[Bug 1591124] [NEW] LXC: Cannot create a container with the specific alias "tasks"

[Simos Xenitellis ]

Public bug reported:

When trying to launch a container with the specific alias "tasks", it
fails to launch.

$ lxc launch d23ee1f4fd28 tasks
Creating tasks
Starting tasks
error: Error calling 'lxd forkstart tasks /var/lib/lxd/containers /var/log/lxd/tasks/lxc.conf': err='exit status 1'
Try `lxc info --show-log tasks` for more info
Exit 1

The reason is that in /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/ there is already a file called "tasks". In that directory, any new containers is created as a new directory that has as a name the alias that we have given.
Since "tasks" is reserved", lxc fails to continue.

Here are the contents of the directory
$ ls -l /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 5 root 165536 0 Ιούν 10 12:32 c1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Ιούν 10 12:53 cgroup.clone_children
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Ιούν 10 12:53 cgroup.procs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Ιούν 10 12:53 notify_on_release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Ιούν 10 12:53 tasks

Currently, there is potential conflict with "tasks" only as the other filenames are invalid hostnames (contain dots or underscores).
Presumably in the future there might be more such files.

Among the solutions,
1. the container directories in /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/ should have something like ".lxd" appended to them so that there is no future conflict.

** Affects: open-iscsi (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  LXC: Cannot create a container with the specific alias "tasks"

Status in open-iscsi package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When trying to launch a container with the specific alias "tasks", it
  fails to launch.

  $ lxc launch d23ee1f4fd28 tasks
  Creating tasks
  Starting tasks
  error: Error calling 'lxd forkstart tasks /var/lib/lxd/containers /var/log/lxd/tasks/lxc.conf': err='exit status 1'
  Try `lxc info --show-log tasks` for more info
  Exit 1

  The reason is that in /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/ there is already a file called "tasks". In that directory, any new containers is created as a new directory that has as a name the alias that we have given.
  Since "tasks" is reserved", lxc fails to continue.

  Here are the contents of the directory
  $ ls -l /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/
  total 0
  drwxrwxr-x 5 root 165536 0 Ιούν 10 12:32 c1
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Ιούν 10 12:53 cgroup.clone_children
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Ιούν 10 12:53 cgroup.procs
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Ιούν 10 12:53 notify_on_release
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Ιούν 10 12:53 tasks

  Currently, there is potential conflict with "tasks" only as the other filenames are invalid hostnames (contain dots or underscores).
  Presumably in the future there might be more such files.

  Among the solutions,
  1. the container directories in /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd/lxc/ should have something like ".lxd" appended to them so that there is no future conflict.

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