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Bug 2060415

Summary: can't uncompress dumped file by podman container checkpoint
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Alex Jia <ajia>
Component: podmanAssignee: Urvashi Mohnani <umohnani>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: atomic-bugs <atomic-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 8.6CC: bbaude, dwalsh, jligon, jnovy, lsm5, mheon, pthomas, tsweeney, umohnani, ypu
Target Milestone: rcFlags: pm-rhel: mirror+
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alex Jia 2022-03-03 13:48:27 UTC
Description of problem:
Altough podman container checkpoint/restore can be ran successfully, but it's failed to manually uncompress dumped file generated by podman container checkpoint, and got error lile this "gzip: stdin: not in gzip format XXX", it's okay to podman v4.0 on RHEL 9.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.6 Beta (Ootpa)

[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# rpm -q podman runc crun criu systemd kernel
podman-4.0.2-1.module+el8.6.0+14379+4ec2a99a.x86_64
runc-1.0.3-2.module+el8.6.0+14379+4ec2a99a.x86_64
crun-1.4.2-1.module+el8.6.0+14379+4ec2a99a.x86_64
criu-3.15-3.module+el8.6.0+14379+4ec2a99a.x86_64
systemd-239-58.el8.x86_64
kernel-4.18.0-369.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. podman run -it --name foobar quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest sleep 1000
2. podman container checkpoint foobar -e /tmp/foobar.tar.gz
3. tar xvf /tmp/foobar.tar.gz or tar zxvf /tmp/foobar.tar.gz

Actual results:
[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman run -it --name foobar quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest sleep 1000

open a new terminal window

[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman ps
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                         COMMAND     CREATED         STATUS             PORTS       NAMES
4282ccd8a7de  quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest  sleep 1000  11 seconds ago  Up 11 seconds ago              foobar

[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman exec foobar ps|grep sleep
    1 root      0:00 sleep 1000

[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman --runtime=runc container checkpoint foobar -e /tmp/foobar.tar.gz
4282ccd8a7deeaef0b8afeab7b071d219144cd451cee4d76c60bebc74bf8c48d
[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman ps
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE       COMMAND     CREATED     STATUS      PORTS       NAMES
[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman ps -a
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                         COMMAND     CREATED             STATUS                    PORTS       NAMES
4282ccd8a7de  quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest  sleep 1000  About a minute ago  Exited (0) 7 seconds ago              foobar
[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman container restore --latest
4282ccd8a7deeaef0b8afeab7b071d219144cd451cee4d76c60bebc74bf8c48d
[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman ps
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE                         COMMAND     CREATED             STATUS                 PORTS       NAMES
4282ccd8a7de  quay.io/libpod/alpine:latest  sleep 1000  About a minute ago  Up About a minute ago              foobar
[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# podman exec foobar ps|grep sleep
    1 root      0:00 sleep 1000
[root@sweetpig-21 ~]# tar zxvf /tmp/foobar.tar.gz

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Expected results:
fix it.

Additional info:

it works well for podman-4.0.1-1.el9.x86_64 w/ crun and runc runtime on 9.0.

[root@kvm-07-guest10 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.0 Beta (Plow)

[root@kvm-07-guest10 podman]# rpm -q podman crun runc criu systemd kernel
podman-4.0.1-1.el9.x86_64
crun-1.4.2-1.el9.x86_64
runc-1.1.0-2.el9.x86_64
criu-3.15-13.el9.x86_64
systemd-250-3.el9.x86_64
kernel-5.14.0-69.el9.x86_64

[root@kvm-07-guest10 ~]# criu check --all
Looks good.

...ignore...

[root@kvm-07-guest10 dumpfile]# file checkpoint-7ea942556e5222fd7e1fe93fce9121c7dc730d0159be6e5346c595e558d86bbe.tar.gz
checkpoint-7ea942556e5222fd7e1fe93fce9121c7dc730d0159be6e5346c595e558d86bbe.tar.gz: Zstandard compressed data (v0.8+), Dictionary ID: None

[root@kvm-07-guest10 dumpfile]# tar xvf checkpoint-7ea942556e5222fd7e1fe93fce9121c7dc730d0159be6e5346c595e558d86bbe.tar.gz
artifacts/
devshm-checkpoint.tar
config.dump
spec.dump
network.status
stats-dump
checkpoint/
checkpoint/cgroup.img
checkpoint/core-1.img
checkpoint/descriptors.json
checkpoint/fdinfo-2.img
checkpoint/files.img
checkpoint/fs-1.img
checkpoint/ids-1.img
checkpoint/inventory.img
checkpoint/ipcns-var-11.img
checkpoint/mm-1.img
checkpoint/mountpoints-13.img
checkpoint/netns-10.img
checkpoint/pagemap-1.img
checkpoint/pages-1.img
checkpoint/pstree.img
checkpoint/seccomp.img
checkpoint/timens-0.img
checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-56.tar.gz.img
checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-59.tar.gz.img
checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-60.tar.gz.img
checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-61.tar.gz.img
checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-62.tar.gz.img
checkpoint/tmpfs-dev-63.tar.gz.img
checkpoint/tty-info.img
checkpoint/utsns-12.img

Comment 1 Tom Sweeney 2022-03-04 16:06:03 UTC
@umohnani could you take a peek at this please?

Comment 2 Urvashi Mohnani 2022-04-06 14:14:40 UTC
Yup, working on it.

Comment 3 Tom Sweeney 2023-05-04 22:48:14 UTC
@umohnani is this still a WIP and/or can you add a PR link here please?

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2023-09-03 07:28:06 UTC
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2024-01-02 04:25:04 UTC
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 120 days