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Bug 1376542 - RHSA-2016-1756 breaks migration of instances
Summary: RHSA-2016-1756 breaks migration of instances
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: qemu-kvm
Version: 7.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
urgent
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Stefan Hajnoczi
QA Contact: huiqingding
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1372763
Blocks: 1371943 1374364 1374365 1374366 1374367 1374368 1374369 1374623 1380306
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Reported: 2016-09-15 16:26 UTC by Stefan Hajnoczi
Modified: 2021-08-30 12:10 UTC (History)
31 users (show)

Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-1.5.3-126.el7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
The fix for CVE-2016-5403 caused migrating guest instances to fail with a "Virtqueue size exceeded" error message. With this update, the value of the virtualization queue is recalculated after the migration, and the described problem no longer occurs.
Clone Of: 1372763
: 1380306 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-11-03 20:03:09 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 2598111 0 None None None 2016-09-15 16:26:33 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2585 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2016-11-03 12:09:03 UTC

Comment 2 Stefan Hajnoczi 2016-09-16 08:50:45 UTC 
Please verify as follows:

Create a 4 MB (!) LVM volume on the host.  I have called it /dev/testvg/testlv.

Now create qcow2 metadata on the LVM volume:

$ sudo qemu-img create -f qcow2 /dev/testvg/testlv 10G

(The reason for using an LVM volume instead of a regular file is that its size is fixed.  Since the LVM volume cannot grow automatically we can cause ENOSPC to happen when the guest writes to it.)

shell1$ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -cpu host -drive if=virtio,cache=none,format=raw,file=rhel72.img -drive if=virtio,cache=none,format=qcow2,file=/dev/testvg/testlv,werror=stop

guest# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/vdb oflag=direct bs=4k

The guest should be paused almost immediately because /dev/testvg/testlv runs out of space and returns an ENOSPC write error.

Now launch the destination QEMU for live migration (on the same host):

shell2$ sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -cpu host -drive if=virtio,cache=none,format=raw,file=rhel72.img -drive if=virtio,cache=none,format=qcow2,file=/dev/testvg/testlv,werror=stop -incoming tcp::1234
(qemu1) migrate tcp:127.0.0.1:1234

After migration has completed the guest is still paused.  Let's grow the LVM volume so the failed write request can be retried:

$ sudo lvresize -L +4M /dev/testvg/testlv
(qemu2) c

Expected behavior:
Guest resumes successfully when the 'c' monitor command is issued on destination
QEMU.  Note that it will probably pause again very soon because the LVM volume runs out of space again.

Actual behavior:
"Virtqueue size exceeded" error from destination QEMU and guest is terminated
after the 'c' monitor command is issued.
Comment 4 Miroslav Rezanina 2016-09-20 16:03:10 UTC 
Fix included in qemu-kvm-1.5.3-126.el7
Comment 6 huiqingding 2016-09-21 03:21:58 UTC 
Reproduce this bug using the following version:
kernel-3.10.0-509.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-125.el7.x86_64

Do the test as comment #2, the detailed steps as bz1372763 comment #11. After migration and type "c" in destination qemu-kvm, guest cannot resume and destination qemu-kvm quits with error "Virtqueue size exceeded".


Verify this bug using the following version:
kernel-3.10.0-509.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.5.3-126.el7.x86_64

Do the test as comment #2, the detailed steps as bz1372763 comment #11.  After migration and type "c" in destination qemu-kvm, guest can resume normally and guest is paused with io-error.
Comment 7 huiqingding 2016-09-21 03:23:05 UTC 
Based on comment 6, set this bug to be verified.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 20:03:09 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2585.html
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 21:51:55 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2585.html
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