remote: exec inspect update exec session status

The remote API will wait 300s by default before conmon will call the
cleanup. In the meantime when you inspect an exec session started with
ExecStart() (so not attached) and it did exit we do not know that. If
a caller inspects it they think it is still running. To prevent this we
should sync the session based on the exec pid and update the state
accordingly.

For a reproducer see the test in this commit or the issue.

Fixes #18424

Signed-off-by: Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>

libpod/container.go

@@ -893,6 +893,17 @@ func (c *Container) execSessionNoCopy(id string) (*ExecSession, error) {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("no exec session with ID %s found in container %s: %w", id, c.ID(), define.ErrNoSuchExecSession)
 	}
 
+	// make sure to update the exec session if needed #18424
+	alive, err := c.ociRuntime.ExecUpdateStatus(c, id)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if !alive {
+		if err := retrieveAndWriteExecExitCode(c, session.ID()); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+
 	return session, nil
 }
 

pkg/bindings/test/exec_test.go

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ var _ = Describe("Podman containers exec", func() {
 		bt.cleanup()
 	})
 
-	It("Podman exec create makes an exec session", func() {
+	It("Podman exec create+start makes an exec session", func() {
 		name := "testCtr"
 		cid, err := bt.RunTopContainer(&name, nil)
 		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ var _ = Describe("Podman containers exec", func() {
 		Expect(inspectOut.ProcessConfig.Entrypoint).To(Equal("echo"))
 		Expect(inspectOut.ProcessConfig.Arguments).To(HaveLen(1))
 		Expect(inspectOut.ProcessConfig.Arguments[0]).To(Equal("hello world"))
+
+		err = containers.ExecStart(bt.conn, sessionID, nil)
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+
+		inspectOut, err = containers.ExecInspect(bt.conn, sessionID, nil)
+		Expect(err).ToNot(HaveOccurred())
+		Expect(inspectOut.ContainerID).To(Equal(cid))
+		Expect(inspectOut.Running).To(BeFalse(), "session should not be running")
+		Expect(inspectOut.ExitCode).To(Equal(0), "exit code from echo")
 	})
 
 	It("Podman exec create with bad command fails", func() {