Activity log for bug #1892728

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2020-08-24 14:22:06 Andrea Righi bug added bug
2020-08-24 14:23:46 Andrea Righi bug task added ec2-hibinit-agent (Ubuntu)
2020-08-24 14:24:07 Andrea Righi bug task deleted linux-aws (Ubuntu)
2020-08-25 15:21:20 Brian Murray tags rls-gg-incoming
2020-08-25 16:57:11 Balint Reczey ec2-hibinit-agent (Ubuntu): status New Confirmed
2020-08-27 15:26:26 Łukasz Zemczak nominated for series Ubuntu Groovy
2020-08-27 15:26:26 Łukasz Zemczak bug task added ec2-hibinit-agent (Ubuntu Groovy)
2020-08-27 15:26:32 Łukasz Zemczak tags rls-gg-incoming
2020-09-02 12:32:44 Francis Ginther tags id-5f47d0f8b8ce963bb1e25973
2020-09-22 15:03:26 Balint Reczey ec2-hibinit-agent (Ubuntu Groovy): importance Undecided Critical
2020-09-22 15:03:28 Balint Reczey ec2-hibinit-agent (Ubuntu Groovy): importance Critical High
2020-10-01 18:01:32 Balint Reczey ec2-hibinit-agent (Ubuntu Groovy): assignee Balint Reczey (rbalint)
2020-10-01 18:01:35 Balint Reczey ec2-hibinit-agent (Ubuntu Groovy): status Confirmed In Progress
2020-10-02 19:45:39 Balint Reczey ec2-hibinit-agent (Ubuntu Groovy): status In Progress Incomplete
2020-10-14 15:48:04 Matthieu Clemenceau tags id-5f47d0f8b8ce963bb1e25973 fr-205 id-5f47d0f8b8ce963bb1e25973
2020-10-14 16:33:37 Balint Reczey affects ec2-hibinit-agent (Ubuntu Groovy) linux (Ubuntu Groovy)
2020-10-14 16:33:49 Balint Reczey linux (Ubuntu Groovy): assignee Balint Reczey (rbalint)
2020-10-14 20:31:01 Seth Forshee description With commit 30460e1ea3e6 ("fs: Enable bmap() function to properly return errors"), applied to v5.6-rc1, running swapon on a file that has holes returns an error (EINVAL); hibinit-agent is creating the swap file just using fallocate(), without touching the whole file by deafult, so there might be holes, swapon fails and hibernation cannot be performed. To prevent this problem we need to touch the swap file before using it and this can be done setting "touch-swap = True" in /etc/hibinit-config.cfg. The downside of this setting is that a new instance requires more time to be properly "initialized" the first time it boots due to the extra I/O required to touch the swap file (this additional I/O can be quite consistent in large instances, like c5.18xlarge for example), but I don't see a better way to make sure the file is all allocated without holes, so I guess we need to turn on this option if we want to use hibernation w/ kernels >= 5.6. SRU Justification Impact: Running swapon on ext4 with a file with holes fails in the Groovy 5.8 kernel. This prevents using swap files created using fallocate(), which prevents hibernation in EC2. Fix: Commit 424de74af0d0679e99660904a5f472acd85bdb73 from linux-next implements swap_activate aops to fix this issue. Test Case: Run swapon with a file allocated using fallocate() in an ext4 filesystem. With the fix this should be successful, and it should be possible to hibernate/resume an EC2 instance using such a swapfile. Regression Potential: The code changes only impact activating swap on ext4, so regressions are possible for this operation. All other operations should not be impacted. --- With commit 30460e1ea3e6 ("fs: Enable bmap() function to properly return errors"), applied to v5.6-rc1, running swapon on a file that has holes returns an error (EINVAL); hibinit-agent is creating the swap file just using fallocate(), without touching the whole file by deafult, so there might be holes, swapon fails and hibernation cannot be performed. To prevent this problem we need to touch the swap file before using it and this can be done setting "touch-swap = True" in /etc/hibinit-config.cfg. The downside of this setting is that a new instance requires more time to be properly "initialized" the first time it boots due to the extra I/O required to touch the swap file (this additional I/O can be quite consistent in large instances, like c5.18xlarge for example), but I don't see a better way to make sure the file is all allocated without holes, so I guess we need to turn on this option if we want to use hibernation w/ kernels >= 5.6.
2020-10-14 20:31:08 Seth Forshee linux (Ubuntu Groovy): status Incomplete In Progress
2020-10-14 20:31:08 Seth Forshee linux (Ubuntu Groovy): assignee Seth Forshee (sforshee)
2020-10-19 15:02:36 Launchpad Janitor linux (Ubuntu Groovy): status In Progress Fix Released
2020-10-19 15:02:36 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2020-12351
2020-10-19 15:02:36 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2020-12352
2020-10-19 15:02:36 Launchpad Janitor cve linked 2020-24490