fix: four defects that block adopting a live LINSTOR cluster - #183
fix: four defects that block adopting a live LINSTOR cluster#183Andrei Kvapil (kvaps) wants to merge 7 commits into
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The peer authentication secret reaches the config writer as the plain DrbdOptions/Net/shared-secret property — the only form LINSTOR stores, so it is what linstor-migrate carries over, and it is also what our own drbd-passphrase endpoint writes. That path emitted the value verbatim, while the typed SharedSecret field quoted it. LINSTOR generates the secret in base64, so it routinely contains '+', '/' or '=', which drbdadm's parser rejects unquoted. Every resource on the node then fails to apply: drbd.d/<res>.res:4: Parse error: ';' expected, but got 'k6fjase…' Quote the property the same way, and let the typed field win when a resource carries the secret both ways, so drbdadm never sees the key twice. Every other net option keeps its bare-word value. Assisted-By: Claude Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
HasMD treats every non-zero `drbdadm dump-md` exit as "this volume has no metadata". A config-level failure is not that: dump-md never reached the disk, so it learned nothing about what is on it. The caller's next move on a false negative is `create-md --force`, which destroys the metadata of a volume that is full of data — so the one direction this probe must never fail is open. Found during a LINSTOR->blockstor migration. An unquoted shared secret made every generated .res unparseable, HasMD reported "no metadata" for 28 live volumes, and the reconciler dispatched create-md on all of them. Nothing was lost only because create-md tripped over the very same parse error a moment later. The guard had already failed; ordering saved it. Surface the error for an unparseable config so the caller aborts. Left deliberately narrow: only a parse failure is reclassified, so genuinely fresh volumes still initialise on the existing "No valid meta data found" path. A wider allow-list would be more principled but risks stalling creation on a drbdmeta phrasing we have not seen. Assisted-By: Claude Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
The converter latched Initialized on every resource definition, on the reasoning that the volumes already hold committed data in the source cluster. That holds only for definitions whose replicas actually come across. The latch does more than mark data as present: it also suppresses the auto-primary election that seeds a first sync. On a definition whose every replica was skipped there is nothing to adopt, so once the controller places fresh replicas from the resource group's placeCount they sit Inconsistent on every node with no way out — no replica holds the data, and none is allowed to become the source. Observed on a live migration: a definition whose only LINSTOR replica was a tie-breaker flagged DELETE arrived Initialized and stranded three newly placed replicas. Latch it only when a replica survives conversion, and report the definitions left unlatched. The check mirrors convertResources' own skip rules but deliberately ignores the per-replica pool-divergence case: counting a doubtful replica keeps the latch on, which is the safe direction. Dropping it where data does exist would let a blank replica win the auto-primary election and sync itself over the real one. Assisted-By: Claude Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
LINSTOR allows a pool to be declared thick ZFS while StorDriver/ZfscreateOptions carries `-s`, so every zvol is created sparse: thick by declaration, thin in practice, and happily oversubscribed. Blockstor cannot express that. Its thick ZFS provider reserves each volume's full size and applies the rule to volumes it adopts as readily as to ones it creates, so migrating such a pool as ZFS retroactively converts every volume to thick. The pool fills up during adoption and whatever no longer fits cannot be adopted at all — on the cluster this was found on, one node went from 238G free to 8.63G before a 50G volume had nowhere left to go. Map the pool to ZFS_THIN instead, so the volumes keep the provisioning they actually have, and report the remap. The declared kind changes, which is the cost; honouring the declaration instead silently changes the capacity model of a running cluster, which is worse. No props are synthesised: the satellite already resolves a migrated ZFS pool's name through StorDriver/StorPoolName, which is the only key a real LINSTOR dump carries. `-s` is matched as a flag, not a substring, so an unrelated option that merely contains those characters does not flip the kind. Assisted-By: Claude Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR updates DRBD shared-secret serialization and metadata probing. It also updates LINSTOR migration conversion for sparse ZFS pools, convertible resource definitions, and replica initialization state. ChangesDRBD handling
