** Description changed:
- The version of qemu-kvm that's in Precise fails to lock the pidfile like
- it did in all previous versions, possibly leading to data corruption as
- it might run twice on the same disk images (depending on the
- configuration).
+ ============================
+ SRU Justification:
+ 1. Impact: two kvm processes can start (conflicting) with the same pidfile
+ 2. Development fix: keep the pidfile locked for duration of qemu-kvm process
+ 3. Stable fix: same as development fix (cherry-pick the patch)
+ 4. Test case:
+ $ kvm -vnc :1 -pidfile abab &
+ $ kvm -vnc :2 -pidfile abab
+ With the patch, the second kvm will exit with the message:
+ Could not acquire pid file: Resource temporarily unavailable
+ Without the patch the second kvm will run, overwriting the pid of the first.
+ 5. Regression potential: as mentioned in the patch description, coverity may
+ complain about the open fd being a leak.
+
+ ============================
+ The version of qemu-kvm that's in Precise fails to lock the pidfile like it
did in all previous versions, possibly leading to data corruption as it might
run twice on the same disk images (depending on the configuration).
Upstream has already fixed this bug in
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=93dd748b789202af4f5be75412c58ee1ed481b29
(patch attached).
Please apply this patch to the Precise version. Thanks!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: qemu-kvm 1.0+noroms-0ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 10 22:49:05 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
KvmCmdLine: Error: command ['ps', '-C', 'kvm', '-F'] failed with exit code 1:
UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-880GMA-UD2H
ProcEnviron:
- TERM=xterm
- PATH=(custom, user)
- LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
- SHELL=/bin/zsh
+ TERM=xterm
+ PATH=(custom, user)
+ LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
+ SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-26-generic
root=/dev/mapper/sys-root ro rw
rootflags=logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,noatime,nobarrier hugepages=2060 quiet splash
vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: qemu-kvm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-07-07 (3 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/10/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F3
dmi.board.name: GA-880GMA-UD2H
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF3:bd06/10/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-880GMA-UD2H:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-880GMA-UD2H:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-880GMA-UD2H
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
** Also affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Precise)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Quantal)
Importance: Medium
Status: Triaged
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Quantal)
Status: Triaged => Fix Released
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