Segmentation fault in JNA library due to non-existent home directory for elasticsearch user

[yuriysklyarenko]

Describe the feature:

There is an issue on some CentOS 7 boxes with ElasticSearch 7.X - the service fails with SIGSEGV error in the JNA (libffi) library (which tries to create '.cache/JNA/temp/' in the user home) and the possible solution is to create a 'real' home folder for 'elasticsearch' user (for example specify es_data_dirs like /var/lib/elasticsearch or es_tmp_dir), however 'createhome: no' is hardcoded in the role.

Please check the following thread: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/18272#issuecomment-294321118

Elasticsearch version

7.X (tested on 7.10.2, 7.12.1)

Role version:

7.12.1

JVM version (java -version): any

OS version (uname -a if on a Unix-like system): CentOS 7.X.

ES Logs if relevant:

Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: #
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: #  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007f9d2459c152, pid=17937, tid=18108
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: #
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: # JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment AdoptOpenJDK (16.0+36) (build 16+36)
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: # Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM AdoptOpenJDK (16+36, mixed mode, sharing, tiered, compressed oops, g1 gc, linux-amd64)
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: # Problematic frame:
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: # C  [jna16833394168063319439.tmp+0x13152]  ffi_prep_closure_loc+0x32
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: #
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: # No core dump will be written. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: #
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: # An error report file with more information is saved as:
Jul 29 07:48:03 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: # /var/log/elasticsearch/hs_err_pid17937.log
Jul 29 07:48:04 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: #
Jul 29 07:48:04 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
Jul 29 07:48:04 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: #   https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK/openjdk-support/issues
Jul 29 07:48:04 856405-db1 systemd-entrypoint: # The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.

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