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Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs |
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Mon, 3 Apr 2017 10:15:42 +0200 |
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Am 31.03.2017 um 19:43 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> On 31.03.2017 18:03, Ciprian Barbu wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Similar to the other thread about possible regression with rbd, there might
> > be a regression with nbd.
> > This time we are launching an instance from an image (not volume) and try
> > to live migrate it:
> >
> > nova live-migration <test_instance>
> >
> > The nova-compute service complains with:
> >
> > 2017-03-31 15:32:56.179 7806 INFO nova.virt.libvirt.driver
> > [req-15d79cbe-5956-4738-92df-3624e6b993ee d795de59fb9a4ea38776a11d20ae8469
> > cee03e74881f4ccba3b83345fb652b2c - - -] [instance:
> > 6a04508f-5d79-4582-8e2c-4cc368753f6c] Migration running for 0 secs, memory
> > 100% remaining; (bytes processed=0, remaining=0, total=0)
> > 2017-03-31 15:32:58.029 7806 WARNING stevedore.named
> > [req-73bc0113-5555-4dd8-8903-d3540cc61b47 b9fbceeadd2d4d1bab9c90ae104db1f7
> > 7e7db99b32c6467184701e9a0c2f1de7 - - -] Could not load instance_network_info
> > 2017-03-31 15:32:59.038 7806 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.driver
> > [req-15d79cbe-5956-4738-92df-3624e6b993ee d795de59fb9a4ea38776a11d20ae8469
> > cee03e74881f4ccba3b83345fb652b2c - - -] [instance:
> > 6a04508f-5d79-4582-8e2c-4cc368753f6c] Live Migration failure: internal
> > error: unable to execute QEMU command 'nbd-server-add': Conflicts with use
> > by drive-virtio-disk0 as 'root', which does not allow 'write' on #block143
> > 2017-03-31 15:32:59.190 7806 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.driver
> > [req-15d79cbe-5956-4738-92df-3624e6b993ee d795de59fb9a4ea38776a11d20ae8469
> > cee03e74881f4ccba3b83345fb652b2c - - -] [instance:
> > 6a04508f-5d79-4582-8e2c-4cc368753f6c] Migration operation has aborted
> >
> > I will try and bisect it myself, but I thought I would paste this here
> > first, just so you know there is this issue too.
>
> Well, I already know the commit in question. It's
> 8a7ce4f9338c475df1afc12502af704e4300a3e0 ("nbd/server: Use real
> permissions for NBD exports").
>
> Whether this is a bug depends on the standpoint. I would very much
> consider it a bug fix because as of this commit you can no longer create
> a writable NBD server on a block device that is in use by a guest device
> without the guest device being aware of this.
>
> The problem is that the functionality to "make" the guest device "aware"
> of it was introduced only a couple of commits before, and it's called
> "share-rw".
>
> So this doesn't work:
>
> $ x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 \
> -blockdev node-name=image,driver=qcow2,\
> file.driver=file,file.filename=foo.qcow2 \
> -device virtio-blk,drive=image \
> -qmp stdio
> {"QMP": {"version": {"qemu": {"micro": 92, "minor": 8, "major": 2},
> "package": " (v2.8.0-2038-g6604c893d0)"}, "capabilities": []}}
> {'execute':'qmp_capabilities'}
> {"return": {}}
> {'execute':'nbd-server-start','arguments':{'addr':{'type':'inet','data':{'host':'localhost','port':'10809'}}}}
> {"return": {}}
> {'execute':'nbd-server-add','arguments':{'device':'image','writable':true}}
> {"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Conflicts with use by
> /machine/peripheral-anon/device[0]/virtio-backend as 'root', which does
> not allow 'write' on image"}
>
> But this works:
>
> $ x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 \
> -blockdev node-name=image,driver=qcow2,\
> file.driver=file,file.filename=foo.qcow2 \
> -device virtio-blk,drive=image,share-rw=on \
> -qmp stdio
> {"QMP": {"version": {"qemu": {"micro": 92, "minor": 8, "major": 2},
> "package": " (v2.8.0-2038-g6604c893d0)"}, "capabilities": []}}
> {'execute':'qmp_capabilities'}
> {"return": {}}
> {'execute':'nbd-server-start','arguments':{'addr':{'type':'inet','data':{'host':'localhost','port':'10809'}}}}
> {"return": {}}
> {'execute':'nbd-server-add','arguments':{'device':'image','writable':true}}
> {"return": {}}
>
> (The difference is the share-rw=on in the -device parameter.)
>
> So in theory all that's necessary is to set share-rw=on for the device
> in the management layer. But I'm not sure whether that's practical.
Yes, libvirt needs to provide this option if the guest supports sharing.
If it doesn't support sharing, rejecting a read-write NBD client seems
correct to me.
Peter, Eric, what is the status on the libvirt side here?
> As for just allowing the NBD server write access to the device... To me
> that appears pretty difficult from an implementation perspective. We
> assert that nobody can write without having requested write access and
> we make sure that nobody can request write access without it being
> allowed. Making an exception for NBD seems very difficult and would
> probably mean we'd have to drop the assertion for write accesses altogether.
Making an exception would simply be wrong.
Kevin
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs,
Kevin Wolf <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs, Max Reitz, 2017/04/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs, Kevin Wolf, 2017/04/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs, Peter Krempa, 2017/04/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs, Kevin Wolf, 2017/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs, Eric Blake, 2017/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs, Kevin Wolf, 2017/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/04/04
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs, Kevin Wolf, 2017/04/05
- Re: [Qemu-devel] nbd: Possible regression in 2.9 RCs, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/04/05