Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] migration: fix crash in when incoming client channel setup fails

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Daniel P. Berrangé (address@hidden) wrote:
> The way we determine if we can start the incoming migration was
> changed to use migration_has_all_channels() in:
> 
>   commit 428d89084c709e568f9cd301c2f6416a54c53d6d
>   Author: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
>   Date:   Mon Jul 24 13:06:25 2017 +0200
> 
>     migration: Create migration_has_all_channels
> 
> This method in turn calls multifd_recv_all_channels_created()
> which is hardcoded to always return 'true' when multifd is
> not in use. This is a latent bug...
> 
> ...activated in in a following commit where that return result
> ends up acting as the flag to indicate whether it is possible
> to start processing the migration:
> 
>   commit 36c2f8be2c4eb0003ac77a14910842b7ddd7337e
>   Author: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
>   Date:   Wed Mar 7 08:40:52 2018 +0100
> 
>     migration: Delay start of migration main routines
> 
> This means that if channel initialization fails with normal
> migration, it'll never notice and attempt to start the
> incoming migration regardless and crash on a NULL pointer.
> 
> This can be seen, for example, if a client connects to a server
> requiring TLS, but has an invalid x509 certificate:
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64: The certificate hasn't got a known issuer
> qemu-system-x86_64: migration/migration.c:386: process_incoming_migration_co: 
> Assertion `mis->from_src_file' failed.
> 
>  #0  0x00007fffebd24f2b in raise () at /lib64/libc.so.6
>  #1  0x00007fffebd0f561 in abort () at /lib64/libc.so.6
>  #2  0x00007fffebd0f431 in _nl_load_domain.cold.0 () at /lib64/libc.so.6
>  #3  0x00007fffebd1d692 in  () at /lib64/libc.so.6
>  #4  0x0000555555ad027e in process_incoming_migration_co (opaque=<optimized 
> out>) at migration/migration.c:386
>  #5  0x0000555555c45e8b in coroutine_trampoline (i0=<optimized out>, 
> i1=<optimized out>) at util/coroutine-ucontext.c:116
>  #6  0x00007fffebd3a6a0 in __start_context () at /lib64/libc.so.6
>  #7  0x0000000000000000 in  ()
> 
> To handle the non-multifd case, we check whether mis->from_src_file
> is non-NULL. With this in place, the migration server drops the
> rejected client and stays around waiting for another, hopefully
> valid, client to arrive.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>

Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>

> ---
> 
> Changed in v2:
> 
>  - Clarify exactly when it broke
>  - Clarify that we expect the server to stay active
> 
>  migration/migration.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c
> index e1eaa97df4..38ad818b23 100644
> --- a/migration/migration.c
> +++ b/migration/migration.c
> @@ -518,11 +518,12 @@ void migration_ioc_process_incoming(QIOChannel *ioc)
>   */
>  bool migration_has_all_channels(void)
>  {
> +    MigrationIncomingState *mis = migration_incoming_get_current();
>      bool all_channels;
>  
>      all_channels = multifd_recv_all_channels_created();
>  
> -    return all_channels;
> +    return all_channels && mis->from_src_file != NULL;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> -- 
> 2.17.0
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK