Re: [PATCH 02/10] Fix the qemu crash when guest shutdown during checkpoint

[Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de>]

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On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:48:31 +0000
"Rao, Lei" <lei.rao@intel.com> wrote:

> The Primary VM can be shut down when it is in COLO state, which may trigger this bug.

Do you have a backtrace for this bug?

> About 'shutdown' -> 'colo' -> 'running', I think you are right, I did have the problems you said. For 'shutdown'->'colo', The fixed patch(5647051f432b7c9b57525470b0a79a31339062d2) have been merged.
> Recently, I found another bug as follows in the test.
> 	qemu-system-x86_64: invalid runstate transition: 'shutdown' -> 'running'
>     	Aborted (core dumped)
> The gdb bt as following:
>     #0  __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:50
>     #1  0x00007faa3d613859 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:79
>     #2  0x000055c5a21268fd in runstate_set (new_state=RUN_STATE_RUNNING) at vl.c:723
>     #3  0x000055c5a1f8cae4 in vm_prepare_start () at /home/workspace/colo-qemu/cpus.c:2206
>     #4  0x000055c5a1f8cb1b in vm_start () at /home/workspace/colo-qemu/cpus.c:2213
>     #5  0x000055c5a2332bba in migration_iteration_finish (s=0x55c5a4658810) at migration/migration.c:3376
>     #6  0x000055c5a2332f3b in migration_thread (opaque=0x55c5a4658810) at migration/migration.c:3527
>     #7  0x000055c5a251d68a in qemu_thread_start (args=0x55c5a5491a70) at util/qemu-thread-posix.c:519
>     #8  0x00007faa3d7e9609 in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>) at pthread_create.c:477
>     #9  0x00007faa3d710293 in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:95
> 
> For the bug, I made the following changes:
> 	@@ -3379,7 +3379,9 @@ static void migration_iteration_finish(MigrationState *s)
>      case MIGRATION_STATUS_CANCELLED:
>      case MIGRATION_STATUS_CANCELLING:
>          if (s->vm_was_running) {
> -            vm_start();
> +            if (!runstate_check(RUN_STATE_SHUTDOWN)) {
> +                vm_start();
> +            }
>          } else {
>              if (runstate_check(RUN_STATE_FINISH_MIGRATE)) {
>                  runstate_set(RUN_STATE_POSTMIGRATE);
> 				 
> I will send the patch to community after more test.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lei.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lukas Straub <lukasstraub2@web.de> 
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 3:13 AM
> To: Rao, Lei <lei.rao@intel.com>
> Cc: Zhang, Chen <chen.zhang@intel.com>; lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com; jasowang@redhat.com; zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com; quintela@redhat.com; dgilbert@redhat.com; qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] Fix the qemu crash when guest shutdown during checkpoint
> 
> On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:46:27 +0800
> leirao <lei.rao@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: "Rao, Lei" <lei.rao@intel.com>
> > 
> > This patch fixes the following:
> >     qemu-system-x86_64: invalid runstate transition: 'colo' ->'shutdown'
> >     Aborted (core dumped)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lei Rao <lei.rao@intel.com>  
> 
> I wonder how that is possible, since the VM is stopped during 'colo' state.
> 
> Unrelated to this patch, I think this area needs some work since the following unintended runstate transition is possible:
> 'shutdown' -> 'colo' -> 'running'.
> 
> > ---
> >  softmmu/runstate.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/softmmu/runstate.c b/softmmu/runstate.c index 
> > 636aab0..455ad0d 100644
> > --- a/softmmu/runstate.c
> > +++ b/softmmu/runstate.c
> > @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ static const RunStateTransition runstate_transitions_def[] = {
> >      { RUN_STATE_RESTORE_VM, RUN_STATE_PRELAUNCH },
> >  
> >      { RUN_STATE_COLO, RUN_STATE_RUNNING },
> > +    { RUN_STATE_COLO, RUN_STATE_SHUTDOWN},
> >  
> >      { RUN_STATE_RUNNING, RUN_STATE_DEBUG },
> >      { RUN_STATE_RUNNING, RUN_STATE_INTERNAL_ERROR },  
> 
> 
> 



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