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What this PR does / why we need it:

In HAMi, GPU memory and compute isolation are currently configured via environment variables (CUDA_DEVICE_MEMORY_LIMIT_*, CUDA_DEVICE_SM_LIMIT, and CUDA_DEVICE_MEMORY_SHARED_CACHE) injected by the device plugin during Allocate.

However, when child processes, su/sudo sessions, or SSH login shells start within a container, PAM and shell runtimes scrub process environment variables. Consequently, libvgpu.so (preloaded via /etc/ld.so.preload) cannot find the memory limits via getenv() and falls back to unconstrained GPU access.

This PR introduces a file-based configuration mechanism to persist container allocation limits to disk:

  1. New Package: Adds pkg/device-plugin/nvidiadevice/nvinternal/plugin/containerconfig defining ContainerConfig, DeviceLimitConfig, and an atomic WriteConfig helper (using temp-file + intra-directory rename with mode 0644).
  2. Device Plugin Integration: Updates Allocate in server.go to write config.json into the container's cache directory (cacheFileHostDirectory), which is already bind-mounted to {hostHookPath}/vgpu/ inside the container.
  3. Backward Compatibility: Preserves all existing environment variable injection so existing libvgpu.so binaries continue to work unchanged.
  4. Unit Tests: Adds unit test suite in config_test.go covering JSON serialization, file permissions, idempotency, and error handling.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Fixes #2125

Special notes for your reviewer:

  • Writing to cacheFileHostDirectory makes config.json available inside the container at {hostHookPath}/vgpu/config.json via the existing container volume mount (no new mounts required).
  • The file is written with mode 0644 so both root and non-root users (e.g., unprivileged SSH logins) can read the configuration file without EACCES errors.
  • The corresponding reader logic in libvgpu.so (HAMi-core) can now fall back to reading {hostHookPath}/vgpu/config.json when getenv("CUDA_DEVICE_MEMORY_LIMIT_...") returns empty.

Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?:

Persist container GPU allocation limits to config.json in the container vGPU directory to support GPU memory isolation for SSH and child processes.


<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
  - GPU allocations now provide persistent per-container configuration with device limits and runtime settings.
  - Configuration includes memory, compute, oversubscription, caching, and logging options.
  - Persistent configuration is exposed through a read-only mount while shared caching remains available.
  - Environment-based and persistent settings remain consistent.

- **Reliability Improvements**
  - Configuration updates are written safely to prevent incomplete files.
  - File permissions are applied consistently for dependable access.
  - Allocation continues with existing enforcement if persistent configuration cannot be created.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

…d SSH processes

Write a persistent config.json into the container cache directory during
Allocate to ensure GPU memory isolation is retained across child processes,
su/sudo sessions, and SSH login shells where process environment variables
are scrubbed.

- Add pkg/device-plugin/nvidiadevice/nvinternal/plugin/containerconfig package
  defining ContainerConfig, DeviceLimitConfig, and atomic WriteConfig helper.
- Update Allocate in server.go to write config.json into cacheFileHostDirectory.
- Preserve all existing environment variable injection for full backward compatibility.
- Add comprehensive unit tests covering serialization, atomic write, and error cases.

Fixes Project-HAMi#2125

Signed-off-by: Sanyam Rana <sanyamrana26@gmail.com>
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The change adds a versioned GPU container configuration schema and an atomic JSON writer. Allocate persists device limits and runtime settings, mounts the configuration read-only, and retains environment-based enforcement.

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GPU container configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration contract and atomic writer
pkg/device-plugin/nvidiadevice/nvinternal/plugin/containerconfig/config.go, pkg/device-plugin/nvidiadevice/nvinternal/plugin/containerconfig/config_test.go, pkg/device-plugin/nvidiadevice/nvinternal/plugin/containerconfig/config_posix_test.go
Added configuration schemas, JSON serialization, atomic config.json writes, and tests for content, permissions, overwrites, missing directories, restrictive umasks, and Oversubscribe.
Allocation-time configuration generation
pkg/device-plugin/nvidiadevice/nvinternal/plugin/server.go
Allocate collects device limits and runtime settings, writes per-container configuration, mounts it read-only, and logs configuration failures without failing allocation.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 56987

The PR adds a POSIX-specific test that may fail to compile on non-POSIX build targets, so the change is not fully merge-ready until the test is properly constrained or the platform limitation is explicitly accepted.

