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nixos/stage-1.init.sh: Prevent unsafe remount and correct fstab syntax #358035

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Description

The legacy stage-1 generates the /etc/fstab from fsInfo but incorrectly adds a trailing , character to the mount options. While does not appear to have caused any issue yet we should trim the trailing , to be safe.

Generated /etc/fstab during stage-1:

tmpfs /mnt-root tmpfs mode=0755,

stage-1 also currently remounts all fileSystems as a fix for busybox not respecting mount options on bind (and rbind) mount points. This results in a unintended errors during stage-1 if a file system such as NFS is mounted which does allow remounting with all of the original options present (i.e some options can only be set during the initial mount).

Error during stage-1 mounting NFS share:

mount: mounting server.example.test:/nix/store on /mnt-root/nix/.ro-store failed: Invalid argument

Things done

Built and ran legacyPackages.x86_64-linux.nixosTests.early-mount-options.

  • Built on platform(s)
    • [] x86_64-linux
    • aarch64-linux
    • x86_64-darwin
    • aarch64-darwin
  • For non-Linux: Is sandboxing enabled in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
    • sandbox = relaxed
    • sandbox = true
  • Tested, as applicable:
  • Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
  • Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • 24.05 Release Notes (or backporting 23.05 and 23.11 Release notes)
    • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
    • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
    • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

We should not remount all filesystem types since not all filesystems
are safe to remount and some (nfs) return errors if remounted with
certain mount options.
@github-actions github-actions bot added 6.topic: nixos Issues or PRs affecting NixOS modules, or package usability issues specific to NixOS 8.has: module (update) This PR changes an existing module in `nixos/` labels Nov 22, 2024
@Princemachiavelli Princemachiavelli marked this pull request as ready for review November 22, 2024 02:08
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