[PATCH 1/2] testsuite: Support cleanup on rootless build files in test-container

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Zhihang Wei

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Jul 16, 2026, 8:40:20 AM (9 days ago) Jul 16
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When running tests with rootless builds, some files created with the user
namespace inside the container cannot be removed by the calling user after
the test-container exits without sudo. Add the `--clean-rootless-files`
option to the test-container entrypoint to clean up such files before
leaving the container.

The cleanup is only performed for rootless builds and only removes files
that cannot be cleaned up without sudo outside the container. Other build
artifacts are left untouched so they remain available for CI artifact
collection and post-test inspection.

Signed-off-by: Zhihang Wei <w...@ilbers.de>
---
.../dockerdata/test-container-entrypoint | 38 +++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/testsuite/dockerdata/test-container-entrypoint b/testsuite/dockerdata/test-container-entrypoint
index e4714942..9bddbb18 100755
--- a/testsuite/dockerdata/test-container-entrypoint
+++ b/testsuite/dockerdata/test-container-entrypoint
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ else
shift 1
fi

+clean_rootless_files=0
+
export args="--max-parallel-tasks=1 --disable-sysinfo"
for arg in $*; do
case "$arg" in
@@ -29,15 +31,19 @@ for arg in $*; do
--shell)
export start_shell=1
;;
+ --clean-rootless-files)
+ clean_rootless_files=1
+ ;;
--help)
cat <<EOF
Usage: run-tests.sh [params] ...

Supported parameters:
- --clean Purge results of previous test runs before starting.
- --debug Use '--show=app,test' log settings for avocado.
- --shell Drop into shell rather than starting tests.
- --help Show this help message.
+ --clean Purge results of previous test runs before starting.
+ --debug Use '--show=app,test' log settings for avocado.
+ --shell Drop into shell rather than starting tests.
+ --clean-rootless-files Clean up files created by rootless builds with unshare after the tests finish.
+ --help Show this help message.

Any other parameters are passed to "avocado run". Its usage is:

@@ -59,6 +65,15 @@ case "$args" in
;;
esac

+case "$args" in
+ *"-p rootless=1"*)
+ ;;
+ *)
+ clean_rootless_files=0
+ ;;
+esac
+export clean_rootless_files
+
mkdir /isar

busybox syslogd
@@ -72,6 +87,21 @@ echo exit | /container-entrypoint
gosu builder sh -c '
set -e

+cleanup_rootless_files()
+{
+ rc=$?
+
+ if [ "${clean_rootless_files}" = 1 ]; then
+ find build \
+ \( ! -user "$(whoami)" -type d -prune \) \
+ -exec unshare --map-auto --map-root-user --keep-caps rm -rf {} \;
+ fi
+
+ exit ${rc}
+}
+
+trap cleanup_rootless_files EXIT
+
base_dir=/work/build/testsuite

mkdir -p ${base_dir}/overlay/upper
--
2.39.5

Zhihang Wei

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Jul 16, 2026, 8:40:21 AM (9 days ago) Jul 16
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Add a GitLab CI pipeline to test rootless builds.

The pipeline reuses the existing test-container and is intended to run on
a rootless shell runner.

Signed-off-by: Zhihang Wei <w...@ilbers.de>
---
.gitlab-ci.yml | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 41 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 0711f200..c880663b 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -34,6 +34,36 @@ variables:
when: always
expire_in: 1 week