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  participant Allocate
  participant WriteConfig
  participant ContainerFilesystem
  Allocate->>WriteConfig: pass device limits and runtime settings
  WriteConfig->>ContainerFilesystem: atomically write config.json
  ContainerFilesystem-->>WriteConfig: return write result
  WriteConfig-->>Allocate: return success or error
  Allocate-->>Allocate: log warning on configuration failure
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A rabbit packs limits in JSON,
Then mounts the file read-only at dawn.
Cache paths stay clear,
Device rules appear,
And allocation hops along.

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR writes and mounts config.json but does not show consumers reading it or tests proving limits in child and SSH shells, leaving issue #2125 incomplete. Implement config.json consumption with the documented fallback, then add child-process and SSH regression tests plus required user documentation.
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In `@pkg/device-plugin/nvidiadevice/nvinternal/plugin/containerconfig/config.go`:
- Around line 126-128: After os.WriteFile in the temporary container-config
creation flow, explicitly apply mode 0644 with os.Chmod and return a wrapped
error if it fails before os.Rename executes. Add a POSIX test covering a
restrictive umask and verifying the resulting config.json remains readable with
mode 0644.

In `@pkg/device-plugin/nvidiadevice/nvinternal/plugin/server.go`:
- Around line 893-899: Change the config.json handling around
containerconfig.WriteConfig so it writes to a root-owned host path outside the
mode-0777 cacheFileHostDirectory. Mount that file at
${hostHookPath}/vgpu/config.json with ReadOnly enabled, while retaining
cacheFileHostDirectory as the separate read-write mount.
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In WriteConfig, after os.WriteFile, explicitly apply mode 0644 with os.Chmod
to ensure config.json remains readable by unprivileged container users even
when the device plugin daemon runs under a restrictive process umask (e.g. 0077).

- Explicitly call os.Chmod(tmpPath, 0644) and return wrapped error on failure.
- Add TestWriteConfig_RestrictiveUmask in config_posix_test.go covering umask 0077.

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cacheFileHostDirectory is mode 0777 and is mounted read-write into the
container. Writing config.json there allowed a root container process to
remove or replace it (e.g. symlink to /dev/null), silently defeating its
own GPU memory limits.

Move config.json to a separate root-owned host directory (mode 0755) under
{hostHookPath}/vgpu/configs/{podUID}_{containerName}/ and bind-mount it
into the container as a read-only file at {hostHookPath}/vgpu/config.json.
The read-write cacheFileHostDirectory mount is retained unchanged for the
libvgpu.so shared-memory cache files it needs to create at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Sanyam Rana <sanyamrana26@gmail.com>
Change //go:build !windows to //go:build unix on config_posix_test.go.
The !windows constraint would include Plan 9, JS/WASM, and other non-Unix
targets that lack syscall.Umask, causing build failures there. The unix
constraint precisely targets Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and other POSIX systems
where the test semantics are guaranteed.

Signed-off-by: Sanyam Rana <sanyamrana26@gmail.com>
Add an explicit lookup-order contract to the ContainerConfig Go doc
comment so the libvgpu.so consumer implementer has the agreed policy
at the call site without needing to trace the issue discussion:

  1. env var present  -> use env var  (highest priority, backward compat)
  2. env var absent   -> read config.json field  (SSH/su fallback)
  3. both absent      -> no limit  (unchanged current behavior)

Also documents that a missing/unreadable config.json must be treated as
case (3) silently, never as a hard error.

Follows up on the design discussion in Project-HAMi#2125.

Signed-off-by: Sanyam Rana <sanyamrana26@gmail.com>
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