keepalived: T9256: keep incomplete FIFO lines between reads - #5430
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pipe_wait() reads at most 500 bytes per iteration and keeps no residual buffer between them. A VRRP transition involving enough instances emits more than that in a single burst, so a read lands mid-line: the tail of one chunk is queued as an incomplete fragment and the head of the next chunk as another. The dispatcher then fails to match the notify regex on both halves and silently runs no transition script. Observed on a pair with 14 instances in one sync group, where "GROUP" arrived as "ROUP" because the leading character ended the previous read. Hold the incomplete trailing line and prepend it to the next read, so only whole lines reach the queue. Only signal the processing thread when at least one complete line was queued.
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Malformed or non-decodable FIFO input can terminate notification processing and leave later notifications unread. Merge should wait until UnicodeDecodeError is handled separately from OSError. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Pull request overview
This PR updates the Keepalived FIFO reader to avoid enqueueing partial/incomplete notify lines when os.read() splits a write mid-line, ensuring only whole lines are passed to the processing thread.
Changes:
- Introduces a persistent trailing-line buffer across FIFO reads in
pipe_wait(). - Queues only complete, non-empty lines and triggers
message_eventonly when at least one full line is queued.
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src/system/keepalived-fifo.py:181
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except Exception as err:handler assumes every exception has anerrnoattribute (err.errno != 11). If a non-OSErroroccurs in this block (e.g.,UnicodeDecodeErrorfrommessage.decode()), the exception handler will raiseAttributeErrorand terminate the reader thread. CatchBlockingIOError/OSErrorexplicitly (and optionally handle decode errors) instead of checkingerrnoon a genericException.
if queued:
self.message_event.set()
except Exception as err:
# ignore the "Resource temporarily unavailable" error
if err.errno != 11:
logger.error(f'Error receiving message: {err}')
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Taking this out of draft — it stands on its own and doesn't depend on how defect 1 is resolved. That one is still open for discussion on T9256. |
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In `@src/system/keepalived-fifo.py`:
- Line 164: Update the pipe_wait message-decoding flow around message.decode()
to catch UnicodeDecodeError separately, then restrict errno-based handling to
OSError exceptions so decode failures do not access a missing errno attribute
and terminate notification processing.
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Relevant review context
- Task T9256 identifies the underlying bug:
os.read(..., 500)can split keepalived notifications across reads, while the previous implementation retained no residual buffer. This can enqueue fragments such asROUPor split quoted names, preventing dispatch. - T9256’s proposed fix matches this PR’s approach: retain the trailing incomplete line, process only complete non-empty lines, and signal the event only when lines were queued.
- The reporter states the fix was tested in production and made transition scripts fire reliably; the task remains open with High priority.
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#5430as the draft PR for defect 2.
| # split PIPE content by lines and put them into queue | ||
| for line in message.decode().strip().splitlines(): | ||
| self.message_queue.put(line) | ||
| buffer += message.decode() |
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Handle UnicodeDecodeError before accessing errno.
At src/system/keepalived-fifo.py:164, message.decode() can raise UnicodeDecodeError. The broad handler then accesses err.errno, which raises AttributeError because UnicodeDecodeError has no errno attribute. This terminates pipe_wait and leaves later notifications unread.
Catch UnicodeDecodeError separately and limit the errno check to OSError.
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In `@src/system/keepalived-fifo.py` at line 164, Update the pipe_wait
message-decoding flow around message.decode() to catch UnicodeDecodeError
separately, then restrict errno-based handling to OSError exceptions so decode
failures do not access a missing errno attribute and terminate notification
processing.
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This addresses defect 2 only.
Defect 1 — the notify regex rejecting colons — is deliberately left out: it needs a design decision from the maintainers (widen the regex vs. reject those names at configuration time), which I've asked about on T9256.