Fix: relayd: compare viewer chunks by ID rather than address
authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Thu, 18 Nov 2021 15:37:29 +0000 (10:37 -0500)
committerJérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Fri, 17 Dec 2021 05:31:09 +0000 (00:31 -0500)
commit17cb7bac747514bcf1bd95f0a3d20b59e02777e6
tree393c2863d7af54de1ff70a3e347a013a1bd4a51d
parent04a9f8a8ea6906652fc4a5b99d6bf05649d67660
Fix: relayd: compare viewer chunks by ID rather than address

Observed issue
==============

In "Fix: relayd: live: erroneous message timestamp observed from live
viewer", we observe that sometimes viewer streams unexpectedly end up
performing a viewer stream rotation at session destroy.

Cause
=====

This may happen in the following scenario:

  1) Relay stream A is rotated to NULL.

  2) viewer_get_next_index for viewer stream A:
  2.1) observes a NULL rstream->trace_chunk, updates the viewer session
       current trace chunk to NULL (viewer_session_set_trace_chunk_copy).
  2.2) "Transition the viewer stream into the latest trace chunk
       available." does not issue viewer_stream_rotate_to_trace_chunk, because
       the condition (rstream->completed_rotation_count ==
       vstream->last_seen_rotation_count + 1 && !rstream->trace_chunk)
       evaluates to "true", and thus the entire if () evaluates to false.

  3) check_index_status detects rstream->closed and
     index_received_seqcount == index_sent_seqcount, thus replying HUP to
     viewer, effectively releasing ownership of the viewer stream.

  4) viewer_get_next_index for viewer stream B (not rotated to NULL yet):
  4.1) observes a non-NULL rstream->trace_chunk, updates the viewer
       session current trace chunk to *a new copy* of the non-NULL
       rstream->trace_chunk (viewer_session_set_trace_chunk_copy).
  4.2) the comparison (conn->viewer_session->current_trace_chunk !=
       vstream->stream_file.trace_chunk) done by pointer don't match, because
       the viewer session current trace chunk is a new copy.

Therefore, due to those stream close scenarios where the viewer session
can go back and forth between NULL and _different copies_ of the relay
chunk, we cannot use a comparison of chunks by address on the viewer
chunks.

Solution
========

Compare the viewer stream chunks by ID rather than address.

Known drawbacks
===============

The comparison is probably slightly slower, but I don't expect this to
be significant.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Change-Id: I05e4f97f26b2659c007726cc29d3edafa17bdb98
src/bin/lttng-relayd/live.c
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