kvm: fix storage pool refcount race and false umount success - #14189
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Two bugs in the storage pool teardown path. adjustStoragePoolRefCount() means to lock on the single String instance held as the map key, so that all callers share a monitor. When the map has no entry for the pool, orElse(uuid) returns the caller's own instance instead and the synchronized block guards nothing. Increments cannot race each other: they happen inside createStoragePool, which is only reached through KVMStoragePoolManager.createStoragePool, and that is synchronized. Decrements are not covered, because KVMStoragePoolManager.deleteStoragePool is not. So an increment and a decrement can run at the same time, and while the map has no entry for the pool they take different monitors and the decrement's remove() can erase the increment. The count then reaches zero while the pool is still in use. Use ConcurrentHashMap.compute(), which is atomic for the key. deleteStoragePool() decided whether the retried umount had worked from the return of runSimpleBashScript(), which is null both when the command fails, because runScript() discards the output on a non-zero exit, and when it succeeds without printing anything. A failed umount was therefore logged and returned as a success. Take the outcome from whether the path is still a mount point, which also covers the pool having been unmounted by something else in the meantime, and return false rather than throwing when it is still mounted: deleteStoragePool() is called from finally blocks, where a throw would discard the result of an operation that has already succeeded. Signed-off-by: Brad House <bhouse@nexthop.ai>
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Description
Two bugs in the KVM agent's storage pool teardown path. They are independent but they show up together, so they are fixed together.
Bug 1 - the storage pool refcount is not thread safe
The lock is meant to be the one
Stringinstance held as the map key, so that all callers share a monitor. When the map has no entry for the pool,orElse(uuid)hands back the caller's ownStringinstead. Two threads in that state synchronize on two different objects and the block guards nothing.Which callers can actually collide:
createStoragePool→KVMStoragePoolManager.createStoragePoolsynchronizeddeleteStoragePool→KVMStoragePoolManager.deleteStoragePoolSo two increments never race. The reachable losing interleaving is an increment against a decrement while the map has no entry for the pool: they take different monitors, and the decrement's
remove()erases the increment. The count then reaches zero while the pool is still in use.Observed on one KVM host over one day:
deleteStoragePoolcallsdevice is busyAll 22 failed. If the count were right, reaching zero would mean nothing holds the mount and the unmount would succeed. They also arrive in bursts, four threads tearing down the same pool inside 20 seconds:
Bug 2 - a failed umount is logged and returned as success
Script.runScript()returnsnullin two different situations:umountprints nothing on success, soresultis always null and this branch always reported success. From an agent log, 28 ms apart:Fix
ConcurrentHashMap.compute(), which is atomic per key, and drop the broken lockfalseinstead of throwingThe umount is still run through
runSimpleBashScript(), because that is what logs the reason the umount failed (device is busyand so on) and that line is the useful diagnostic. Only the decision moved:mountpoint -qsays whether the pool is actually unmounted. That also makes "something else already unmounted it" a success rather than a failure.deleteStoragePool()returnsfalseon a genuine failure rather than throwing. It is called fromfinallyblocks inLibvirtCopyVolumeCommandWrapper,LibvirtPrimaryStorageDownloadCommandWrapperandLibvirtComputingResource.templateToPrimaryDownload, and a throw from afinallydiscards the result of the operation that just succeeded. The only caller that reads the returned boolean isLibvirtModifyStoragePoolCommandWrapper, which uses the overload that takes pool details and is not on this path.compute()also removes the entry by returningnull, so the map still drops pools that are no longer in use. The behaviour seen by callers is unchanged:decStoragePoolRefCount()still reports whether the pool is still in use.incStoragePoolRefCountanddecStoragePoolRefCountbecomeprotectedso the behaviour can be tested. They already areprotectedonmain.What this does not fix
Two related problems in the same path are left alone, to keep this change small. Both are worth fixing separately.
The decrement is not atomic with the teardown.
compute()makes each adjustment atomic; it does not make "decrement reached zero" atomic with the unmount that follows it. BetweendecStoragePoolRefCount()returning false anddestroyStoragePool()running, there is a libvirt connect and a secret lookup, and another thread can take the pool again in that window. That still ends indevice is busy.A refcount leak in
createStoragePool.incStoragePoolRefCountis inside atrywhose onlycatchisLibvirtException, butcheckNetfsStoragePoolMountedandgetStoragePoolboth throwCloudRuntimeException. On that path the compensating decrement is skipped and the count leaks by one, permanently, so the pool is never unmounted. This is the opposite failure to the one fixed here.Types of changes
How Has This Been Tested?
Added
testStoragePoolRefCountCountsEveryConcurrentIncrementtoLibvirtStorageAdaptorTest.What it does, per round:
CyclicBarrierand then increment the refcount at onceStringinstance, equal to the others but not the same object, the way the agent does when the uuid is parsed out of a separate command payload per requestIt runs 500 rounds, because the window only exists while the map has no entry for the pool. Once an entry is there, the key set lookup does find a shared instance and the lock works.
Results:
pool should still be in use after 15 of 16 releasesIt is a probabilistic detector, not a deterministic one. It needs real parallelism, so its power depends on the runner: it caught the bug on every run on 6 or more cores, around 6 runs in 10 on 4 cores, and not at all on 2 cores. It never fails with the fix applied.
The test uses a plain
LibvirtStorageAdaptorrather than the class's shared Mockito@Spy, because routing 16,000 concurrent calls through Mockito's invocation recorder adds a lock of its own that could mask the race being tested.Full KVM plugin test suite on this branch: 677 tests, 0 failures, 1 skipped.