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A definition with no volume definitions cannot become a usable volume: there is no size and no DRBD minor to allocate. Migrating one anyway still gives the controller something to place replicas for, so it allocates a port and a full set of Resources, and the satellite then spins on "waiting for controller-side DRBD-ID allocation" forever — no .res file, no backing device, a hot reconcile loop, and replicas the CLI can only report as Unknown. LINSTOR leaves such definitions behind. The production dump this was found in carried exactly one, out of 34: zero volumes, and its only replica already flagged DELETE. It was also the only resource on the migrated cluster that never came up. Skip it and say so. An operator who genuinely wanted an empty definition can recreate it in one command; a wedged reconcile loop is the worse outcome, and dropping the definition takes its replicas with it rather than leaving them dangling. The three row-level guards move into an rdConvertible predicate, which keeps convertResourceDefinitions inside the length limit and puts the reasons a definition is rejected in one place. Assisted-By: Claude Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
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Reviewed at 4a2499ce against merge-base a441ca83, so the diff is exactly the delta. Four data-integrity fixes surfaced by a live LINSTOR to blockstor migration, each with a regression test I confirmed is non-vacuous (reverting each fix to its pre-fix shape reddens exactly its own test), and go build / go vet / go test ./pkg/drbd/ ./pkg/linstormigrate/ are all green.
The direction of all four fixes is right and the shared-secret fix is complete. But two of them are incomplete in ways that introduce a new failure mode on the very migration scenarios they target, and the HasMD fix leaves the guard's default at the unsafe posture. Details below with the corrected shape for each. These are worth another round before merge.
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[MAJOR] pkg/drbd/drbdadm.go:245-256: HasMD still fails OPEN by default; the fix closes one string, not the class. The new branch correctly reclassifies Parse error as fail-closed, and both callers honor it (pkg/satellite/reconciler.go:3544 and :3734 return on probeErr before touching the disk). But the fallthrough at line 256 still returns (false, nil) for every other non-zero dump-md exit, and on hasMD=false the caller runs create-md --force (pkg/drbd/drbdadm.go:188-189), which is documented as metadata-destroying. Any dump-md failure outside the two allowlisted string families still routes a data-bearing volume into a forced re-init: a dump-md OOM-killed or fork-failed under memory pressure ("signal: killed" / "cannot allocate memory"), a drbdmeta lock-file contention, a transient EIO on the lower disk. These are worse than the parse-error case the PR fixes, because nothing downstream trips over the same failure: memory frees or the lock clears a moment later, create-md --force succeeds, and it wipes the GI tuple and dirty bitmap of a healthy replica. The PR's own comment (line 238) states the invariant correctly: fail-open "is the one direction a safety probe must never fail." The robust shape for a probe guarding --force is the inverse of what is written: return (false, nil) ONLY on the definitive metadata-absent markers (No valid meta data found, the drbdmeta missing-image text named at line 252) and surface an error for everything unrecognized. As written the function stacks three string allowlists on a fail-open default. (The strings.Contains(string(out), "Parse error") half is dead: drbdadm emits the parse error on stderr, which RealExec folds into the wrapped error, not into out. Harmless, but it confirms only the errStr arm ever fires.)
