Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v3 6/6] nodedev: Work around the uevent race by hooking up virFileWaitForAccess
On 08/24/2017 07:23 AM, Erik Skultety wrote:
If we find ourselves in the situation that the 'add' uevent
has been
fired earlier than the sysfs tree for a device was created, we should
use the best-effort approach and give kernel some predetermined amount
of time, thus waiting for the attributes to be ready rather than
discarding the device from our device list forever. If those don't appear
in the given time frame, we need to move on, since libvirt can't wait
indefinitely.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463285
Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet(a)redhat.com>
---
src/node_device/node_device_udev.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
IIRC - I pointed out to you that this is eerily familiar to something
that happens in the vHBA code w/r/t to wwnn/wwpn files. Except that the
files exist, but have a -1 in them which is totally bogus. Then some
magic thing happens and the real wwnn/wwpn is placed into the file, but
libvirt already looked and failed. When I tried to work around this the
decision was to let it be and call it a kernel / udev bug.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-June/msg02213.html
and Daniel's answer
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-July/msg00912.html
Although yes, with the other changes in place one would think having a
wait is no big deal.
Still are you guaranteed that once the file exists that the data within
the file is valid? In the vHBA case it wasn't and that led to issues.
I'd "use this" processing instead of the hack I proposed as well seeing
as it doesn't seem kernel/udev fixing issues such as these is on any
priority list /-{
John
diff --git a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
index e3a647e3d..96a87f4ab 100644
--- a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
+++ b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
@@ -1166,9 +1166,23 @@ udevProcessMediatedDevice(struct udev_device *dev,
char *canonicalpath = NULL;
virNodeDevCapMdevPtr data = &def->caps->data.mdev;
- if (virAsprintf(&linkpath, "%s/mdev_type",
udev_device_get_syspath(dev)) < 0)
+ /* Because of a kernel uevent race, we might get the 'add' event prior to
+ * the sysfs tree being ready, so any attempt to access any sysfs attribute
+ * would result in ENOENT and us dropping the device, so let's work around
+ * it by waiting for the attributes to become available.
+ */
+
+ if (virAsprintf(&linkpath, "%s/mdev_type",
+ udev_device_get_syspath(dev)) < 0)
goto cleanup;
+ if (virFileWaitForAccess(linkpath, 1, 100) < 0) {
+ virReportSystemError(errno,
+ _("failed to wait for file '%s' to
appear"),
+ linkpath);
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
+
if (virFileResolveLink(linkpath, &canonicalpath) < 0) {
virReportSystemError(errno, _("failed to resolve '%s'"),
linkpath);
goto cleanup;