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Bug 1974184

Summary: mdadm uses KillMode=none in service file which are not safe and deprecated
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Frank Liang <xiliang>
Component: mdadmAssignee: XiaoNi <xni>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fine Fan <ffan>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 9.0CC: cwei, dledford, gary.buhrmaster, leiwang, linl, ncroxon, vkuznets, ymao
Target Milestone: betaKeywords: Triaged
Target Release: 9.1Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: mdadm-4.2-3.el9 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Description Frank Liang 2021-06-21 05:54:46 UTC
Description of problem:
In RHEL-9, mdmon@.service and  mdadm-grow-continue@.service use deprecated "KillMode=none" which is unsafe.

[root@localhost ~]# systemd-analyze verify mdmon@.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdmon@.service:28: Unit configured to use KillMode=none. This is unsafe, as it disables systemd's process lifecycle management for the service. Please update your service to use a safer KillMode=, such as 'mixed' or 'control-group'. Support for KillMode=none is deprecated and will eventually be removed.
[root@localhost ~]# systemd-analyze verify mdadm-grow-continue@.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdadm-grow-continue@.service:17: Unit configured to use KillMode=none. This is unsafe, as it disables systemd's process lifecycle management for the service. Please update your service to use a safer KillMode=, such as 'mixed' or 'control-group'. Support for KillMode=none is deprecated and will eventually be removed.
[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qf /usr/lib/systemd/system/mdadm-grow-continue@.service
mdadm-4.1-7.el9.x86_64

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

RHEL Version:
RHEL-9.0(5.13.0-0.rc4.33.el9.x86_64)

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start a RHEL-9 with mdadm installed
2. run 'systemd-analyze verify mdmon@.service mdadm-grow-continue@.service' after boot up

Actual results:
KillMode=none is unsafe

Expected results:
Changed it to other supported safe mode

Additional info:
N/A

Comment 2 XiaoNi 2021-11-19 02:05:01 UTC
Hi Frank

I searched the usage of KillMode in systemd. Now it's set none which means no process is killed. But when I run
systemctl stop mdmonitor, the monitor process exit too. So I'm confused. Could you explain about this?

Thanks
Xiao

Comment 3 XiaoNi 2021-11-19 07:35:42 UTC
Please ignore my last comment. It's mdmon service rather than mdmonitor service.

Comment 13 Fine Fan 2022-06-07 10:34:06 UTC
No new issue found on mdadm-4.2-3.el9.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 11:19:13 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 (mdadm bug fix and enhancement update), 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:8338