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24 #include <sys/resource.h>
28 #include "command-line.h"
29 #include "fatal-signal.h"
33 #include "socket-util.h"
38 VLOG_DEFINE_THIS_MODULE(daemon
);
40 /* --detach: Should we run in the background? */
41 static bool detach
; /* Was --detach specified? */
42 static bool detached
; /* Have we already detached? */
44 /* --pidfile: Name of pidfile (null if none). */
47 /* Device and inode of pidfile, so we can avoid reopening it. */
48 static dev_t pidfile_dev
;
49 static ino_t pidfile_ino
;
51 /* --overwrite-pidfile: Create pidfile even if one already exists and is
53 static bool overwrite_pidfile
;
55 /* --no-chdir: Should we chdir to "/"? */
56 static bool chdir_
= true;
58 /* File descriptor used by daemonize_start() and daemonize_complete(). */
59 static int daemonize_fd
= -1;
61 /* --monitor: Should a supervisory process monitor the daemon and restart it if
62 * it dies due to an error signal? */
65 /* For each of the standard file descriptors, whether to replace it by
66 * /dev/null (if false) or keep it for the daemon to use (if true). */
67 static bool save_fds
[3];
69 static void check_already_running(void);
70 static int lock_pidfile(FILE *, int command
);
72 /* Returns the file name that would be used for a pidfile if 'name' were
73 * provided to set_pidfile(). The caller must free the returned string. */
75 make_pidfile_name(const char *name
)
78 ? xasprintf("%s/%s.pid", ovs_rundir(), program_name
)
79 : abs_file_name(ovs_rundir(), name
));
82 /* Sets up a following call to daemonize() to create a pidfile named 'name'.
83 * If 'name' begins with '/', then it is treated as an absolute path.
84 * Otherwise, it is taken relative to RUNDIR, which is $(prefix)/var/run by
87 * If 'name' is null, then program_name followed by ".pid" is used. */
89 set_pidfile(const char *name
)
92 pidfile
= make_pidfile_name(name
);
95 /* Returns an absolute path to the configured pidfile, or a null pointer if no
96 * pidfile is configured. The caller must not modify or free the returned
104 /* Sets that we do not chdir to "/". */
111 /* Will we chdir to "/" as part of daemonizing? */
113 is_chdir_enabled(void)
118 /* Normally, daemonize() or damonize_start() will terminate the program with a
119 * message if a locked pidfile already exists. If this function is called, an
120 * existing pidfile will be replaced, with a warning. */
122 ignore_existing_pidfile(void)
124 overwrite_pidfile
= true;
127 /* Sets up a following call to daemonize() to detach from the foreground
128 * session, running this process in the background. */
135 /* Will daemonize() really detach? */
142 /* Sets up a following call to daemonize() to fork a supervisory process to
143 * monitor the daemon and restart it if it dies due to an error signal. */
145 daemon_set_monitor(void)
150 /* A daemon doesn't normally have any use for the file descriptors for stdin,
151 * stdout, and stderr after it detaches. To keep these file descriptors from
152 * e.g. holding an SSH session open, by default detaching replaces each of
153 * these file descriptors by /dev/null. But a few daemons expect the user to
154 * redirect stdout or stderr to a file, in which case it is desirable to keep
155 * these file descriptors. This function, therefore, disables replacing 'fd'
156 * by /dev/null when the daemon detaches. */
158 daemon_save_fd(int fd
)
160 ovs_assert(fd
== STDIN_FILENO
||
161 fd
== STDOUT_FILENO
||
162 fd
== STDERR_FILENO
);
166 /* If a pidfile has been configured, creates it and stores the running
167 * process's pid in it. Ensures that the pidfile will be deleted when the
172 long int pid
= getpid();
178 /* Create a temporary pidfile. */
179 if (overwrite_pidfile
