Merge pull request #11353 from flouthoc/resolve-workdir-after-mounts

container: resolve workdir during initialization after all the mounts are completed.

libpod/container_internal.go

@@ -1072,6 +1072,11 @@ func (c *Container) init(ctx context.Context, retainRetries bool) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	// Make sure the workdir exists while initializing container
+	if err := c.resolveWorkDir(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
 	// Save the OCI newSpec to disk
 	if err := c.saveSpec(newSpec); err != nil {
 		return err

libpod/container_internal_linux.go

@@ -176,11 +176,6 @@ func (c *Container) prepare() error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	// Make sure the workdir exists
-	if err := c.resolveWorkDir(); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
 	return nil
 }
 

test/e2e/run_volume_test.go

@@ -222,6 +222,26 @@ var _ = Describe("Podman run with volumes", func() {
 		Expect(matches[0]).To(Not(ContainSubstring("nosuid")))
 	})
 
+	// Container should start when workdir is overlayed volume
+	It("podman run with volume mounted as overlay and used as workdir", func() {
+		SkipIfRemote("Overlay volumes only work locally")
+		if os.Getenv("container") != "" {
+			Skip("Overlay mounts not supported when running in a container")
+		}
+		if rootless.IsRootless() {
+			if _, err := exec.LookPath("fuse-overlayfs"); err != nil {
+				Skip("Fuse-Overlayfs required for rootless overlay mount test")
+			}
+		}
+		mountPath := filepath.Join(podmanTest.TempDir, "secrets")
+		os.Mkdir(mountPath, 0755)
+
+		//Container should be able to start with custom overlayed volume
+		session := podmanTest.Podman([]string{"run", "--rm", "-v", mountPath + ":/data:O", "--workdir=/data", ALPINE, "echo", "hello"})
+		session.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()
+		Expect(session).Should(Exit(0))
+	})
+
 	It("podman run with noexec can't exec", func() {
 		session := podmanTest.Podman([]string{"run", "--rm", "-v", "/bin:/hostbin:noexec", ALPINE, "/hostbin/ls", "/"})
 		session.WaitWithDefaultTimeout()