From 9ba5d8811630a3d2af90fdc52f4fd6b03ee9e692 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 19:26:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] core: unset HOME=/ that the kernel gives us

Partially fixes #12389.

%h would return "/" in a machine, but "/root" in a container. Let's fix
this by resetting $HOME to the expected value.

(cherry picked from commit 9d48671c62de133a2b9fe7c31e70c0ff8e68f2db)

Resolves: #2056527
---
 src/core/main.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/core/main.c b/src/core/main.c
index d897155644..08a4df3c97 100644
--- a/src/core/main.c
+++ b/src/core/main.c
@@ -1307,6 +1307,11 @@ static int fixup_environment(void) {
         if (setenv("TERM", t, 1) < 0)
                 return -errno;
 
+        /* The kernels sets HOME=/ for init. Let's undo this. */
+        if (path_equal_ptr(getenv("HOME"), "/") &&
+            unsetenv("HOME") < 0)
+                log_warning_errno(errno, "Failed to unset $HOME: %m");
+
         return 0;
 }