The find_mount_point function does not resolve the mount point of paths with a soft-link correctly and returns the wrong mount-point.
I have mounted an NFS filesystem on /nfs-mount. This directory contains a directory called "directory". I also created a soft-link to this last directory: /soft-link-to-directory -> /nfs-mount/directory. I created the following task to copy a file into /soft-link-to-directory:
- name: copy file to nfs-mount
copy:
src: "file"
dest: "/soft-link-to-directory/file"
This throws an exception:
invalid selinux context: [Errno 95] Operation not supported
This is caused by the find_mount_point function to return '/' as the mount point for '/soft-link-to-directory/file'. This should have been /nfs-mount. Because the find_mount_point returns the wrong mount-point, the is_special_selinux_path function does not recognise the file is on an NFS mount and tries to set the default SELinux context (system_u:object_r:default_t:s0), which fails. The context should have been: system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0
Full Ansible output:
TASK [copy file to nfs-mount] **************************************************
fatal: [hostname]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "checksum": "f34b60930a5d6d689cf49a4c16bd7f9806be608c", "cur_context": ["system_u", "object_r", "nfs_t", "s0"], "failed": true, "gid": 24170, "group": "foundation", "input_was": ["system_u", "object_r", "default_t", "s0"], "mode": "0644", "msg": "invalid selinux context: [Errno 95] Operation not supported", "new_context": ["system_u", "object_r", "default_t", "s0"], "owner": "root", "path": "/soft-link-to-directory/.ansible_tmpWCT6Z4file", "secontext": "system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0", "size": 37, "state": "file", "uid": 0}
(cherry picked from commit 23349911f1)
Again, as we're carrying failed/unreachable hosts forward from play to play via
internal structures, we need to remember which ones had previously failed so that
unrelated host failures don't inflate the numbers for a given serial batch in the
PlaybookExecutor causing a premature exit.
Fixes#16364
(cherry picked from commit 4c1601e9f2)
When the PYTHONPATH is an empty string python will treat it as though
the cwd is in the PYTHONPATH. This can be undesirable. So make sure we
delete PYTHONPATH from the environment altgether in this case.
Fixes#16195
Due to the fact that roles may be instantiated with different sets of
params (multiple inclusions of the same role or via role dependencies),
simply tracking notified handlers by name does not work. This patch
changes the way we track handler notifications by using the handler
object itself instead of just the name, allowing for multiple internal
instances. Normally this would be bad, but we also modify the way we
search for handlers by first looking at the notifying tasks dependency
chain (ensuring that roles find their own handlers first) and then at
the main list of handlers, using the first match it finds.
This patch also modifies the way we setup the internal list of handlers,
which should allow us to correctly identify if a notified handler exists
more easily.
Fixes#15084
Symlinks inside of the chroot were failng because we weren't able to
determine if they were pointing to a real file or not. We could write
some complicated code to walk the symlink path taking into account where
the root of the tree is but that could be fragile. Since this is just
a sanity check, instead we just assume that the chroot is fine if we
find that /bin/sh in the chroot is a symlink. Can revisit if it turns
out that many chroots have a /bin/sh that's a broken symlink.
Fixes#16097
The junos network module will now properly use the ssh key file if its
passed from the playbook to authenticate to the remote device. Prior
to this commit, the ssh keyfile was ignored.
When setuptools installs a python module (as is done via python setup.py
install) It puts the module into a subdirectory of site-packages and
then creates an entry in easy-install.pth to load that directory. This
makes it difficult for Ansiballz to function correctly as the .pth file
overrides the sys.path that the wrapper constructs. Using
sitecustomize.py fixes this because sitecustomize overrides the
directories handled in .pth files.
Fixes#16187
* Fix: create retry_files_save_path if it doesn't exist
Ansible documentation states that retry_files_save_path directory will be
created if it does not already exist. It currently doesn't, so this patch
fixes it :)
* Use makedirs_safe to ensure thread-safe dir creation
@bcoca suggested to use the makedirs_safe helper function :)
(cherry picked from commit 828b73dd2d)
The changes to exclude implicit localhosts from group patterns exposed
the bug that we sometimes create multiple implicit localhosts, which
caused some bugs with things like includes, where the host was used as
an entry into a dict, so having multiple meant that the incorrect host
(with a different uuid) was found and includes were not executed for
implicit localhosts.
This allows the PlaybookExecutor to receive more information regarding
what happened internal to the TaskQueueManager and strategy, to determine
things like whether or not the play iteration should stop.
Fixes#15523
(cherry picked from commit fbec2d9692)
The nxos cli provider would not properly handle ssh key files passed
from the playbook task. The ssh_keyfile argument is now properly
passed to the ssh authentication method
This fix address the bug reported in #3862
Also updates doc on variable precedence, as it was incorrect for the
order of play vars/vars_prompt/vars_files in relation to set_fact and
registered variables.
Fixes#14702Fixes#14826
