zfs: rewrite SendStream, fix bug in Close() on FreeBSD, add platformtests

This commit was motivated by https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl/issues/495
where, on FreeBSD with OpenZFS 2.0, a SendStream.Close() call might wait indefinitely for `zfs send` to exit.
The reason is that, due to the refactoring done for redacted send & recv
(30af21b025),
the `dump_bytes` function, which writes to the pipe, executes in a separate thread (synctask taskq) iff not `HAVE_LARGE_STACKS`.
The `zfs send` process/thread waits for that taskq thread using an uninterruptible primitive.
So when we SIGKILL `zfs send`, that signal doesn't reach the right thread to interrupt the pipe write.

Theoretically this affects both Linux and FreeBSD, but most Linux users `HAVE_LARGE_STACKS` and since https://github.com/penzfs/zfs/pull/12350/files OpenZFS on FreeBSD `HAVE_LARGE_STACKS` as well.
However, at least until FreeBSD 13.1, possibly for the entire 13 lifecycle, we're going to have to live with that oddity.

Measures taken in this commit:
- Report the behavior as an upstream bug https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/12500
- Change SendStream code so that it closes zrepl's read-end of the pipe (see comment in code)
- Clean up and make explicit SendStream's state handling
- Write extensive platformtests for SendStream
    - They pass on my Linux install and on FreeBSD 12
    - FreeBSD 13 still needs testing.

fixes https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl/issues/495

platformtest/tests/generated_cases.go

@@ -34,5 +34,10 @@ var Cases = []Case{BatchDestroy,
 	SendArgsValidationEncryptedSendOfUnencryptedDatasetForbidden__EncryptionSupported_true,
 	SendArgsValidationResumeTokenDifferentFilesystemForbidden,
 	SendArgsValidationResumeTokenEncryptionMismatchForbidden,
+	SendStreamCloseAfterBlockedOnPipeWrite,
+	SendStreamCloseAfterEOFRead,
+	SendStreamMultipleCloseAfterEOF,
+	SendStreamMultipleCloseBeforeEOF,
+	SendStreamNonEOFReadErrorHandling,
 	UndestroyableSnapshotParsing,
 }

