When trying to shutdown a hung container with `forceStop=0` (e.g. via the Web UI), the shutdown task may run indefinitely while holding a lock on the container config. The reason is that the shutdown subroutine waits for the LXC command socket to close, even if the `lxc-stop` command has failed due to timeout. This prevents other tasks (such as a stop task) from acquiring the lock. In order to stop the container, the shutdown task has to be explicitly killed first, which is inconvenient. This occurs e.g. when trying to shutdown a hung CentOS 7 container (with systemd <v232) in a cgroupv2 environment.
This fix imposes a timeout on the socket read operation if the `lxc-stop` command has failed. Behavior in case `lxc-stop` succeeds is unchanged. This reintroduces some code from b1bad293. The timeout duration is the given shutdown timeout, meaning that the final task duration in the scenario above is twice the shutdown timeout. Signed-off-by: Friedrich Weber <f.we...@proxmox.com> --- I stumbled upon the hanging CentOS 7 container shutdown task while looking into #4474. However, it is quite the edge case and only slightly inconvenient, so I'm not sure whether it needs to be addressed -- and if it needs to be addressed, I'm not sure whether the attached fix is the way to go. :) So I'm submitting it as an RFC. Let me know what you think. src/PVE/LXC.pm | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/PVE/LXC.pm b/src/PVE/LXC.pm index ce6d5a5..9b3cd64 100644 --- a/src/PVE/LXC.pm +++ b/src/PVE/LXC.pm @@ -2473,11 +2473,21 @@ sub vm_stop { } eval { run_command($cmd, timeout => $shutdown_timeout) }; + + my $result = 1; + my $wait = sub { $result = <$sock>; }; + + # Wait until the command socket is closed. + # In case the lxc-stop call failed, reading from the command socket may block forever, + # so read with another timeout to avoid freezing the shutdown task. if (my $err = $@) { - warn $@ if $@; - } + warn $err if $err; - my $result = <$sock>; + eval { PVE::Tools::run_with_timeout($shutdown_timeout, $wait); }; + warn "read from command socket failed: $@" if $@; + } else { + $wait->(); + } return if !defined $result; # monitor is gone and the ct has stopped. die "container did not stop\n"; -- 2.30.2 _______________________________________________ pve-devel mailing list pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com https://lists.proxmox.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pve-devel