From: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>,
Proxmox VE development discussion <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH manager] get_included_guests: handle non-existing guests
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 08:25:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e8809683-dee3-0539-119c-249eb966e933@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a6f8e5a-972d-166c-dafc-ccdd049226f7@proxmox.com>
On 10/19/20 2:38 PM, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> (FYI: forgot to hit reply-all, so resending this for the list)
>
> On 19.10.20 12:53, Fabian Ebner wrote:
>> If a guest is removed without purge, the ID will remain
>> in the backup configuration. Avoid using the variable $node
>> when it is potentially undefined. Instead, skip non-existing
>> guests and warn the user.
>>
>> Reported here:
>> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/purge-backup-does-not-remove-vm-from-datacenter-backup-list.77609/
>
> a backup job referencing to an non-existent VM must fail, that's by design.
Well, it currently doesn't; in fact no task is being run for such guests
(123 doesn't exists, 124 is on a different node in this example):
root@rob1 ~ # vzdump 121 123 124 --storage myfs --mode snapshot --remove
1
Use of uninitialized value $node in hash element at
/usr/share/perl5/PVE/VZDump.pm line 1221.
INFO: starting new backup job: vzdump 121 123 124 --storage myfs --mode
snapshot --remove 1
INFO: skip external VMs: 124, 123
INFO: Starting Backup of VM 121 (qemu)
---8<---
The reason is that a missing guest ID is assigned to the $vmids_per_node
hash with key equal to undef, which causes the hash to look like:
$VAR1 = {
'' => [
123
],
'rob2' => [
124
],
'rob1' => [
121
]
};
and then back in the vzdump API call, it lands in the $skiplist. So
there is no backup task run for missing guest IDs.
> People should either use purge, if they really want to purge a VM, or else
> remove it manually from the job.
>
> It's just important that the backup of the remaining, existing, VMs is made
> nonetheless, but the job is not successful, as it was asked to backup
> something that does not exists - making such errors less prominent is not
> ideal.
>
With the patch we at least get a warning with the real problem and avoid
using an undefined hash key. But sure, I'll work out a v2 where there is
a failing backup task for missing guests.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Fabian Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
>> ---
>> PVE/VZDump.pm | 5 +++++
>> test/vzdump_guest_included_test.pl | 12 +++++++++++-
>> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/PVE/VZDump.pm b/PVE/VZDump.pm
>> index 542228d6..6dbb6a44 100644
>> --- a/PVE/VZDump.pm
>> +++ b/PVE/VZDump.pm
>> @@ -1217,6 +1217,11 @@ sub get_included_guests {
>> $vmids = check_vmids(@$vmids);
>>
>> for my $vmid (@$vmids) {
>> + if (!defined($vmlist->{ids}->{$vmid})) {
>> + debugmsg('warn', "no guest with ID '$vmid' exists in the cluster!");
>> + next;
>> + }
>> +
>> my $node = $vmlist->{ids}->{$vmid}->{node};
>> next if (defined $job->{node} && $job->{node} ne $node);
>>
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-19 10:53 Fabian Ebner
2020-10-19 12:38 ` Thomas Lamprecht
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