support hosts without /etc/hosts

Fixes: containers#12667
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <rothberg@redhat.com>

libpod/container_internal_linux.go

@@ -1735,11 +1735,9 @@ func (c *Container) makeBindMounts() error {
 			}
 
 			if !c.config.UseImageHosts {
-				newHosts, err := c.generateHosts("/etc/hosts")
-				if err != nil {
+				if err := c.updateHosts("/etc/hosts"); err != nil {
 					return errors.Wrapf(err, "error creating hosts file for container %s", c.ID())
 				}
-				c.state.BindMounts["/etc/hosts"] = newHosts
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -1756,11 +1754,9 @@ func (c *Container) makeBindMounts() error {
 		}
 	} else {
 		if !c.config.UseImageHosts && c.state.BindMounts["/etc/hosts"] == "" {
-			newHosts, err := c.generateHosts("/etc/hosts")
-			if err != nil {
+			if err := c.updateHosts("/etc/hosts"); err != nil {
 				return errors.Wrapf(err, "error creating hosts file for container %s", c.ID())
 			}
-			c.state.BindMounts["/etc/hosts"] = newHosts
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -2048,18 +2044,26 @@ func (c *Container) generateResolvConf() (string, error) {
 	return destPath, nil
 }
 
-// generateHosts creates a containers hosts file
-func (c *Container) generateHosts(path string) (string, error) {
+// updateHosts updates the container's hosts file
+func (c *Container) updateHosts(path string) error {
 	orig, err := ioutil.ReadFile(path)
 	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
+		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			return nil
+		}
+		return err
 	}
 	hosts := string(orig)
 	hosts += c.getHosts()
 
 	hosts = c.appendLocalhost(hosts)
 
-	return c.writeStringToRundir("hosts", hosts)
+	newHosts, err := c.writeStringToRundir("hosts", hosts)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	c.state.BindMounts["/etc/hosts"] = newHosts
+	return nil
 }
 
 // based on networking mode we may want to append the localhost

test/system/030-run.bats

@@ -756,4 +756,13 @@ EOF
     is "$output" ".*TERM=abc" "missing TERM environment variable despite TERM being set on commandline"
 }
 
+@test "podman run - no /etc/hosts" {
+    skip_if_rootless "cannot move /etc/hosts file as a rootless user"
+    tmpfile=$PODMAN_TMPDIR/hosts
+    mv /etc/hosts $tmpfile
+    run_podman '?' run --rm $IMAGE true
+    mv $tmpfile /etc/hosts
+    is "$status" 0 "podman run without /etc/hosts file should work"
+}
+
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