From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Cc: passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] nstool: Split some command line parsing and socket setup to subcommands
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2023 20:35:32 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZC6gdHy5SpTABrOJ@yekko> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230406084748.5812c233@elisabeth>
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 08:47:48AM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 12:31:55 +1000
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 01:58:00PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > I didn't spot this earlier, but... does it really make sense to wait in
> > > cmd_pid(), also on ENOENT, rather than making 'hold' return only once
> > > the socket is ready?
> >
> > So, this is a consequence of the fact that the holder doesn't move
> > into the background itself - it just sits in the foreground until
> > terminated. That means that the typical usecase puts it into the
> > background from the shell with &, which in turn means that when we
> > reach the next shell command the socket may not be ready - or not even
> > created.
> >
> > One of the things I had in mind for a hypothetical "nstool unshare"
> > would be to avoid this and have it background itself once the socket
> > is ready.
>
> Ah, sure, it makes sense now.
>
> > > I don't think it would be outrageous to have
> > > 'nstool pid' failing if the holding process doesn't exist.
> > >
> > > Admittely, I'm biased by the few hundreds of times I needed to
> > > 'killall -9 nsholder' in the past months. :)
> >
> > So... I agree that's irritating, I've done it a similar number of
> > times. However, I don't think that's really related to the question
> > above - in my experience it's always been the holder process that's
> > hung around, not something waiting on a holder.
>
> Yes, same here, but it's something I file under the same category (I
> don't remember why nsholder would hang, you probably explained at some
> point...).
I believe the main reason is because of the holders which are PID 1
within their pid namespaces. That means that if you interrupt the
tests, the SIGINT or SIGHUP they'll get from tmux etc. shutting down
won't be sufficient to kill them.
>
> > > > rc = getsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PEERCRED,
> > > > &peercred, &optlen);
> > > > if (rc < 0)
> > > > - die("getsockopet(SO_PEERCRED): %s\n", strerror(errno));
> > > > + die("getsockopet(SO_PEERCRED) %s: %s\n",
> > > > + sockpath, strerror(errno));
> > > >
> > > > close(fd);
> > > >
> > > > printf("%d\n", peercred.pid);
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > -static void stop(int fd, const struct sockaddr_un *addr)
> > > > +static void cmd_stop(int argc, char *argv[])
> > > > {
> > > > - int rc;
> > > > + const char *sockpath = argv[1];
> > > > + int fd, rc;
> > > > char buf = 'Q';
> > > >
> > > > - rc = connect(fd, (struct sockaddr *)addr, sizeof(*addr));
> > > > - if (rc < 0)
> > > > - die("connect(): %s\n", strerror(errno));
> > > > + if (argc != 2)
> > > > + usage();
> > > > +
> > > > + fd = connect_ctl(sockpath, false);
> > > >
> > > > rc = write(fd, &buf, sizeof(buf));
> > >
> > > Unrelated: a compound literal would make this more readable.
> >
> > Uh.. I don't see where a compound literal would even go here.
>
> I meant:
>
> rc = write(fd, &(char){ 'Q' }, 1);
>
> ...so that one doesn't need to look at 'buf'. nstool is C99 anyway.
Oh, ok. On the other hand it means not using sizeof() to get the
length, which isn't ideal.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-06 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-04 1:46 [PATCH 00/14] Improved tool for testing across multiple namespaces David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 01/14] nstool: Rename nsholder to nstool David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 02/14] nstool: Reverse parameters " David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 03/14] nstool: Move description of its operation modes from comment to usage David Gibson
2023-04-05 11:56 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-04-06 0:10 ` David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 04/14] nstool: Split some command line parsing and socket setup to subcommands David Gibson
2023-04-05 11:58 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-04-06 2:31 ` David Gibson
2023-04-06 6:47 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-04-06 10:35 ` David Gibson [this message]
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 05/14] nstool: Replace "pid" subcommand with "info" subcommand David Gibson
2023-04-05 11:58 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-04-06 0:13 ` David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 06/14] nstool: Detect what namespaces target is in David Gibson
2023-04-05 11:58 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-04-06 0:15 ` David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 07/14] nstool: Add magic number to advertized information David Gibson
2023-04-05 11:58 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-04-06 0:18 ` David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 08/14] nstool: Helpers to iterate through namespace types David Gibson
2023-04-05 11:58 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-04-06 0:55 ` David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 09/14] nstool: Add nstool exec command to execute commands in an nstool namespace David Gibson
2023-04-05 11:58 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-04-06 0:59 ` David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 10/14] nstool: Add --keep-caps option to nstool exec David Gibson
2023-04-05 11:59 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-04-06 1:11 ` David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 11/14] test: Initialise ${TRACE} properly David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 12/14] test: Use "nstool exec" to slightly simplify tests David Gibson
2023-04-05 11:59 ` Stefano Brivio
2023-04-06 1:14 ` David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 13/14] nstool: Advertise the holder's cwd (in its mountns) across the socket David Gibson
2023-04-04 1:46 ` [PATCH 14/14] nstool: Enter holder's cwd when changing mount ns with nstool exec David Gibson
2023-04-05 12:01 ` [PATCH 00/14] Improved tool for testing across multiple namespaces Stefano Brivio
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