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What this PR does / why we need it:
udev can miss scsi events and not update device links properly when disks are detached and reattached to the same node in a different order. This PR workarounds the issue by comparing the udev link name, which is the PD disk name, with the scsi disk serial number returned from scsi_id, and prevents mounting of the disk if the link is wrong. It will also run udevadm trigger on the disk to try to correct the bad link.

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This fix prevents a GCE PD volume from being mounted if the udev device link is stale and tries to correct the link.

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msau42 commented Jul 31, 2018

/assign @davidz627 @verult @saad-ali
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This puts a hard dependency on the installation path, which could vary from distro to distro, or from version to version in the same distro. That said, I don't have a better idea off the top of my head. Just wanted to point it out.

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For kubelets running in containers, the above scsi_id tool will also need to be part of the kubelet image. How about reading the vpd_pg83 file in sysfs for reading in the identifier?

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The logic that scsi_id does to parse the vpd information looks quite involved, so would rather not have to repeat it here.

I will add in a check if the binary exists, and skip it if it doesn't.

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Should also submit a bugreport to maintainers of udevadm to get this actually fixed and link it in the PR

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nit: more error context

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nit: pattern should be a const, might even be shared elsewhere (?)

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does this test consistently reproduce the error?

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no, the issue is very incredibly difficult to reproduce and I have not found a consistent way to get into the error state

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nit: output is already of type string. So the string(output) is probably not necessary?

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msau42 commented Jul 31, 2018

Updated

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msau42 commented Jul 31, 2018

The e2e test is failing on aws for some reason. Since this fix is only for gce pd, I've removed aws from the test for now.

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msau42 commented Aug 1, 2018

/test pull-kubernetes-bazel-build

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Just minor nit, otherwise lgtm

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You should compile the regex only once.

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done

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/lgtm

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msau42 commented Aug 1, 2018

/test pull-kubernetes-e2e-kops-aws

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/lgtm
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Thanks @msau42

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Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 64645, 66832). If you want to cherry-pick this change to another branch, please follow the instructions here.

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Automated cherry pick of #66832: Detect if GCE PD udev link is wrong and try to correct it

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Rework multi-volume test to use StatefulSet

**What this PR does / why we need it**:
The e2e test that got added as part of #66832 fails in a multi-zone environment because the volumes get provisioned in random zones.  This PR reworks the test to use StatefulSet instead, which handles provisioning multiple PVCs in the same zone.

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// Returns the first path that exists, or empty string if none exist.
func verifyDevicePath(devicePaths []string, sdBeforeSet sets.String) (string, error) {
func verifyDevicePath(devicePaths []string, sdBeforeSet sets.String, diskName string) (string, error) {
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@msau42 is this method going to be refactored out as part of the mount utilities refactor?

Also can this be made into a public interface?

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It's not being considered as part of the Mount utils refactor, but we can look into adding this there after the initial refactor is done. Right now, only GCE PD does this kind of checking.

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