platformtest/tests/sendStream.go

@@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
+package tests
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"io/ioutil"
+	"os"
+	"os/exec"
+	"path"
+	"syscall"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+
+	"github.com/zrepl/zrepl/platformtest"
+	"github.com/zrepl/zrepl/util/nodefault"
+	"github.com/zrepl/zrepl/zfs"
+)
+
+func sendStreamTest(ctx *platformtest.Context) *zfs.SendStream {
+
+	platformtest.Run(ctx, platformtest.PanicErr, ctx.RootDataset, `
+		DESTROYROOT
+		CREATEROOT
+		+  "sender"
+	`)
+
+	fs := fmt.Sprintf("%s/sender", ctx.RootDataset)
+
+	fsmpo, err := zfs.ZFSGetMountpoint(ctx, fs)
+	require.NoError(ctx, err)
+
+	writeDummyData(path.Join(fsmpo.Mountpoint, "dummy.data"), 1<<26)
+	mustSnapshot(ctx, fs+"@1")
+	snap := fsversion(ctx, fs, "@1")
+	snapSendArg := snap.ToSendArgVersion()
+
+	sendArgs, err := zfs.ZFSSendArgsUnvalidated{
+		FS:   fs,
+		From: nil,
+		To:   &snapSendArg,
+		ZFSSendFlags: zfs.ZFSSendFlags{
+			Encrypted: &nodefault.Bool{B: false},
+		},
+	}.Validate(ctx)
+	require.NoError(ctx, err)
+
+	sendStream, err := zfs.ZFSSend(ctx, sendArgs)
+	require.NoError(ctx, err)
+
+	return sendStream
+
+}
+
+func SendStreamCloseAfterBlockedOnPipeWrite(ctx *platformtest.Context) {
+
+	sendStream := sendStreamTest(ctx)
+
+	// let the pipe buffer fill and the zfs process block uninterruptibly
+
+	ctx.Logf("waiting for pipe write to block")
+	time.Sleep(5 * time.Second) // XXX need a platform-neutral way to detect that the pipe is full and the writer is blocked
+
+	ctx.Logf("closing send stream")
+	err := sendStream.Close() // this is what this test case is about
+	ctx.Logf("close error: %T %s", err, err)
+	require.NoError(ctx, err)
+
+	exitErrZfsError := sendStream.TestOnly_ExitErr()
+	require.Contains(ctx, exitErrZfsError.Error(), "signal")
+	require.Error(ctx, exitErrZfsError)
+	exitErr, ok := exitErrZfsError.WaitErr.(*exec.ExitError)
+	require.True(ctx, ok)
+	if exitErr.Exited() {
+		// some ZFS impls (FreeBSD 12) behaves that way
+		return
+	}
+
+	// ProcessState is only available after exit
+	// => use as proxy that the process was wait()ed upon and is gone
+	ctx.Logf("%#v", exitErr.ProcessState)
+	require.NotNil(ctx, exitErr.ProcessState)
+	// and let's verify that the process got killed, so that we know it was the call to .Close() above
+	waitStatus := exitErr.ProcessState.Sys().(syscall.WaitStatus)
+	ctx.Logf("wait status: %#v", waitStatus)
+	ctx.Logf("exit status: %v", waitStatus.ExitStatus())
+	require.True(ctx, waitStatus.Signaled())
+	switch waitStatus.Signal() {
+	case unix.SIGKILL:
+		fallthrough
+	case unix.SIGPIPE:
+		// ok
+
+	default:
+		ctx.Errorf("%T %s\n%v", waitStatus.Signal(), waitStatus.Signal(), waitStatus.Signal())
+		ctx.FailNow()
+	}
+}
+
+func SendStreamCloseAfterEOFRead(ctx *platformtest.Context) {
+
+	sendStream := sendStreamTest(ctx)
+
+	_, err := io.Copy(ioutil.Discard, sendStream)
+	require.NoError(ctx, err)
+
+	var buf [128]byte
+	n, err := sendStream.Read(buf[:])
+	require.Zero(ctx, n)
+	require.Equal(ctx, io.EOF, err)
+
+	err = sendStream.Close()
+	require.NoError(ctx, err)
+
+	n, err = sendStream.Read(buf[:])
+	require.Zero(ctx, n)
+	require.Equal(ctx, os.ErrClosed, err, "same read error should be returned")
+}
+
+func SendStreamMultipleCloseAfterEOF(ctx *platformtest.Context) {
+
+	sendStream := sendStreamTest(ctx)
+
+	_, err := io.Copy(ioutil.Discard, sendStream)
+	require.NoError(ctx, err)
+
+	var buf [128]byte
+	n, err := sendStream.Read(buf[:])
+	require.Zero(ctx, n)
+	require.Equal(ctx, io.EOF, err)
+
+	err = sendStream.Close()
+	require.NoError(ctx, err)
+
+	err = sendStream.Close()
+	require.Equal(ctx, os.ErrClosed, err)
+}
+
+func SendStreamMultipleCloseBeforeEOF(ctx *platformtest.Context) {
+
+	sendStream := sendStreamTest(ctx)
+
+	err := sendStream.Close()
+	require.NoError(ctx, err)
+
+	err = sendStream.Close()
+	require.Equal(ctx, os.ErrClosed, err)
+}
+
+type failingReadCloser struct {
+	err error
+}
+
+var _ io.ReadCloser = &failingReadCloser{}
+
+func (c *failingReadCloser) Read(p []byte) (int, error) { return 0, c.err }
+func (c *failingReadCloser) Close() error               { return c.err }
+
+func SendStreamNonEOFReadErrorHandling(ctx *platformtest.Context) {
+
+	sendStream := sendStreamTest(ctx)
+
+	var buf [128]byte
+	n, err := sendStream.Read(buf[:])
+	require.Equal(ctx, len(buf), n)
+	require.NoError(ctx, err)
+
+	var mockError = fmt.Errorf("taeghaefow4piesahwahjocu7ul5tiachaiLipheijae8ooZ8Pies8shohGee9feeTeirai5aiFeiyaecai4kiaLoh4azeih0tea")
+	mock := &failingReadCloser{err: mockError}
+	orig := sendStream.TestOnly_ReplaceStdoutReader(mock)
+
+	n, err = sendStream.Read(buf[:])
+	require.Equal(ctx, 0, n)
+	require.Equal(ctx, mockError, err)
+
+	if sendStream.TestOnly_ReplaceStdoutReader(orig) != mock {
+		panic("incorrect test impl")
+	}
+
+	err = sendStream.Close()
+	require.NoError(ctx, err) // if we can't kill the child then this will be a flaky test, but let's assume we can kill the child
+
+	err = sendStream.Close()
+	require.Equal(ctx, os.ErrClosed, err)
+}

zfs/zfs.go

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
-	"time"
 
