Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1290691
iotop crash, OSError: Netlink error: No such file or directory (2)
Last modified: 2016-12-20 11:54:58 EST
Description of problem: When running iotop in a privileged docker container, it crashes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): docker-1.9.1-2.git78bc3ea.fc23.x86_64 iotop-0.6-6.fc23.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fedora Atomic 23.29 2. docker pull fedora 3. docker run -it fedora /bin/bash 4. dnf install iotop hdparm smartmontools strace 5. docker commit <id> fedoradiskutils 6. exit 7. docker run --privileged=true -it fedoradiskutils /bin/bash 8. iotop Actual results: [root@34404614e573 /]# iotop Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/iotop", line 17, in <module> main() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 631, in main main_loop() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 621, in <lambda> main_loop = lambda: run_iotop(options) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 508, in run_iotop return curses.wrapper(run_iotop_window, options) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/curses/wrapper.py", line 43, in wrapper return func(stdscr, *args, **kwds) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/ui.py", line 498, in run_iotop_window taskstats_connection = TaskStatsNetlink(options) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/data.py", line 137, in __init__ self.family_id = controller.get_family_id('TASKSTATS') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/genetlink.py", line 69, in get_family_id m = GeNlMessage.recv(self.conn) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/genetlink.py", line 51, in recv msg = conn.recv() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/iotop/netlink.py", line 229, in recv raise err OSError: Netlink error: No such file or directory (2) [root@34404614e573 /]# Expected results: Should work. hdparm -I <dev> works, as does smartctl -a both of which need more hardware access than iotop. Additional info:
Created attachment 1104593 [details] strace iotop
This is probably because something in a container namespace is missing that the tool expects to see. You might want to try to turn off a couple of the namespaces. Candidates would be --net=host and/or --pid=host
This is definitely not a bug in docker. might be a bug in iotop. For some of the device checking you might want to run your containers with the hosts /dev mounted into the container. docker run -v /dev:/dev --privileged ...
Adding --net=host alone solves this. Other options alone result in the same traceback. Normal/expected?
I spoke too soon. While --net=host avoids the crash, iotop doesn't list any processes. I'm not finding a combination of things that permits that.
(In reply to Daniel Walsh from comment #3) > docker run -v /dev:/dev --privileged ... Do you mean literally '-v /dev:/dev' or the actual block devices being monitored? Because when I do this: [root@f23a ~]# docker run --net=host -v /dev:/dev --privileged=true -it fedext /usr/sbin/iotop -d3 I can no longer remotely ssh into the f23a host that command was run on. Instead I get this from the client: [chris@f23m ~]$ ssh chris@10.0.0.15 PTY allocation request failed on channel 0 Restarting sshd and docker, do nothing. I have to reboot to regain remote logins. If I use '-v /dev/sda:/dev/sda' the login breakage doesn't happen, but still no listed processes that are doing IO.
no processes producing IO are listed when run in (privileged) docker container https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1291020
I am reassigning this to IOTOP to see if they have any insights. If -v/dev/sda:/dev/sda works that is fine, also. I think iotop is getting blocked by one or more of the namespaces. Did you try with the --pid=host?
(In reply to Daniel Walsh from comment #8) > I am reassigning this to IOTOP to see if they have any insights. > > If -v/dev/sda:/dev/sda works that is fine, also. -v /dev:/dev actually breaks the ability to remote login to the host and I have to reboot. If that's a bug, I'll start a new one. -v /dev/sda:/dev/sda doesn't break the host, but also doesn't make a difference in iotop's behavior. It still doesn't show any processes utilizing IO (except itself). > I think iotop is getting > blocked by one or more of the namespaces. Did you try with the --pid=host? Yes. No change in behavior.
Does docker run -v /dev/sda:/dev/sda --privileged --net=host --pid=host ... Work? This tool looks like it is examining the host network and perhaps processes based on this device.
Yes that does work. I suspect non-deterministic results though because now even without -v, and just --net=host --pid=host --privileged it also works which I had tried previously (albeit that was a different atomic tree version so kernel, docker, most things were different versions). I've got one other instance of a docker command affecting the behavior of the host (breaking ssh logins) until the next reboot. Between that and user error, the testing is challenging.
reboot # docker run --net=host --pid=host --privileged -it fedext iotop -d3 -o # docker run --net=host --pid=host --privileged -v /dev/sda:/dev/sda -it fedext iotop -d3 -o # docker run --net=host --pid=host --privileged=true -it fedext iotop -d3 -o # docker run --net=host --pid=host --privileged=true -v /dev/sda:/dev/sda -it fedext iotop -d3 -o None of those crash, but none show all processes. # docker run --net=host --pid=host -v /dev/sda:/dev/sda --privileged=true -it fedext /usr/sbin/iotop -d3 This one shows all processes. Why? Only the order of -v and --privileged differs. # docker run --net=host --pid=host --privileged=true -it fedext iotop -d3 So does this! Now I don't even need -v? # docker run --net=host --pid=host --privileged -it fedext iotop -d3 And now this works!!! This is the same first command that didn't work. If I reboot, this command no longer works (only iotop itself is shown as a process). Again, none of these crash.
I have no idea, the order of option handling should have no effect, they are all bundled up and sent to the docker daemon in the same bundle. Their might be some changes being made to the kernel with each run then end up allowing the final docker run to work. For the most part the only thing that is shared between all of these containers is the kernel. But I think we need people who know what iotop is doing to figure out what is happening.
ANy input from the IOTop guys?
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