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  1. CloudStack
  2. CLOUDSTACK-585

DHCP entry provisioning is broken in the KVM agent

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    • Bug
    • Status: Open
    • Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • None
    • None
    • Hypervisor Controller, KVM
    • Security Level: Public (Anyone can view this level - this is the default.)
    • CloudStack 3.0.2 KVM agent running on Fedora 14

    Description

      When adding an instance to a routerVM DHCP configuration, it seems that the KVM agent calls /usr/lib64/cloud/agent/scripts/network/domr/dhcp_entry.sh with wrongly constructed command line arguments, making the script fail to add correct entries (specifically default router, DNS servers and static routes) for that instance to the routerVM's /etc/dhcphosts.txt + /etc/dhcpopts.txt.

      Especially adding a specific default gateway fails, so the routerVM will always announce itself as the default router, because the correct entry in /etc/dhcpopts specifying the gateway of the instance's default network as the gateway is missing. This is especially nasty for non-default/additional networks of an instance, messing up the default routing.

      Examples:

      Management server log entry:

      "2012-11-29 14:36:37,764 DEBUG [resource.virtualnetwork.VirtualRoutingResource] (agentRequest-Handler-3:null) Executing: /usr/lib64/cloud/agent/./scripts/network/domr/dhcp_entry.sh -r 169.254.0.122 -v 172.31.2.233 -m 06:b5:88:00:02:30 -n vmname -d 172.31.2.1 -N 172.31.2.201 "

      Notice the double spaces before -d and -N (and the extra space at the EOL) – WARNING: you have to view the source of this description to actually see the double spaces!)

      After patching /usr/lib64/cloud/agent/scripts/network/domr/dhcp_entry.sh to do meaningful logging, it's clear that the script does not get called with "-d", but " -d" instead (same for -N), so with an extra space before the dash. Thus, getopts fails to parse/recognize these two arguments correctly and passed empty values for $dfltrt and $dns to the /root/edithosts.sh being called on the routerVM.

      It's also clear that the CloudStack KVM Java agent calls it with the wrongly constructed command line, because if a shell would interpret this command line, it would just ignore the extra spaces itself.

      I've not been able to dig it down, but I somehow suspect that one of
      ./utils/src/com/cloud/utils/script/Script.java:protected String buildCommandLine(String[] command) { }
      ./utils/src/com/cloud/utils/script/Script.java:public String execute(OutputInterpreter interpreter) { }
      might mess up building the command line of the command that had been built by
      ./core/src/com/cloud/agent/resource/virtualnetwork/VirtualRoutingResource.java:protected synchronized Answer execute (final DhcpEntryCommand cmd) { }
      before.

      I've not tried 4.0.0 so far, thus I cannot say whether it might be affected or not.

      As a workaround, I've patched dhcp_entry.sh to re-evaluate the positional parameters using 'set – ${@}' (will attach a patch, also one for logging).

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        1. 2-dhcp_entry.sh.fix.patch
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          Wolfram Schlich
        2. 1-dhcp_entry.sh.log.patch
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          Wolfram Schlich

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