Re: [PATCH v3] nodedev: ignore EINVAL from libudev in udevEventHandleThread
On 11/10/22 10:36, christian.ehrha...@canonical.com wrote: > From: Christian Ehrhardt > > Certain udev entries might be of a size that makes libudev emit EINVAL > which right now leads to udevEventHandleThread exiting. Due to no more > handling events other elements of libvirt will start pushing for events > to be consumed which never happens causing a busy loop burning a cpu > without any gain. > > After evaluation of the example case discussed in in #245 and a test > run ignoring EINVAL it was considered safe to add EINVAL to the ignored > errnos to not exit udevEventHandleThread giving it more resilience. > > The root cause is in systemd and by now was discussed and fixed via > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/24987, but hardening libvirt > to be able to better deal with EINVAL returned still is the right thing > to avoid the reported busy loops on systemd with older systemd versions. > > Fixes: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/245 > > Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt > Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé > --- > src/node_device/node_device_udev.c | 6 -- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Pushed now, sorry for the delay. Michal
[PATCH v3] nodedev: ignore EINVAL from libudev in udevEventHandleThread
From: Christian Ehrhardt
Certain udev entries might be of a size that makes libudev emit EINVAL
which right now leads to udevEventHandleThread exiting. Due to no more
handling events other elements of libvirt will start pushing for events
to be consumed which never happens causing a busy loop burning a cpu
without any gain.
After evaluation of the example case discussed in in #245 and a test
run ignoring EINVAL it was considered safe to add EINVAL to the ignored
errnos to not exit udevEventHandleThread giving it more resilience.
The root cause is in systemd and by now was discussed and fixed via
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/24987, but hardening libvirt
to be able to better deal with EINVAL returned still is the right thing
to avoid the reported busy loops on systemd with older systemd versions.
Fixes: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/245
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé
---
src/node_device/node_device_udev.c | 6 --
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
index 24ef1c25a9..2454cab8f8 100644
--- a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
+++ b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
@@ -1865,10 +1865,12 @@ udevEventHandleThread(void *opaque G_GNUC_UNUSED)
}
/* POSIX allows both EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK to be used
- * interchangeably when the read would block or timeout was fired
+ * interchangeably when the read would block or timeout was fired.
+ * EINVAL might happen on too large udev entries, ignore those for
+ * the robustness of udevEventHandleThread.
*/
VIR_WARNINGS_NO_WLOGICALOP_EQUAL_EXPR
-if (errno != EAGAIN && errno != EWOULDBLOCK) {
+if (errno != EAGAIN && errno != EWOULDBLOCK && errno != EINVAL) {
VIR_WARNINGS_RESET
virReportSystemError(errno, "%s",
_("failed to receive device from udev "
--
2.38.1
[PATCH v3] nodedev: ignore EINVAL from libudev in udevEventHandleThread
From: Christian Ehrhardt
Certain udev entries might be of a size that makes libudev emit EINVAL
which right now leads to udevEventHandleThread exiting. Due to no more
handling events other elements of libvirt will start pushing for events
to be consumed which never happens causing a busy loop burning a cpu
without any gain.
After evaluation of the root cause of the example case discussed in
in #245 and a test run ignoring EINVAL it was considered safe to add
EINVAL to the ignored errnos to not exit udevEventHandleThread giving
it more resilience.
Fixes: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/245
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt
---
src/node_device/node_device_udev.c | 6 --
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
index 07c10f0d88..21fbcc2dca 100644
--- a/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
+++ b/src/node_device/node_device_udev.c
@@ -1863,10 +1863,12 @@ udevEventHandleThread(void *opaque G_GNUC_UNUSED)
}
/* POSIX allows both EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK to be used
- * interchangeably when the read would block or timeout was fired
+ * interchangeably when the read would block or timeout was fired.
+ * EINVAL might happen on too large udev entries, ignore those for
+ * the robustness of udevEventHandleThread.
*/
VIR_WARNINGS_NO_WLOGICALOP_EQUAL_EXPR
-if (errno != EAGAIN && errno != EWOULDBLOCK) {
+if (errno != EAGAIN && errno != EWOULDBLOCK && errno != EINVAL) {
VIR_WARNINGS_RESET
virReportSystemError(errno, "%s",
_("failed to receive device from udev "
--
2.38.0
