- **status**: review --> fixed
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** [tickets:#437] osaf: opensaf_reboot is not safe**
**Status:** fixed
**Created:** Fri May 31, 2013 10:30 AM UTC by Anders Widell
**Last Updated:** Fri May 31, 2013 11:27 AM UTC
**Owner:** Anders Widell
Migrated from <http://devel.opensaf.org/ticket/3085>
AMF uses opensaf_reboot as a panic operation. Under the hood the script calls
the command "reboot -f" which basically does sync() followed by reboot().
First issue is that the reboot command itself can fail if there is e.g. a hard
drive failure. fsck on reboot might possibly fix the problem.
Second issue is that sync() can hang forever if 1) there is a bug or corruption
in the file system, 2) a network file system server is not responding.
It is suggested that the opensaf_reboot command is time supervised and after a
timeout expires fallback to reboot() or "echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger".
Out of memory situation should also be considered. The supervision mechanism
should be safe in the sense that no forks or memory allocation is needed to
reboot.
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