[YARN-5121] fix some container-executor portability issues

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha1
• Fix Version/s: 2.8.0, 2.7.4, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Component/s: nodemanager, security
• Labels: CVE security
• Target Version/s: 2.7.4, 3.0.0-alpha2
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Allen Wittenauer
• Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
• Created: 21/May/16 01:40
• Updated: 15/May/18 17:37
• Resolved: 30/Jul/16 15:32

Description

container-executor has some issues that are preventing it from even compiling on the OS X jenkins instance. Let's fix those. While we're there, let's also try to take care of some of the other portability problems that have crept in over the years, since it used to work great on Solaris but now doesn't.

This issue fixes CVE-2016-6811.

Issue Links

• contains: YARN-3876 get_executable() assumes everything is Linux
• is related to: YARN-6698 Backport YARN-5121 to branch-2.7
• is required by: YARN-5456 container-executor support for FreeBSD, NetBSD, and others if conf path is absolute
• relates to: APEXCORE-815 Whitelist CVE-2016-6811