[MAJOR] pkg/linstormigrate/convert.go:722-742 (rdHasAdoptedReplica): clearing Initialized treats "replica DELETE-flagged" and "replica's host node not migrated" identically, and the second case is the direction the function's own comment forbids. The helper skips replicas for two reasons: DELETE flag (line 730) and !c.convertedNode[row.NodeName] (line 734). convertedNode is false for a node that is absent from the dump, has an unknown node_type (:361-364), or is a CONTROLLER node (:367-371), all reachable, and the codebase itself names "an incomplete dump" as a real input (:597). When every replica is skipped, :636 emits Initialized: ptr(false) and the RD converts as fresh: blockstor places new replicas, runs the auto-primary election, and seeds a blank first sync. For the DELETE case that is correct (the data was being discarded). For the unmigrated-node case the data still exists on that node's disk, and the function's own comment says exactly this must not happen: "Dropping the latch where data does exist would let a blank replica win the auto-primary election and sync itself over the real one" (:719-721). Failure sequence: operator runs a staged migration whose dump omits one node; an RD whose only replicas live there converts with Initialized=false; blockstor seeds a blank volume and auto-primaries it; the operator later brings the missing node in and re-adds its replica, which becomes SyncTarget of the blank set and overwrites the real data. The overwrite end-state is reasoned from the PR's own description of what the latch suppresses, not executed here, so treat the mechanism as verified and the final overwrite as high-confidence-but-unreproduced. Corrected shape: unlatch only when every replica was DELETE-flagged; when replicas were dropped for node reasons, keep the latch ON (data exists) and warn that the definition is incomplete. The pool-divergence skip already got this conservative treatment; the node skip should match it.
[MAJOR] pkg/linstormigrate/convert.go:487-495: remapping a sparse pool to ZFS_THIN desyncs it from the ResourceGroup provider allow-list that gates placement, so new provisioning silently dies. The remap changes the pool's ProviderKind to ZFS_THIN, but convertResourceGroups copies the source RG's allowed_provider_list verbatim into SelectFilter.ProviderList (:541), and the placer hard-filters on it with an exact match: pkg/placer/placer.go:1301 drops any pool whose ProviderKind is not in filter.ProviderList (ZFS_THIN is not ZFS, and this filter is exact slices.Contains, not the kind-mixing gate). A cluster that deliberately ran thick-declared sparse ZFS is exactly the kind that may pin allowed_provider_list = ["ZFS"] on its RGs. After migration every pool that RG can use is ZFS_THIN, so the placer finds zero eligible pools: new volumes spawned from the RG never place, and even the adopted volumes lose redundancy-healing (a replica re-placement after a node loss uses the same filter). Adoption succeeds; provisioning is silently dead until the operator edits the RG. Corrected shape: when a pool is remapped from ZFS to ZFS_THIN, also rewrite ZFS to ZFS_THIN in every RG ProviderList that references it (or at least warn). What would change my mind on the severity: if the target dumps carry an empty allowed_provider_list (the LINSTOR default), the filter is inert and this drops to latent. The fix is cheap and correct either way.
[MINOR] pkg/linstormigrate/convert.go:722-742 + :611-614: the mirror can also err the other way: an RD whose only replica is pool-divergent gets rdHasAdoptedReplica == true (the divergence check is deliberately omitted), so Initialized latches and the "no replica is being migrated" warning is suppressed, yet convertResources skips that replica (:857-861) and emits zero blockstor Resources. If the operator does not resolve the divergence and the controller later places fresh replicas, Initialized=true suppresses auto-primary and they sit Inconsistent forever, the deadlock fix #3 removes, reached via the divergence path. The conservative latch direction is defensible, but the operator should be told the definition landed replica-less-and-latched rather than have the warning suppressed.
[MINOR] pkg/linstormigrate/convert.go:695-711 (rdHasVolumeDefinitions): the skip reason is misstated for an RD whose volume definitions all carry the DELETE flag. Line 703 treats DELETE-flagged VDs as absent, so such an RD is skipped with "no volume definitions — skipped" (:670) even though volume definitions exist. And because rdConvertible returns false before volumeDefinitionsFor is ever reached, the per-volume "marked DELETE — skipped" lines (:794) never surface for exactly these RDs, so the comment's justification ("calling it here would double up", :693-694) does not hold for the skipped path. Diagnostic only, not data-affecting: the operator sees a wrong reason and loses the per-volume trail.
