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runc exec: report possible OOM kill
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An exec may fail due to memory shortage (cgroup memory limits being too
tight), and an error message provided in this case is clueless:

> $ sudo ../runc/runc exec xx56 top
> ERRO[0000] exec failed: container_linux.go:367: starting container process caused: read init-p: connection reset by peer

Same as the previous commit for run/start, check the OOM kill counter
and report an OOM kill.

The differences from run are

1. The container is already running and OOM kill counter might not be
   zero.  This is why we have to read the counter before exec and after
   it failed.

2. An unrelated OOM kill event might occur in parallel with our exec
   (and I see no way to find out which process was killed, except to
   parse kernel logs which seems excessive and not very reliable).
   This is why we report _possible_ OOM kill.

With this commit, the error message looks like:

> ERRO[0000] exec failed: container_linux.go:367: starting container process caused: process_linux.go:105: possibly OOM-killed caused: read init-p: connection reset by peer

Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
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kolyshkin committed Feb 24, 2021
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions libcontainer/container_linux.go
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Expand Up @@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ func (c *linuxContainer) newSetnsProcess(p *Process, cmd *exec.Cmd, messageSockP
intelRdtPath: state.IntelRdtPath,
messageSockPair: messageSockPair,
logFilePair: logFilePair,
manager: c.cgroupManager,
config: c.newInitConfig(p),
process: p,
bootstrapData: data,
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7 changes: 7 additions & 0 deletions libcontainer/process_linux.go
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Expand Up @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ type setnsProcess struct {
logFilePair filePair
cgroupPaths map[string]string
rootlessCgroups bool
manager cgroups.Manager
intelRdtPath string
config *initConfig
fds []string
Expand All @@ -88,6 +89,8 @@ func (p *setnsProcess) signal(sig os.Signal) error {

func (p *setnsProcess) start() (retErr error) {
defer p.messageSockPair.parent.Close()
// get the "before" value of oom kill count
oom, _ := p.manager.OOMKillCount()
err := p.cmd.Start()
// close the write-side of the pipes (controlled by child)
p.messageSockPair.child.Close()
Expand All @@ -97,6 +100,10 @@ func (p *setnsProcess) start() (retErr error) {
}
defer func() {
if retErr != nil {
if newOom, err := p.manager.OOMKillCount(); err == nil && newOom != oom {
// Someone in this cgroup was killed, this _might_ be us.
retErr = newSystemErrorWithCause(retErr, "possibly OOM-killed")
}
err := ignoreTerminateErrors(p.terminate())
if err != nil {
logrus.WithError(err).Warn("unable to terminate setnsProcess")
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