On 10/31/24 12:02, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
> 
> 
> On 30 Oct 2024, at 14:50, Ilya Maximets wrote:
> 
>> Multiple versions of Libreswan have an issue where ipsec --start
>> command may get stuck forever.  This issue affects many popular
>> versions of Libreswan from 4.5 to 4.15, which are shipped in most
>> modern distributions.
>>
>> When ipsec --start gets stuck, ovs-monitor-ipsec hangs and can't do
>> anything else, so not olny this one but all other tunnels are also
> 
> nit: olny -> only

OK.

> 
>> not being started.
>>
>> Add a timeout to the subprocess call, so we do not wait forever.  Just
>> introduced reconciliation process will clean things up and will try to
>> re-add this connection later.
>>
>> Pluto may take a lot of time to process the --start request.  Notably,
>> the time depends on the retransmission timeout, which is 60 seconds by
>> default.  However, even at high scale, it doesn't take much more than
>> that in tests.  So, 120 second timeout should be a reasonable default
>> value.
>>
>> Note: it is observed in practice that the process doesn't actually
>> terminate for a long time, so we can't afford waiting for it.
>> That's the main reason why we're not using the subprocess.run() with
>> a timeout option here (it would wait).  But also, because we'd had to
>> catch the exception anyway.
>>
>> Reported-at: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-846
>> Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  ipsec/ovs-monitor-ipsec.in | 14 ++++++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/ipsec/ovs-monitor-ipsec.in b/ipsec/ovs-monitor-ipsec.in
>> index 5d4b77bd2..dba855af5 100755
>> --- a/ipsec/ovs-monitor-ipsec.in
>> +++ b/ipsec/ovs-monitor-ipsec.in
>> @@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ exiting = False
>>  monitor = None
>>  xfrm = None
>>  RECONCILIATION_INTERVAL = 15  # seconds
>> +TIEMOUT_EXPIRED = 37
> 
> TIEMOUT -> TIMEOUT

Oops. :)

> 
> Also, 37 seems rather random, any reason why this was chosen?

It is random.  I just needed a non-zero number to return as I do
not want to re-raise the exception and catch it in the caller.

Maybe 137 would be a good number?  We do kill the process and
128 + 9 = 137 would be an exit code for a process terminated with
SIGKILL in Linux.

WDYT?

> 
>>
>>
>>  def run_command(args, description=None):
>> @@ -96,7 +97,16 @@ def run_command(args, description=None):
> 
> Maybe add the timeout as an argument, i.e. timeout=120?

It's never used as an argument, but I can see an argument for
not using a global value in the function from the next patch,
so I'll change that.

> 
>>      vlog.dbg("Running %s" % args)
>>      proc = subprocess.Popen(args, stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
>>                              stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
>> -    pout, perr = proc.communicate()
>> +    try:
>> +        pout, perr = proc.communicate(timeout=120)
>> +        ret = proc.returncode
>> +    except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
>> +        vlog.warn("Command timed out trying to %s." % description)
> 
> Maye add the timeout value to the log also?

Maybe "Command timed out after %s seconds trying to %s." ?

> 
>> +        pout, perr = b'', b''
>> +        # Just kill the process here.  We can't afford waiting for it,
>> +        # as it may be stuck and may not actually be terminated.
>> +        proc.kill()
>> +        ret = TIEMOUT_EXPIRED
>>
>>      if proc.returncode or perr:
>>          vlog.warn("Failed to %s; exit code: %d"
>> @@ -105,7 +115,7 @@ def run_command(args, description=None):
>>          vlog.warn("stderr: %s" % perr)
>>          vlog.warn("stdout: %s" % pout)
>>
>> -    return proc.returncode, pout.decode(), perr.decode()
>> +    return ret, pout.decode(), perr.decode()
>>
>>
>>  class XFRM(object):
>> -- 
>> 2.46.0
> 

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