[NIT] pkg/drbd/conffile.go:282: %q is Go quoting, not drbd quoting. A base64 LINSTOR secret (the migration case) is safe: its alphabet has nothing %q escapes. But a secret set through the REST passphrase endpoint (pkg/rest/drbd_passphrase.go, which validates only non-emptiness) containing ", \, a newline, or a non-ASCII byte renders as a Go escape sequence drbdadm's lexer does not decode identically, so the effective kernel secret diverges from the stored one or the file fails to parse. Pre-existing for the typed field; this PR extends the same %q to the production property path. Worth an input validation on the endpoint eventually.
Areas checked and found sound
- shared-secret quoting + dedup (
pkg/drbd/conffile.go:268-289): the typed field wins and is emitted once quoted; an option-pathshared-secretis quoted and de-duplicated; every other net option stays bare. Non-vacuity: reverting the option-path%qto%sreddensTestBuildQuotesSharedSecretFromNetOptions;TestBuildEmitsSharedSecretOncecovers the dedup. Bare options (after-sb-0pri,timeout) correctly stay unquoted. This fix is complete. - HasMD parse-error path is wired end-to-end (both reconciler callers and
metadata_created_backfill.go:155abort onprobeErr). Non-vacuity: removing the branch reddensTestHasMDFailsClosedOnUnparseableConfig. The gap above is the residual default, not this branch. - Initialized latch, safe direction: latch-off while a real adopted replica exists is unreachable:
rdHasAdoptedReplicais a superset ofconvertResources' keep-set in the critical direction.rdHasVolumeDefinitionsfaithfully mirrorsvolumeDefinitionsFor's filters, and a skipped RD (!convertedRD) correctly drops its orphan replicas at:839. Evaluation order is sound:convertedNodeis fully populated beforeconvertResourceDefinitionsruns. Non-vacuity: revertingptr(adopted)toptr(true)reddensTestInitializedLatchNeedsAnAdoptedReplica.Initialized: ptr(false)and nil are equivalent downstream (pkg/dispatcher/dispatcher.go:675-677). - sparse detection (
createsSparseZvols,:454-461):-smatched as a whitespace-split field, not a substring, so-o volmode=-staticdoes not flip the kind and an LVM pool is excluded by the driver guard. Non-vacuity: disabling the remap reddensTestSparseZfsPoolMigratesAsThin. One open question left as a caveat: the detector reads only the pool-scoped props bag, so aStorDriver/ZfscreateOptionsinherited from LINSTOR controller/node scope would be missed and the pool would migrate as thick. Worth confirming against the LINSTOR property-level-fallback rules whether that key can be set above pool scope. ZFS_THINis a legalProviderKind(api/v1alpha1/storagepool_types.go) with a real thin provider;go build/go vet/go teston both packages: clean.
Three findings, each the same shape: the previous fix closed the case that had been observed rather than the class it belongs to. HasMD reclassified `Parse error` and left every other non-zero dump-md exit answering "no metadata". That default is the dangerous one: on hasMD=false the caller runs `create-md --force`. A dump-md OOM-killed under memory pressure, blocked on a drbdmeta lock, or hitting a transient EIO is worse than the unparseable config it was fixed for, because nothing downstream trips over the same failure a moment later — the pressure passes, create-md succeeds, and a healthy replica loses its GI tuple and dirty bitmap. The probe now answers "absent" only for the markers that say so positively and surfaces everything else. The cost is a fresh volume stalling on an unrecognised phrasing, which an operator can see and act on. The Initialized latch treated "replica flagged DELETE" and "replica's host node not migrated" as the same thing. Only the first means the data is gone. A node missing from the dump — staged migration, unknown node_type, a CONTROLLER node — still has the data on its disk, and unlatching there is exactly what the latch exists to prevent: fresh replicas, an auto-primary election, a blank first sync, and the real replica becoming SyncTarget of the blank set when that node is brought in. The two reasons are now distinguished, and a definition held back by an absent node keeps the latch and says so. Remapping a sparse pool to ZFS_THIN left the resource groups pinned to ZFS. The placer filters candidates on that allow-list with an exact match, so every pool the group could use became ineligible: adoption succeeds, and then nothing new places and no lost replica heals, until someone edits the group. The list now learns the new kind. ZFS_THIN is added rather than substituted, because a cluster may hold both a remapped pool and a genuinely thick one. Two diagnostics with it. A definition whose every replica is pool-divergent lands latched and replica-less; it used to say nothing. And a definition whose volume definitions are all DELETE-flagged was reported as having none, with the per-volume trail suppressed by the early return. Each fix has a test verified to fail without it. The golden report gains exactly one line: the divergence warning for the fixture's pvc-vol7, which was silently latched before. Assisted-By: Claude Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
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In `@pkg/linstormigrate/convert.go`:
- Around line 818-832: Update the replica-state handling around
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Correct the mixed absent-node and divergent-replica state.
