[pve-devel] [PATCH container] fix creating unmanaged containers

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On 04.10.21 16:55, Oguz Bektas wrote:
> $keynames was not a hash reference since nothing was returned by
> ssh_host_key_types_to_generate for unmanaged containers, this causes the
> post_create_hook to fail and no container is created.

While $keynames is not a hash ref it isn't supposed to always be one, that's
why the check is:

return if !$keynames || !scalar(keys $keynames->%*);

so this patch seems wrong? At least in regards on the fix's reasoning

> 
> fix by returning an empty hash so that $keynames can be a hashref and
> processed accordingly.
> 
> also dropped a remaining unmanaged return (should have no effect anymore
> anyways, since $self->{plugin} is now set to 'unmanaged' instead of
> empty)

good catch, but should be another, separate patch..

> 
> ---
> 
> note that we can still allow generating ssh keys for unmanaged
> containers, i have another patch like that (i can send if you wish),
> which doesn't skip creating ssh keys -- however for that to work we need
> to use functions from PVE::Tools (so that we can have ct_file_exists and
> friends)
> 
>  src/PVE/LXC/Setup.pm           | 2 --
>  src/PVE/LXC/Setup/Unmanaged.pm | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/PVE/LXC/Setup.pm b/src/PVE/LXC/Setup.pm
> index cfbe02c..4e211ef 100644
> --- a/src/PVE/LXC/Setup.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/LXC/Setup.pm
> @@ -228,8 +228,6 @@ my sub generate_ssh_key { # create temporary key in hosts' /run, then read and u
>  sub rewrite_ssh_host_keys {
>      my ($self) = @_;
>  
> -    return if !$self->{plugin}; # unmanaged
> -
>      my $plugin = $self->{plugin};
>  
>      my $keynames = $plugin->ssh_host_key_types_to_generate();
> diff --git a/src/PVE/LXC/Setup/Unmanaged.pm b/src/PVE/LXC/Setup/Unmanaged.pm
> index 38e245f..2ca2898 100644
> --- a/src/PVE/LXC/Setup/Unmanaged.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/LXC/Setup/Unmanaged.pm
> @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ sub unified_cgroupv2_support {
>  
>  sub ssh_host_key_types_to_generate {
>      my ($self) = @_;
> +    return {};
>  }
>  
>  # hooks
>