In some of our destructive testing of ovn-dbs inside containers managed by pacemaker we reached a situation where /var/run/openvswitch had empty .pid files. The current code does not deal well with them and pidfile_is_running() returns true in such a case and this confuses the OCF resource agent.
- Before this change: Inside a container run: killall ovsdb-server; echo -n '' > /var/run/openvswitch/ovnnb_db.pid; echo -n '' > /var/run/openvswitch/ovnsb_db.pid We will observe that the cluster is unable to ever recover because it believes the ovn processes to be running when they really aren't and eventually just fails: podman container set: ovn-dbs-bundle [192.168.24.1:8787/rhosp15/openstack-ovn-northd:pcmklatest] ovn-dbs-bundle-0 (ocf::ovn:ovndb-servers): Master controller-0 ovn-dbs-bundle-1 (ocf::ovn:ovndb-servers): Stopped controller-1 ovn-dbs-bundle-2 (ocf::ovn:ovndb-servers): Slave controller-2 Let's make sure pid_exists() returns false when the pid is an empty string. - After this change the cluster is able to recover from this state and correctly start the resource: podman container set: ovn-dbs-bundle [192.168.24.1:8787/rhosp15/openstack-ovn-northd:pcmklatest] ovn-dbs-bundle-0 (ocf::ovn:ovndb-servers): Master controller-0 ovn-dbs-bundle-1 (ocf::ovn:ovndb-servers): Slave controller-1 ovn-dbs-bundle-2 (ocf::ovn:ovndb-servers): Slave controller-2 Fixes: 3028ce2595c8 ("ovs-lib: Allow "status" command to work as non-root.") Signed-off-by: Michele Baldessari <mich...@acksyn.org> --- v1 -> v2 ======== - Implemented Ilya's suggestion and moved the check from pidfile_is_running() to pid_exists() and re-run my tests --- utilities/ovs-lib.in | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/utilities/ovs-lib.in b/utilities/ovs-lib.in index fa840ec637f5..dc485413ef0c 100644 --- a/utilities/ovs-lib.in +++ b/utilities/ovs-lib.in @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ fi pid_exists () { # This is better than "kill -0" because it doesn't require permission to # send a signal (so daemon_status in particular works as non-root). - test -d /proc/"$1" + test -n "$1" && test -d /proc/"$1" } pid_comm_check () { -- 2.21.0 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev