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Bug 1046695

Summary: libvirtd: page allocation failure in vhost_net_open
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: R P Herrold <herrold>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Ján Tomko <jtomko>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Version: 7.0CC: acathrow, dyuan, herrold, mzhan, ydu, zhwang
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Last Closed: 2014-01-10 16:39:49 UTC Type: Bug
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dmesg dump ... system startup at top, segfault at bottom none

Description R P Herrold 2013-12-26 15:36:45 UTC
Created attachment 841954 [details]
dmesg dump ... system startup at top, segfault at bottom

Description of problem:

segfault of unknown genesis

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

3.10.0-54.0.1.el7

How reproducible:

not clear why it happened -- it is on an active buildbox, and may have a failure to be able to allocate ram down in a SELinux process from the look of it

Steps to Reproduce:

we restarted the libvirtd when it appeared to be hung, thus the different PIDs

cannot provoke at will, but we are getting these with some regularity 

[root@centos7-64-herc bin]# dmesg | grep libvirtd
[94429.505462] libvirtd: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x1040d0
[94429.505474] CPU: 0 PID: 10985 Comm: libvirtd Not tainted 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[94431.926885] libvirtd: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x1040d0
[94431.926893] CPU: 1 PID: 10985 Comm: libvirtd Not tainted 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[95268.783462] libvirtd: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x1040d0
[95268.783470] CPU: 1 PID: 10982 Comm: libvirtd Not tainted 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[95271.606514] libvirtd: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x1040d0
[95271.606523] CPU: 1 PID: 10982 Comm: libvirtd Not tainted 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[95536.611678] libvirtd: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x1040d0
[95536.611686] CPU: 1 PID: 10985 Comm: libvirtd Not tainted 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[96028.740930] libvirtd: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x1040d0
[96028.740939] CPU: 0 PID: 10981 Comm: libvirtd Not tainted 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[96029.440471] libvirtd: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x1040d0
[96029.440478] CPU: 1 PID: 10981 Comm: libvirtd Not tainted 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[root@centos7-64-herc bin]#


Actual results:

virtualization hangs and segfaults

Expected results:

no hangs nor segfaults

Additional info:

Comment 2 Ján Tomko 2014-01-07 15:44:40 UTC
I don't see any segfaults in the log, just an 'out of memory' error in the kernel.

Could you install the debug infos and provide a backtrace of the hanging libvirtd? ( as described on http://libvirt.org/bugs.html#quality )

Comment 3 R P Herrold 2014-01-07 16:33:06 UTC
I spoke perhaps imprecisely 

--- something that produces a kernel process trace in the dmesg's is to me, something that needs to be fixed, as the owning process should have caught the error, into syslog / stderror space,  rather than kernel 'dmesg' space 

--- so, not a 'segfault' in the sense of a null pointer ref or such, but still needing an error catch and handle


[94429.505462] libvirtd: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x1040d0
[94429.505474] CPU: 0 PID: 10985 Comm: libvirtd Not tainted 3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[94429.505478] Hardware name: Dell Inc.                 Precision WorkStation 380    /0G9322, BIOS A09 01/08/2007
[94429.505481]  0000000000000000 ffff88006af139e0 ffffffff815b4dde ffff88006af13a68
[94429.505488]  ffffffff81139910 ffff88020bfd4b38 000000000000000e ffffffff8113c1a6
[94429.505493]  ffff880000000040 ffffffff810bb243 0000000000000001 0000000000000010
[94429.505498] Call Trace:
[94429.505510]  [<ffffffff815b4dde>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[94429.505516]  [<ffffffff81139910>] warn_alloc_failed+0xf0/0x160
[94429.505521]  [<ffffffff8113c1a6>] ? drain_local_pages+0x16/0x20
[94429.505527]  [<ffffffff810bb243>] ? on_each_cpu_mask+0x43/0x60
[94429.505532]  [<ffffffff8113d8df>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x7ff/0xa00
[94429.505538]  [<ffffffff81178659>] alloc_pages_current+0xa9/0x170
[94429.505544]  [<ffffffff8113889e>] __get_free_pages+0xe/0x50
[94429.505552]  [<ffffffff81182bae>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x2e/0xa0
[94429.505560]  [<ffffffffa08b8d79>] vhost_net_open+0x29/0x1b0 [vhost_net]
[94429.505566]  [<ffffffff8137487f>] misc_open+0xaf/0x1c0
[94429.505571]  [<ffffffff811a2a12>] chrdev_open+0x92/0x1d0
[94429.505576]  [<ffffffff8119bdef>] do_dentry_open+0x1ef/0x2a0
[94429.505581]  [<ffffffff811a97e2>] ? __inode_permission+0x52/0xc0
[94429.505585]  [<ffffffff811a2980>] ? cdev_put+0x30/0x30
[94429.505589]  [<ffffffff8119bed1>] finish_open+0x31/0x40
[94429.505593]  [<ffffffff811ad32c>] do_last+0x56c/0x11f0
[94429.505599]  [<ffffffff8123dbfc>] ? selinux_file_alloc_security+0x3c/0x60
[94429.505603]  [<ffffffff811ae060>] path_openat+0xb0/0x480
[94429.505608]  [<ffffffff8115d4b5>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x285/0x3a0
[94429.505612]  [<ffffffff811aeb98>] do_filp_open+0x38/0x80
[94429.505617]  [<ffffffff811bacc7>] ? __alloc_fd+0xa7/0x130
[94429.505621]  [<ffffffff8119d1a9>] do_sys_open+0xe9/0x1c0
[94429.505625]  [<ffffffff8119d29e>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20
[94429.505630]  [<ffffffff815c4c99>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[94429.505633] Mem-Info:
[94429.505635] Node 0 DMA per-cpu:
[94429.505639] CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
[94429.505642] CPU    1: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0

Comment 4 R P Herrold 2014-01-07 16:33:55 UTC
I cannot directly reproduce that load environment, as the machine in question has been torn down and re-provisioned

Comment 5 Ján Tomko 2014-01-10 16:39:49 UTC
I don't think libvirtd possibly can (or wants to) prevent kernel from logging that stack trace.

If open returned ENOMEM, libvirt should've caught it and reported an error as well instead of hanging. But I'm afraid there's not much to be done without knowing what exactly was libvirtd doing at the time. Please reopen the bug if you have more information: some steps to reproduce this, a backtrace of the hanging libvirtd or debug logs from libvirtd.