[pve-devel] [PATCH container v2] Move volume activation to vm_start

[Stoiko Ivanov]

currently all volumes for a container are activated in the pre-start hook,
which runs in a separate mount namespace (lxc.monitor.unshare is set to 1
in our container config). This leads to problems with ZFS:
* if a pool is imported by this call the filesystems are mounted only inside
  the containers mount namespace

by running the volume activation inside vm_start, right before starting the
container via systemctl the volume activation happens before the unshare.

The other site where a container is started via systemctl is in
'pve-container-stop-wrapper' when a container is rebooted from the inside:
By activating the volumes in 'lxc-pve-poststop-hook' we avoid to try starting
a container with an inactive volume (LVM, kRBD), occuring when having a
mp-addtion pending during such a reboot

Starting a container manually using lxc-start is usually done for obtaining
debug-logs (after starting failed with our tooling) - so the potential for
regression in that case should also be small.

The $loopdevlist variable is not used anywhere in our codebase since 2015
(da6298481ea4dfe7d894f42fa105cda015ebe5ce).

Signed-off-by: Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov at proxmox.com>
---
v1 -> v2:
* added the volume activation to lxc-pve-poststop-hook, after the great review
  from Fabian caught the case of container reboots (huge thanks!)
* decided to put it in lxc-pve-poststop-hook instead of
  pve-container-stop-wrapper, since this avoids pulling in quite a few parts
  of our code-base into the latter, which currently has no imports.
  AFAICU the only case where this could lead to a problem is if someone uses
  `touch /var/lib/lxc/$vmid/reboot && systemctl restart pve-container@$vmid`
  for rebooting containers


 src/PVE/LXC.pm            | 5 +++++
 src/lxc-pve-poststop-hook | 6 ++++++
 src/lxc-pve-prestart-hook | 5 -----
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/PVE/LXC.pm b/src/PVE/LXC.pm
index f3aca7a..db5b8ca 100644
--- a/src/PVE/LXC.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/LXC.pm
@@ -2186,6 +2186,11 @@ sub vm_start {
 	close($fh);
     }
 
+    my $storage_cfg = PVE::Storage::config();
+    my $vollist = PVE::LXC::Config->get_vm_volumes($conf);
+
+    PVE::Storage::activate_volumes($storage_cfg, $vollist);
+
     my $cmd = ['systemctl', 'start', "pve-container\@$vmid"];
 
     PVE::GuestHelpers::exec_hookscript($conf, $vmid, 'pre-start', 1);
diff --git a/src/lxc-pve-poststop-hook b/src/lxc-pve-poststop-hook
index 2683ae2..0fdd49e 100755
--- a/src/lxc-pve-poststop-hook
+++ b/src/lxc-pve-poststop-hook
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ PVE::LXC::Tools::lxc_hook('post-stop', 'lxc', sub {
 	open(my $fh, '>', "/var/lib/lxc/$vmid/reboot")
 	    or die "failed to create reboot trigger file: $!\n";
 	close($fh);
+
+	# activate all volumes of the container in case pending changes added
+	# a not yet activated volume
+	my $vollist = PVE::LXC::Config->get_vm_volumes($conf);
+	PVE::Storage::activate_volumes($storage_cfg, $vollist);
+
 	# cause lxc to stop instead of rebooting
 	exit(1);
     }
diff --git a/src/lxc-pve-prestart-hook b/src/lxc-pve-prestart-hook
index ed25aa4..8823cad 100755
--- a/src/lxc-pve-prestart-hook
+++ b/src/lxc-pve-prestart-hook
@@ -38,11 +38,6 @@ PVE::LXC::Tools::lxc_hook('pre-start', 'lxc', sub {
 
     my $storage_cfg = PVE::Storage::config();
 
-    my $vollist = PVE::LXC::Config->get_vm_volumes($conf);
-    my $loopdevlist = PVE::LXC::Config->get_vm_volumes($conf, 'rootfs');
-
-    PVE::Storage::activate_volumes($storage_cfg, $vollist);
-
     my $rootdir = $vars->{ROOTFS_PATH};
 
     # Delete any leftover reboot-trigger file
-- 
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