Find the caller of the Bash startup check the way /proc numbers it

The check read /proc/$$/cmdline. arch-chroot runs its command in a new PID
namespace beneath the outer /proc, where $$ names no process or someone
else's, so every bash -p entrypoint was rejected there with status 126.

The installer met this as soon as one was called at install time:
install/config/thunderbolt-authorization.sh runs
omarchy-thunderbolt-authorization-admin, and the edge ISO stopped in
"Configuring system" with "/proc/219/cmdline: No such file or directory".

The check runs in a child of the caller, so read the parent from that
child's /proc/self/stat, which is given in the numbering of the /proc it is
read through. Outside a PID namespace that is $$, as before.
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Emir Beganovic committed 2026-10-10 02:48:26 +02:00
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omarchy_security_require_privileged_bash_startup() {
[[ $- == *p* ]] || return 1
# The caller is this check's parent, under the number this /proc gives it.
# arch-chroot runs the installer in a new PID namespace beneath the outer
# /proc, where $$ names no process, or someone else's.
/usr/bin/env -i /usr/bin/bash -p -c '
mapfile -d "" -t argv <"/proc/$1/cmdline" || exit 1
executable=$(/usr/bin/readlink -e -- "/proc/$1/exe") || exit 1
stat=$(</proc/self/stat) || exit 1
read -r _ caller _ <<<"${stat##*) }"
mapfile -d "" -t argv <"/proc/$caller/cmdline" || exit 1
executable=$(/usr/bin/readlink -e -- "/proc/$caller/exe") || exit 1
[[ $executable == "/usr/bin/bash" &&
( ${argv[0]:-} == "/bin/bash" || ${argv[0]:-} == "/usr/bin/bash" ) &&
${argv[1]:-} == "-p" ]]
' omarchy-bash-startup "$$"
' omarchy-bash-startup
}
omarchy_security_sanitize_bash_environment() {
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
source "$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/base-test.sh"
test_tmp=$(mktemp -d)
trap 'rm -rf "$test_tmp"' EXIT
cat >"$test_tmp/entrypoint" <<SH
#!/bin/bash -p
source "$ROOT/bin/omarchy-security-functions"
omarchy_security_require_privileged_bash_startup
SH
chmod +x "$test_tmp/entrypoint"
"$test_tmp/entrypoint" || fail "a script started as bash -p passes the startup check"
( "$test_tmp/entrypoint" ) || fail "the startup check passes from a subshell"
pass "a script started as bash -p passes the startup check"
if /usr/bin/bash -c "set -p; source '$ROOT/bin/omarchy-security-functions'; omarchy_security_require_privileged_bash_startup"; then
fail "bash that only turned -p on later is rejected"
fi
if /usr/bin/bash "$test_tmp/entrypoint"; then
fail "a script not started with -p is rejected"
fi
pass "bash not started with -p is rejected"
# arch-chroot runs the installer in a new PID namespace under the outer /proc,
# so the caller's own PID is not the number /proc knows it by.
in_new_pid_namespace=(unshare --user --map-root-user --fork --pid)
if "${in_new_pid_namespace[@]}" /usr/bin/true 2>/dev/null; then
"${in_new_pid_namespace[@]}" /usr/bin/bash -c "for i in {1..50}; do /usr/bin/true; done; '$test_tmp/entrypoint'; exit" </dev/null ||
fail "the startup check passes in a new PID namespace under the outer /proc"
if "${in_new_pid_namespace[@]}" /usr/bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/bash '$test_tmp/entrypoint'; exit" </dev/null; then
fail "a script not started with -p is rejected in a new PID namespace"
fi
pass "the startup check sees its caller in a new PID namespace, as under arch-chroot"
else
skip "a new PID namespace needs unprivileged user namespaces"
fi