) {
180 tmpfile
= xasprintf("%s.tmp%ld", pidfile
, pid
);
181 fatal_signal_add_file_to_unlink(tmpfile
);
183 /* Everyone shares the same file which will be treated as a lock. To
184 * avoid some uncomfortable race conditions, we can't set up the fatal
185 * signal unlink until we've acquired it. */
186 tmpfile
= xasprintf("%s.tmp", pidfile
);
189 file
= fopen(tmpfile
, "a+");
191 VLOG_FATAL("%s: create failed (%s)", tmpfile
, strerror(errno
));
194 error
= lock_pidfile(file
, F_SETLK
);
196 /* Looks like we failed to acquire the lock. Note that, if we failed
197 * for some other reason (and '!overwrite_pidfile'), we will have
198 * left 'tmpfile' as garbage in the file system. */
199 VLOG_FATAL("%s: fcntl(F_SETLK) failed (%s)", tmpfile
, strerror(error
));
202 if (!overwrite_pidfile
) {
203 /* We acquired the lock. Make sure to clean up on exit, and verify
204 * that we're allowed to create the actual pidfile. */
205 fatal_signal_add_file_to_unlink(tmpfile
);
206 check_already_running();
209 if (fstat(fileno(file
), &s
) == -1) {
210 VLOG_FATAL("%s: fstat failed (%s)", tmpfile
, strerror(errno
));
213 if (ftruncate(fileno(file
), 0) == -1) {
214 VLOG_FATAL("%s: truncate failed (%s)", tmpfile
, strerror(errno
));
217 fprintf(file
, "%ld\n", pid
);
218 if (fflush(file
) == EOF
) {
219 VLOG_FATAL("%s: write failed (%s)", tmpfile
, strerror(errno
));
222 error
= rename(tmpfile
, pidfile
);
224 /* Due to a race, 'tmpfile' may be owned by a different process, so we
225 * shouldn't delete it on exit. */
226 fatal_signal_remove_file_to_unlink(tmpfile
);
229 VLOG_FATAL("failed to rename \"%s\" to \"%s\" (%s)",
230 tmpfile
, pidfile
, strerror(errno
));
233 /* Ensure that the pidfile will get deleted on exit. */
234 fatal_signal_add_file_to_unlink(pidfile
);
238 * We don't close 'file' because its file descriptor must remain open to
240 pidfile_dev
= s
.st_dev
;
241 pidfile_ino
= s
.st_ino
;
247 /* If configured with set_pidfile() or set_detach(), creates the pid file and
248 * detaches from the foreground session. */
253 daemonize_complete();
256 /* Calls fork() and on success returns its return value. On failure, logs an
257 * error and exits unsuccessfully.
259 * Post-fork, but before returning, this function calls a few other functions
260 * that are generally useful if the child isn't planning to exec a new
263 fork_and_clean_up(void)
269 /* Running in parent process. */
272 /* Running in child process. */
276 VLOG_FATAL("fork failed (%s)", strerror(errno
));
284 * - In the parent, waits for the child to signal that it has completed its
285 * startup sequence. Then stores -1 in '*fdp' and returns the child's pid.
287 * - In the child, stores a fd in '*fdp' and returns 0. The caller should
288 * pass the fd to fork_notify_startup() after it finishes its startup
291 * If something goes wrong with the fork, logs a critical error and aborts the
294 fork_and_wait_for_startup(int *fdp
)
301 pid
= fork_and_clean_up();
303 /* Running in parent process. */
308 if (read_fully(fds
[0], &c
, 1, &bytes_read
) != 0) {
313 retval
= waitpid(pid
, &status
, 0);
314 } while (retval
== -1 && errno
== EINTR
);
317 if (WIFEXITED(status
) && WEXITSTATUS(status
)) {
318 /* Child exited with an error. Convey the same error
319 * to our parent process as a courtesy. */
320 exit(WEXITSTATUS(status
));
322 char *status_msg
= process_status_msg(status
);
323 VLOG_FATAL("fork child died before signaling startup (%s)",
326 } else if (retval
< 0) {
327 VLOG_FATAL("waitpid failed (%s)", strerror(errno
));
335 /* Running in child process. */
344 fork_notify_startup(int fd
)
347 size_t bytes_written
;
350 error
= write_fully(fd
, "", 1, &bytes_written
);
352 VLOG_FATAL("pipe write failed (%s)", strerror(error
