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fakeroot has become extremely slow inside docker #45436

@bwoodsend

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@bwoodsend

Description

Entering a fakeroot inside a container used to be instant but now takes about a minute.

Reproduce

docker run -it --rm alpine
apk add fakeroot
fakeroot 

Expected behavior

The original behaviour - fakeroot being quick.

docker version

Client:
 Version:           23.0.3
 API version:       1.42
 Go version:        go1.20.2
 Git commit:        3e7cbfdee1
 Built:             Wed Apr  5 13:17:36 2023
 OS/Arch:           linux/amd64
 Context:           default

Server:
 Engine:
  Version:          23.0.1
  API version:      1.42 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.20
  Git commit:       bc3805a0a0
  Built:            Sat Feb 11 13:58:04 2023
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          v1.7.0
  GitCommit:        1fbd70374134b891f97ce19c70b6e50c7b9f4e0d.m
 runc:
  Version:          1.1.5
  GitCommit:        
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

docker info

Client:
 Context:    default
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
  buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  0.10.4
    Path:     /usr/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx

Server:
 Containers: 95
  Running: 4
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 91
 Images: 125
 Server Version: 23.0.1
 Storage Driver: overlay2
  Backing Filesystem: extfs
  Supports d_type: true
  Using metacopy: true
  Native Overlay Diff: false
  userxattr: false
 Logging Driver: json-file
 Cgroup Driver: systemd
 Cgroup Version: 2
 Plugins:
  Volume: local
  Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
  Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local logentries splunk syslog
 Swarm: inactive
 Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 runc
 Default Runtime: runc
 Init Binary: docker-init
 containerd version: 1fbd70374134b891f97ce19c70b6e50c7b9f4e0d.m
 runc version: 
 init version: de40ad0
 Security Options:
  seccomp
   Profile: builtin
  cgroupns
 Kernel Version: 6.2.9-1-MANJARO
 Operating System: Manjaro Linux
 OSType: linux
 Architecture: x86_64
 CPUs: 8
 Total Memory: 7.495GiB
 Name: manjaro-2212
 ID: HBWP:AGRX:MHCB:XEVM:37M2:Z4PF:37RF:GDXA:7KP4:DERV:2JNI:XGKR
 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
 Debug Mode: false
 Registry: https://index.docker.io/v1/
 Experimental: false
 Insecure Registries:
  127.0.0.0/8
 Live Restore Enabled: false

Additional Info

Can also be reproduced on Fedora. Can't be reproduced with podman which is why I suspect a docker regression rather than a fakeroot one.

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