dir,
&full_runtime_path,
)?;
target_installation_dir
.mkdir_all("repo/objects", &PermissionsExt::from_mode(0o700))
.map_err(|e| format!("creating repo/objects: {e}"))?;
target_installation_dir
.mkdir_all("repo/tmp/cache", &PermissionsExt::from_mode(0o700))
.map_err(|e| format!("creating repo/tmp/cache: {e}"))?;
let config_target = target_installation_dir
.create_file(
"repo/config",
OpenFlags::O_WRONLY | OpenFlags::O_CLOEXEC,
&PermissionsExt::from_mode(0o700),
)
.map_err(|e| format!("creating repo/config: {e}"))?;
let config_source_path = env!("MOUNT_FLATPAK_CONFIG_PATH");
let config_source = open_tree(
CWD,
config_source_path,
OpenTreeFlags::OPEN_TREE_CLONE | OpenTreeFlags::OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC,
)
.map_err(|e| format!("opening {config_source_path}: {e}"))?;
move_mount(
config_source,
"",
config_target,
"",
MoveMountFlags::MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH | MoveMountFlags::MOVE_MOUNT_T_EMPTY_PATH,
)
.map_err(|e| format!("mounting config: {e}"))?;
let mut attr = libc::mount_attr {
attr_clr: libc::MOUNT_ATTR_NOSYMFOLLOW,
attr_set: libc::MOUNT_ATTR_RDONLY | libc::MOUNT_ATTR_NODEV,
propagation: libc::MS_SLAVE,
userns_fd: 0,
};
let empty = b"\0";
// SAFETY: we pass a valid FD, valid C string, and a valid mutable pointer with the
// correct size.
unsafe {
let r = libc::syscall(
libc::SYS_mount_setattr,
target_installation_dir.as_fd().as_raw_fd() as libc::c_long,
empty.as_ptr() as *const libc::c_char,
(libc::AT_EMPTY_PATH | libc::AT_RECURSIVE) as libc::c_long,
&mut attr as *mut libc::mount_attr,
size_of::<libc::mount_attr>() as libc::c_long,
);
if r == -1 {
return Err(format!(
"setting target mount attributes: {}",
io::Error::last_os_error()
));
}
}
move_mount(
target_installation_dir,
"",
CWD,
"flatpak",
MoveMountFlags::MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH,
)
.map_err(|e| format!("mounting target installation dir: {e}"))?;
std::fs::create_dir("params").map_err(|e| format!("creating params directory: {e}"))?;
std::fs::write("params/id", app.as_bytes()).map_err(|e| format!("writing params/id: {e}"))?;
std::fs::write("params/commit", commit.as_bytes())
.map_err(|e| format!("writing params/commit: {e}"))?;
std::fs::write("params/arch", arch.as_bytes())
.map_err(|e| format!("writing params/arch: {e}"))?;
std::fs::write("params/branch", branch.as_bytes())
.map_err(|e| format!("writing params/branch: {e}"))?;
std::fs::write("params/runtime-commit", runtime_commit.as_bytes())
.map_err(|e| format!("writing params/runtime-commit: {e}"))?;
Ok(())
}
fn main() {
let mut args = args_os();
let prog_name = args
.next()
.as_ref()
.map(Path::new)
.and_then(Path::file_name)
.map_or(Cow::Borrowed("mount-flatpak"), OsStr::to_string_lossy)
.into_owned();
if let Err(e) = run(args) {
eprintln!("{prog_name}: {e}");
exit(1);
}
}
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