If one replica is pool-divergent and another is on an unmigrated node, onlyDivergent remains true. The switch then emits only the divergence warning and hides the unmigrated-node condition. Clear onlyDivergent for an absent-node replica, and do not set it after an absent-node replica was found. Add a mixed-replica test.
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In `@pkg/linstormigrate/convert.go` around lines 818 - 832, Update the
replica-state handling around replicaPoolDivergence so an absent-node replica
clears onlyDivergent and prevents later divergent replicas from setting it
again; preserve adopted state as needed. Add a test covering one pool-divergent
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reports the absent-node condition rather than only the divergence warning.
Failing closed on every unrecognised dump-md exit stranded all four snapshot-derived e2e paths: clone, ship, restore and the ZFS clone-source delete. A lower disk materialised from a ZFS snapshot carries the source's superblock with an activity log the snapshot caught mid-flight, so dump-md refuses it with `Found meta data is "unclean", please apply-al first` rather than reporting metadata absent. The probe surfaced that as an inconclusive failure, the resource never attached, and the reconciler toggled the disk until the scenario timed out. That exit is deterministic and fully understood, not the transient class the strict direction guards against, so it joins the positively recognised vocabulary and the caller re-initialises the volume as it always did. Unknown failures still fail closed. Whether a legitimate replica returning with a dirty activity log should instead be repaired with `drbdadm apply-al` is a separate question that changes activation behaviour and needs its own e2e coverage. Assisted-By: Claude Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
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Do not classify please apply-al as metadata absence for every resource.
HasMD maps please apply-al to false, nil. The diskless→diskful branch calls ensureMetadata without checking SourceSnapshot, including for non-snapshot replicas. ensureMetadata then calls createMDWithCollisionRecovery, which runs create-md --force and can replace the replica's recovery metadata before apply-al runs.
Restrict this result to snapshot-derived migration volumes, or return a distinct state so normal replicas use apply-al.
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In `@pkg/drbd/drbdadm.go` around lines 298 - 300, Restrict the “please apply-al”
metadata-unusable handling in HasMD to snapshot-derived migration volumes by
checking SourceSnapshot before treating it as metadata absence. Ensure the
diskless→diskful path and ensureMetadata preserve apply-al for normal replicas,
preventing createMDWithCollisionRecovery from replacing their recovery metadata.
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Four defects surfaced while migrating a live LINSTOR cluster — 41 volumes across 3 nodes, all of it real data — onto Blockstor. Each is a separate commit with a test proven to fail before the fix and pass after. The two converter fixes were additionally replayed against that cluster's own dump.
shared-secretis emitted unquotedwriteNetprints the typedNet.SharedSecretfield with%q, but every other net option with%s. That typed field is only ever populated fromSharedSecretRef. The secret LINSTOR stores — and therefore the onelinstor-migratecarries over, and the one our own drbd-passphrase endpoint writes — arrives as the plainDrbdOptions/Net/shared-secretproperty and takes the unquoted path. LINSTOR generates it in base64, so it routinely contains+,/or=:Every resource on the node then fails to apply. Quoting is the only remedy — drbdadm rejects a bare alphanumeric secret just as firmly, so rewriting the value does not help. Blanket-quoting the options map would be wrong in the other direction:
after-sb-0pri discard-zero-changesandtimeout 60must stay bare, whichTestBuildEmitsArbitraryNetOptionspins.This is not only a migration bug. Any LINSTOR-compatible client that sets a shared secret through our REST API hits it.