));
360 should_restart(int status
)
362 if (WIFSIGNALED(status
)) {
363 static const int error_signals
[] = {
364 SIGABRT
, SIGALRM
, SIGBUS
, SIGFPE
, SIGILL
, SIGPIPE
, SIGSEGV
,
370 for (i
= 0; i
< ARRAY_SIZE(error_signals
); i
++) {
371 if (error_signals
[i
] == WTERMSIG(status
)) {
380 monitor_daemon(pid_t daemon_pid
)
382 /* XXX Should log daemon's stderr output at startup time. */
387 subprogram_name
= "monitor";
388 status_msg
= xstrdup("healthy");
389 last_restart
= TIME_MIN
;
395 proctitle_set("monitoring pid %lu (%s)",
396 (unsigned long int) daemon_pid
, status_msg
);
399 retval
= waitpid(daemon_pid
, &status
, 0);
400 } while (retval
== -1 && errno
== EINTR
);
403 VLOG_FATAL("waitpid failed (%s)", strerror(errno
));
404 } else if (retval
== daemon_pid
) {
405 char *s
= process_status_msg(status
);
406 if (should_restart(status
)) {
408 status_msg
= xasprintf("%d crashes: pid %lu died, %s",
410 (unsigned long int) daemon_pid
, s
);
413 if (WCOREDUMP(status
)) {
414 /* Disable further core dumps to save disk space. */
419 if (setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE
, &r
) == -1) {
420 VLOG_WARN("failed to disable core dumps: %s",
425 /* Throttle restarts to no more than once every 10 seconds. */
426 if (time(NULL
) < last_restart
+ 10) {
427 VLOG_WARN("%s, waiting until 10 seconds since last "
428 "restart", status_msg
);
430 time_t now
= time(NULL
);
431 time_t wakeup
= last_restart
+ 10;
438 last_restart
= time(NULL
);
440 VLOG_ERR("%s, restarting", status_msg
);
441 daemon_pid
= fork_and_wait_for_startup(&daemonize_fd
);
446 VLOG_INFO("pid %lu died, %s, exiting",
447 (unsigned long int) daemon_pid
, s
);
455 /* Running in new daemon process. */
457 subprogram_name
= "";
460 /* Close standard file descriptors (except any that the client has requested we
461 * leave open by calling daemon_save_fd()). If we're started from e.g. an SSH
462 * session, then this keeps us from holding that session open artificially. */
464 close_standard_fds(void)
466 int null_fd
= get_null_fd();
470 for (fd
= 0; fd
< 3; fd
++) {
477 /* Disable logging to stderr to avoid wasting CPU time. */
478 vlog_set_levels(NULL
, VLF_CONSOLE
, VLL_OFF
);
481 /* If daemonization is configured, then starts daemonization, by forking and
482 * returning in the child process. The parent process hangs around until the
483 * child lets it know either that it completed startup successfully (by calling
484 * daemon_complete()) or that it failed to start up (by exiting with a nonzero
487 daemonize_start(void)
492 if (fork_and_wait_for_startup(&daemonize_fd
) > 0) {
493 /* Running in parent process. */
497 /* Running in daemon or monitor process. */
502 int saved_daemonize_fd
= daemonize_fd
;
505 daemon_pid
= fork_and_wait_for_startup(&daemonize_fd
);
506 if (daemon_pid
> 0) {
507 /* Running in monitor process. */
508 fork_notify_startup(saved_daemonize_fd
);
509 close_standard_fds();
510 monitor_daemon(daemon_pid
);
512 /* Running in daemon process. */
519 /* Make sure that the unixctl commands for vlog get registered in a
520 * daemon, even before the first log message. */
524 /* If daemonization is configured, then this function notifies the parent
525 * process that the child process has completed startup successfully. It also
526 * call daemonize_post_detach().
528 * Calling this function more than once has no additional effect. */
530 daemonize_complete(void)
535 fork_notify_startup(daemonize_fd
);
537 daemonize_post_detach();
541 /* If daemonization is configured, then this function does traditional Unix
542 * daemonization behavior: join a new session, chdir to the root (if not
543 * disabled), and close the standard file descriptors.