+.rootless-build: &rootless-build
+ stage: build
+ variables:
+ RUNNER_AFTER_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT: 15m
+ before_script:
+ - export http_proxy=$HTTP_PROXY
+ - export https_proxy=$HTTPS_PROXY
+ - export ftp_proxy=$FTP_PROXY
+ - export no_proxy=$NO_PROXY
+ - export DISTRO_APT_PREMIRRORS=$DISTRO_APT_PREMIRRORS
+ after_script:
+ - |
+ if [[ -n "${SSTATE_LOCATION}" ]] && [[ -d "sstate-cache" ]]; then
+ echo "=== Upload sstate artifacts to ${SSTATE_LOCATION} ==="
+ ./scripts/isar-sstate --filter '^(?!isar-image-)' upload "sstate-cache" "${SSTATE_LOCATION}"
+ ./scripts/isar-sstate info -v "${SSTATE_LOCATION}"
+ fi
+
+ artifacts:
+ name: "logs-$CI_JOB_ID"
+ paths:
+ - build/testsuite/tmp*/work/*/*/*/temp
+ - build/testsuite/job-results
+ - build/testsuite/vm_start
+ reports:
+ junit:
+ - build/testsuite/job-results/job*/results.xml
+ when: always
+ expire_in: 1 week
+

.test-container: &test-container
image: ghcr.io/ilbers/isar/test-container:1
@@ -113,6 +143,17 @@ full-ci-isar:
script:
- scripts/ci_build.sh --sstate 1 -T full

+
+dev-rootless-ci:
+ tags:
+ - shell-rootless
+ <<: *rootless-build
+ rules:
+ - if: $TESTSUITE == 'dev-rootless' || $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE != 'schedule'
+ script:
+ - scripts/run-tests.sh --debug --clean-rootless-files testsuite/citest.py:test_dev$ -p rootless=1
+
+
sstate-cache-info:
stage: build
when: manual
--
2.39.5

MOESSBAUER, Felix

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Jul 16, 2026, 8:47:33 AM (9 days ago) Jul 16
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We can reuse the ./scripts/isar-clean-builddir script which was written
exactly for cleaning up the leftover files.

Apart from that, the change is fine.

Felix

> + fi
> +
> + exit ${rc}
> +}
> +
> +trap cleanup_rootless_files EXIT
> +
> base_dir=/work/build/testsuite
>
> mkdir -p ${base_dir}/overlay/upper
> --
> 2.39.5
>

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Zhihang Wei

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Jul 16, 2026, 9:06:39 AM (9 days ago) Jul 16
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Hi Felix,

This part was borrowed from your isar-clean-builddir script. But here I want
to keep the logs and build artifacts.

Thinking about it more: the files with different ownership are only in
rootfs
dirs. Maybe I can reuse the script to clean up rootfs only. Let me try.

v8 unprivileged is on CI, we'll merge once it passes.

Zhihang

MOESSBAUER, Felix

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Jul 16, 2026, 9:29:17 AM (9 days ago) Jul 16
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Makes sense. I'm wondering if we better just call that script instead
of the rm -rf {}:

find ... -exec ./scripts/isar-clean-builddir {} \;

The unshare mapping might change in the future (I hope not, but who
knows) and we don't want to maintain that all over the place.

>
> v8 unprivileged is on CI, we'll merge once it passes.

Sounds good. Thanks for keeping up with this.

Cheers!
Felix

Zhihang Wei

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Jul 16, 2026, 10:41:49 AM (9 days ago) Jul 16
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When running tests with rootless builds, some files created with the user
namespace inside the container cannot be removed by the calling user after
the test-container exits without sudo. Add the `--clean-rootless-files`
option to the test-container entrypoint to clean up such files before
leaving the container.

The cleanup is only performed for rootless builds and only removes files
that cannot be cleaned up without sudo outside the container. Other build
artifacts are left untouched so they remain available for CI artifact
collection and post-test inspection.

Signed-off-by: Zhihang Wei <w...@ilbers.de>
---
.../dockerdata/test-container-entrypoint | 38 +++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/testsuite/dockerdata/test-container-entrypoint b/testsuite/dockerdata/test-container-entrypoint
index e4714942..745d181b 100755
+ -exec ./scripts/isar-clean-builddir --rootless {} \;

Zhihang Wei

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Jul 16, 2026, 10:41:50 AM (9 days ago) Jul 16
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Add a GitLab CI pipeline to test rootless builds.

The pipeline reuses the existing test-container and is intended to run on
a rootless shell runner.

Signed-off-by: Zhihang Wei <w...@ilbers.de>
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