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
@@ -334,60 +333,122 @@ func pipeWithCapacityHint(capacity int) (r, w *os.File, err error) {
 	return stdoutReader, stdoutWriter, nil
 }
 
+type sendStreamState int
+
+const (
+	sendStreamOpen sendStreamState = iota
+	sendStreamClosed
+)
+
 type SendStream struct {
 	cmd          *zfscmd.Cmd
 	kill         context.CancelFunc
-
+	stdoutReader io.ReadCloser // not *os.File for mocking during platformtest
-	closeMtx     sync.Mutex
-	stdoutReader *os.File
 	stderrBuf    *circlog.CircularLog
-	opErr        error
+
+	mtx     sync.Mutex
+	state   sendStreamState
+	exitErr *ZFSError
 }
 
-func (s *SendStream) Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) {
+func (s *SendStream) Read(p []byte) (n int, _ error) {
-	s.closeMtx.Lock()
+	s.mtx.Lock()
-	opErr := s.opErr
+	defer s.mtx.Unlock()
-	s.closeMtx.Unlock()
-	if opErr != nil {
-		return 0, opErr
-	}
 
-	n, err = s.stdoutReader.Read(p)
+	switch s.state {
-	if err != nil {
+	case sendStreamClosed:
-		debug("sendStream: read err: %T %s", err, err)
+		return 0, os.ErrClosed
-		// TODO we assume here that any read error is permanent
+
-		// which is most likely the case for a local zfs send
+	case sendStreamOpen:
-		kwerr := s.killAndWait(err)
+		n, readErr := s.stdoutReader.Read(p)
-		debug("sendStream: killAndWait n=%v err= %T %s", n, kwerr, kwerr)
+		if readErr != nil {
-		// TODO we assume here that any read error is permanent
+			debug("sendStream: read: readErr=%T %s", readErr, readErr)
-		return n, kwerr
+			if readErr == io.EOF {
+				// io.EOF must be bubbled up as is so that consumers can handle it properly.
+				return n, readErr
+			}
+			// Assume that the error is not retryable.
+			// Try to kill now so that we can return a nice *ZFSError with captured stderr.
+			// If the kill doesn't work, it doesn't matter because the caller must by contract call Close() anyways.
+			killErr := s.killAndWait()
+			debug("sendStream: read: killErr=%T %s", killErr, killErr)
+			if killErr == nil {
+				s.state = sendStreamClosed
+				return n, s.exitErr // return the nice error
+			} else {
+				// we remain open so that we retry
+				return n, readErr // return the normal error
+			}
+		}
+		return n, readErr
+
+	default:
+		panic("unreachable")
 	}
-	return n, err
 }
 
 func (s *SendStream) Close() error {
 	debug("sendStream: close called")
-	return s.killAndWait(nil)
+	s.mtx.Lock()
+	defer s.mtx.Unlock()
+
+	switch s.state {
+	case sendStreamOpen:
+		err := s.killAndWait()
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		} else {
+			s.state = sendStreamClosed
+			return nil
+		}
+	case sendStreamClosed:
+		return os.ErrClosed
+	default:
+		panic("unreachable")
+	}
 }
 
-func (s *SendStream) killAndWait(precedingReadErr error) error {
+// returns nil iff the child process is gone (has been successfully waited upon)
+// in that case, s.exitErr is set
+func (s *SendStream) killAndWait() error {
 