545 * It only makes sense to call this function as part of an implementation of a
546 * special daemon subprocess. A normal daemon should just call
547 * daemonize_complete(). */
549 daemonize_post_detach(void)
555 close_standard_fds();
563 "\nDaemon options:\n"
564 " --detach run in background as daemon\n"
565 " --no-chdir do not chdir to '/'\n"
566 " --pidfile[=FILE] create pidfile (default: %s/%s.pid)\n"
567 " --overwrite-pidfile with --pidfile, start even if already "
569 ovs_rundir(), program_name
);
573 lock_pidfile__(FILE *file
, int command
, struct flock
*lck
)
577 lck
->l_type
= F_WRLCK
;
578 lck
->l_whence
= SEEK_SET
;
584 error
= fcntl(fileno(file
), command
, lck
) == -1 ? errno
: 0;
585 } while (error
== EINTR
);
590 lock_pidfile(FILE *file
, int command
)
594 return lock_pidfile__(file
, command
, &lck
);
598 read_pidfile__(const char *pidfile
, bool delete_if_stale
)
606 if ((pidfile_ino
|| pidfile_dev
)
607 && !stat(pidfile
, &s
)
608 && s
.st_ino
== pidfile_ino
&& s
.st_dev
== pidfile_dev
) {
609 /* It's our own pidfile. We can't afford to open it, because closing
610 * *any* fd for a file that a process has locked also releases all the
611 * locks on that file.
613 * Fortunately, we know the associated pid anyhow: */
617 file
= fopen(pidfile
, "r+");
619 if (errno
== ENOENT
&& delete_if_stale
) {
623 VLOG_WARN("%s: open: %s", pidfile
, strerror(error
));
627 error
= lock_pidfile__(file
, F_GETLK
, &lck
);
629 VLOG_WARN("%s: fcntl: %s", pidfile
, strerror(error
));
632 if (lck
.l_type
== F_UNLCK
) {
633 /* pidfile exists but it isn't locked by anyone. We need to delete it
634 * so that a new pidfile can go in its place. But just calling
635 * unlink(pidfile) makes a nasty race: what if someone else unlinks it
636 * before we do and then replaces it by a valid pidfile? We'd unlink
637 * their valid pidfile. We do a little dance to avoid the race, by
638 * locking the invalid pidfile. Only one process can have the invalid
639 * pidfile locked, and only that process has the right to unlink it. */
640 if (!delete_if_stale
) {
642 VLOG_DBG("%s: pid file is stale", pidfile
);
647 error
= lock_pidfile(file
, F_SETLK
);
649 /* We lost a race with someone else doing the same thing. */
650 VLOG_WARN("%s: lost race to lock pidfile", pidfile
);
654 /* Is the file we have locked still named 'pidfile'? */
655 if (stat(pidfile
, &s
) || fstat(fileno(file
), &s2
)
656 || s
.st_ino
!= s2
.st_ino
|| s
.st_dev
!= s2
.st_dev
) {
657 /* No. We lost a race with someone else who got the lock before
658 * us, deleted the pidfile, and closed it (releasing the lock). */
660 VLOG_WARN("%s: lost race to delete pidfile", pidfile
);
664 /* We won the right to delete the stale pidfile. */
665 if (unlink(pidfile
)) {
667 VLOG_WARN("%s: failed to delete stale pidfile (%s)",
668 pidfile
, strerror(error
));
671 VLOG_DBG("%s: deleted stale pidfile", pidfile
);
676 if (!fgets(line
, sizeof line
, file
)) {
679 VLOG_WARN("%s: read: %s", pidfile
, strerror(error
));
682 VLOG_WARN("%s: read: unexpected end of file", pidfile
);
687 if (lck
.l_pid
!= strtoul(line
, NULL
, 10)) {
688 /* The process that has the pidfile locked is not the process that
689 * created it. It must be stale, with the process that has it locked
690 * preparing to delete it. */
692 VLOG_WARN("%s: stale pidfile for pid %s being deleted by pid %ld",
693 pidfile
, line
, (long int) lck
.l_pid
);
707 /* Opens and reads a PID from 'pidfile'. Returns the positive PID if
708 * successful, otherwise a negative errno value. */
710 read_pidfile(const char *pidfile
)
712 return read_pidfile__(pidfile
, false);
715 /* Checks whether a process with the given 'pidfile' is already running and,
716 * if so, aborts. If 'pidfile' is stale, deletes it. */
718 check_already_running(void)
720 long int pid
= read_pidfile__(pidfile
, true);
722 VLOG_FATAL("%s: already running as pid %ld, aborting", pidfile
, pid
);
723 } else if (pid
< 0) {
724 VLOG_FATAL("%s: pidfile check failed (%s), aborting",
725 pidfile
, strerror(-pid
));