Subject: [bug#75810] [PATCH v2 2/9] daemon: Bind-mount all the inputs, not just directories.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:13:05 +0100

* nix/libstore/build.cc (DerivationGoal::startBuilder): Add all of
‘inputPaths’ to ‘dirsInChroot’ instead of hard-linking regular files.

Reported-by: Reepca Russelstein <[email-masked]>
Change-Id: I070987f92d73f187f7826a975bee9ee309d67f56
---
 nix/libstore/build.cc | 27 ++-------------------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nix/libstore/build.cc b/nix/libstore/build.cc
index edd01bab34d..f4cd2131c84 100644
--- a/nix/libstore/build.cc
+++ b/nix/libstore/build.cc
@@ -1850,9 +1850,7 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder()
 
         /* Make the closure of the inputs available in the chroot,
            rather than the whole store.  This prevents any access
-           to undeclared dependencies.  Directories are bind-mounted,
-           while other inputs are hard-linked (since only directories
-           can be bind-mounted).  !!! As an extra security
+           to undeclared dependencies.  !!! As an extra security
            precaution, make the fake store only writable by the
            build user. */
         Path chrootStoreDir = chrootRootDir + settings.nixStore;
@@ -1863,28 +1861,7 @@ void DerivationGoal::startBuilder()
             throw SysError(format("cannot change ownership of ‘%1%’") % chrootStoreDir);
 
         foreach (PathSet::iterator, i, inputPaths) {
-            struct stat st;
-            if (lstat(i->c_str(), &st))
-                throw SysError(format("getting attributes of path `%1%'") % *i);
-            if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode))
-                dirsInChroot[*i] = *i;
-            else {
-                Path p = chrootRootDir + *i;
-                if (link(i->c_str(), p.c_str()) == -1) {
-                    /* Hard-linking fails if we exceed the maximum
-                       link count on a file (e.g. 32000 of ext3),
-                       which is quite possible after a `nix-store
-                       --optimise'. */
-                    if (errno != EMLINK)
-                        throw SysError(format("linking `%1%' to `%2%'") % p % *i);
-                    StringSink sink;
-                    dumpPath(*i, sink);
-                    StringSource source(sink.s);
-                    restorePath(p, source);
-                }
-
-                regularInputPaths.insert(*i);
-            }
+	    dirsInChroot[*i] = *i;
         }
 
         /* If we're repairing, checking or rebuilding part of a
-- 
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