 	debug("sendStream: killAndWait enter")
 	defer debug("sendStream: killAndWait leave")
-	if precedingReadErr == io.EOF {
+
-		// give the zfs process a little bit of time to terminate itself
+	// send SIGKILL
-		// if it holds this deadline, exitErr will be nil
-		time.AfterFunc(200*time.Millisecond, s.kill)
-	} else {
 	s.kill()
+
+	// Close our read-end of the pipe.
+	//
+	// We must do this before .Wait() because in some (not all) versions/build configs of ZFS,
+	// `zfs send` uses a separate kernel thread (taskq) to write the send stream (function `dump_bytes`).
+	// The `zfs send` thread then waits uinterruptably for the taskq thread to finish the write.
+	// And signalling the `zfs send` thread doesn't propagate to the taskq thread.
+	// So we end up in a state where we .Wait() forever.
+	// (See https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/12500 and
+	//  https://github.com/zrepl/zrepl/issues/495#issuecomment-902530043)
+	//
+	// By closing our read end of the pipe before .Wait(), we unblock the taskq thread if there is any.
+	// If there is no separate taskq thread, the SIGKILL to `zfs end` would suffice and be most precise,
+	// but due to the circumstances above, there is no other portable & robust way.
+	//
+	// However, the fallout from closing the pipe is that (in non-taskq builds) `zfs sends` will get a SIGPIPE.
+	// And on Linux, that SIGPIPE appears to win over the previously issued SIGKILL.
+	// And thus, on Linux, the `zfs send` will be killed by the default SIGPIPE handler.
+	// We can observe this in the WaitStatus below.
+	// This behavior is slightly annoying because the *exec.ExitError's message ("signal: broken pipe")
+	// isn't as clear as ("signal: killed").
+	// However, it seems like we just have to live with that. (covered by platformtest)
+	var closePipeErr error
+	if s.stdoutReader != nil {
+		closePipeErr = s.stdoutReader.Close()
+		if closePipeErr == nil {
+			// avoid double-closes in case waiting below doesn't work
+			// and someone attempts Close again
+			s.stdoutReader = nil
+		} else {
+			return closePipeErr
 		}
-
-	// allow async kills from Close(), that's why we only take the mutex here
-	s.closeMtx.Lock()
-	defer s.closeMtx.Unlock()
-
-	if s.opErr != nil {
-		return s.opErr
 	}
 
 	waitErr := s.cmd.Wait()
@@ -402,39 +463,30 @@ func (s *SendStream) killAndWait(precedingReadErr error) error {
 		}
 	}
 
-	// now, after we know the program exited do we close the pipe
+	// invariant: at this point, the child is gone and we cleaned up everything related to the SendStream
-	var closePipeErr error
-	if s.stdoutReader != nil {
-		closePipeErr = s.stdoutReader.Close()
-		if closePipeErr == nil {
-			// avoid double-closes in case anything below doesn't work
-			// and someone calls Close again
-			s.stdoutReader = nil
-		} else {
-			return closePipeErr
-		}
-	}
 
-	// we managed to tear things down, no let's give the user some pretty *ZFSError
 	if exitErr != nil {
-		s.opErr = &ZFSError{
+		// zfs send exited with an error or was killed by a signal.
+		s.exitErr = &ZFSError{
 			Stderr:  []byte(s.stderrBuf.String()),
 			WaitErr: exitErr,
 		}
 	} else {
-		s.opErr = precedingReadErr
+		// zfs send exited successfully (we know that since waitErr was either nil or wasn't an *exec.ExitError)
+		s.exitErr = nil
 	}
 
-	// detect the edge where we're called from s.Read
+	return nil
-	// after the pipe EOFed and zfs send exited without errors
-	// this is actually the "hot" / nice path
-	if exitErr == nil && precedingReadErr == io.EOF {
-		return precedingReadErr
-	}
-
-	return s.opErr
 }
 
+func (s *SendStream) TestOnly_ReplaceStdoutReader(f io.ReadCloser) (prev io.ReadCloser) {
+	prev = s.stdoutReader
+	s.stdoutReader = f
+	return prev
+}
+
+func (s *SendStream) TestOnly_ExitErr() *ZFSError { return s.exitErr }
+
 // NOTE: When updating this struct, make sure to update funcs Validate ValidateCorrespondsToResumeToken
 type ZFSSendArgVersion struct {
 	RelName string

zfs/zfscmd/zfscmd.go

@@ -209,3 +209,7 @@ func (c *Cmd) Runtime() time.Duration {
 	}
 	return c.waitReturnedAt.Sub(c.startedAt)
 }
+
+func (c *Cmd) TestOnly_ExecCmd() *exec.Cmd {
+	return c.cmd
+}