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journald: correctly attribute log messages also with cgroupsv1
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With cgroupsv1 a zombie process is migrated to root cgroup in all
hierarchies. This was changed for unified hierarchy and /proc/PID/cgroup
reports cgroup to which process belonged before it exited.

Be more suspicious about cgroup path reported by the kernel and use
unit_id provided by the log client if the kernel reports that process is
running in the root cgroup.

Users tend to care the most about 'log->unit_id' mapping so systemctl
status can correctly report last log lines. Also we wouldn't be able to
infer anything useful from "/" path anyway.

See: torvalds/linux@2e91fa7
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msekletar authored and poettering committed Dec 17, 2018
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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions src/journal/journald-context.c
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#include "journal-util.h"
#include "journald-context.h"
#include "parse-util.h"
#include "path-util.h"
#include "process-util.h"
#include "string-util.h"
#include "syslog-util.h"
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/* Try to acquire the current cgroup path */
r = cg_pid_get_path_shifted(c->pid, s->cgroup_root, &t);
if (r < 0) {
if (r < 0 || empty_or_root(t)) {

/* If that didn't work, we use the unit ID passed in as fallback, if we have nothing cached yet */
/* We use the unit ID passed in as fallback if we have nothing cached yet and cg_pid_get_path_shifted()
* failed or process is running in a root cgroup. Zombie processes are automatically migrated to root cgroup
* on cgroupsv1 and we want to be able to map log messages from them too. */
if (unit_id && !c->unit) {
c->unit = strdup(unit_id);
if (c->unit)
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