HasMDfails openHasMDis the guard that decides whether the satellite runscreate-md, and it treats every non-zerodrbdadm dump-mdexit as "this volume has no metadata". A config-level failure is not that: dump-md never reached the disk, so it learned nothing about what is on it. The caller's next move on a false negative iscreate-md --force, which destroys the metadata of a volume full of data.On the migrated cluster this fired for real.
HasMDreported "no metadata" for 28 live volumes and the reconciler dispatched create-md on all of them. Nothing was lost only because create-md tripped over the same parse error a moment later. The guard had already failed; ordering saved the data.The fix is deliberately narrow — only a parse failure is reclassified, so genuinely fresh volumes still initialise through the existing "No valid meta data found" path.
Initializedis latched on definitions with no adopted replicaThe converter latched
Initializedon every resource definition, reasoning that the volumes already hold committed data in the source cluster. That holds only for definitions whose replicas actually come across.The latch also suppresses the auto-primary election that seeds a first sync. On a definition whose every replica was skipped — one whose only LINSTOR replica was a tie-breaker flagged DELETE, say — there is nothing to adopt, so once the controller places fresh replicas from the resource group's
placeCountthey sitInconsistenton every node with no way out: no replica holds the data, and none is allowed to become the source. Three volumes deadlocked exactly this way; clearing the latch on them started the sync immediately.The check is conservative by design. It ignores the per-replica pool-divergence skip, so a doubtful replica keeps the latch ON — dropping it where data does exist would let a blank replica win the auto-primary election and sync itself over the real one.
A sparse ZFS pool is carried over as thick
LINSTOR allows a pool to be declared thick ZFS while
StorDriver/ZfscreateOptionscarries-s, so every zvol is created sparse: thick by declaration, thin in practice, and happily oversubscribed.Blockstor cannot express that. The thick ZFS provider reserves each volume's full size and applies the rule to volumes it adopts as readily as to ones it creates, so migrating such a pool as
ZFSretroactively converts every volume to thick. The pool fills up during adoption and whatever no longer fits cannot be adopted at all. On this cluster one node went from 238G free to 8.63G before a 50G volume had nowhere left to go.Mapping the pool to
ZFS_THINkeeps the provisioning the volumes actually have. The declared kind changes, which is the cost; honouring the declaration instead silently changes the capacity model of a running cluster, which is worse. No props are synthesised — the satellite already resolves a migrated ZFS pool's name throughStorDriver/StorPoolName, the only key a real LINSTOR dump carries.-sis matched as a flag rather than a substring, so an unrelated option containing those characters does not flip the kind.Only ZFS is affected: LVM's thin provisioning is a separate driver over a thin pool, not a create-time flag.
Testing
Every fix has a test verified to fail on the unfixed code and pass on the fix.
go test ./pkg/drbd/ ./pkg/linstormigrate/is green, the module builds, andgolangci-lint runreports 0 issues on both packages.Both renderer fixes were verified on the live cluster: a satellite built from this branch produced
shared-secret "+k6fjase…";, the parse errors stopped accumulating (counted over a 60s window on all three nodes), andcreate-mddisappeared from the reconciler entirely — with a parseable configHasMDreaches the disk, finds the metadata, and adoption skips creation, which is the path working as designed.Re-running the converter over that cluster's dump changes exactly ten lines against the manifest the old code produced: three pools move to
ZFS_THIN, and the two definitions whose only replicas were DELETE-flagged tie-breakers lose theInitializedlatch. Both are precisely the states that broke the migration.The cluster finished on Blockstor with every volume
UpToDate, no resync of adopted data, and no satellite or controller errors.Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Migration Improvements