fix(nvsnap): recreate the source's runtime directories on warm restore - #945
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A workload started with a shell preamble that creates a runtime directory
fails on warm restore. vLLM TP=4 dies ~55s in with
zmq.error.ZMQError: No such file or directory for ipc path
"/var/run/vllm/<uuid>"
because /var/run/vllm does not exist in the restored container.
The setup step is missing because restore execs the capture-recorded
entry argv, read from /proc/<pid>/cmdline -- the process image AFTER any
exec. Bash runs the mkdir as a child and then, via its last-command exec
optimization, replaces itself with the engine, so at capture time PID 1
is the engine and the mkdir is nowhere in the process image. The
recorded manifest confirms it: entry_argv starts at /usr/bin/python3
with no bash and no mkdir, and the restored pod logs "APIServer pid=1".
Preferring the Pod's command/args instead is not viable -- ENTRYPOINT-only
images (NIM, whisper) carry only args, or nothing, in the Pod spec, so
exec'ing those drops the image entrypoint binary. That is already
documented in rootfs_l2_overlay.go from a previously observed failure.
Since the commands are unrecoverable, record their result: capture walks
the source container's /run and /var/run and stamps the directories, with
mode and ownership, into the manifest; the restore shim recreates them
before exec on both warm paths. Bounded to 64 entries and depth 4, and
scoped to those two roots -- they hold runtime scaffolding rather than
data, so recreating them empty is cheap and cannot mask a missing volume.
Captures taken before this keep working: the env var is absent and the
shim skips the step.
Closes #942
Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 5 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe capture flow records runtime directory metadata in the checkpoint manifest. Restore webhooks pass this metadata to the restore shim. The shim recreates validated directories with permissions and ownership before workload execution in both restore modes. ChangesRuntime directory restore
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change recreates recorded runtime directories during warm restore while preserving backward compatibility; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains at the current head. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EntrypointProcess
participant RootfsOnlyOrchestrator
participant CheckpointManifest
participant RestoreWebhook
participant RootfsRestoreShim
participant RestoredRootFilesystem
RootfsOnlyOrchestrator->>EntrypointProcess: inspect /run and /var/run
EntrypointProcess-->>RootfsOnlyOrchestrator: runtime directory metadata
RootfsOnlyOrchestrator->>CheckpointManifest: store EntryRuntimeDirs
RestoreWebhook->>RootfsRestoreShim: provide NVSNAP_RUNTIME_DIRS
RootfsRestoreShim->>RestoredRootFilesystem: recreate directories
RootfsRestoreShim->>RestoredRootFilesystem: execute workload
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/cmd/nvsnap-rootfs-restore/main_test.go`:
- Around line 164-183: Strengthen TestRecreateRuntimeDirsIgnoresBadInput by
creating traversal inputs under t.TempDir and asserting their normalized escape
targets are absent after recreateRuntimeDirs. Keep malformed, wrong-type,
relative, and parent-escape cases as non-failing inputs, while ensuring the test
cannot affect host paths such as /etc.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/cmd/nvsnap-rootfs-restore/main.go`:
- Around line 190-203: Update the directory-mode handling in the restore flow so
a recorded mode of 0000 is preserved rather than replaced with 0755. Remove or
revise the mode-zero fallback, and only apply a default when omitted-field
compatibility is explicitly detectable through separate presence tracking.
In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/rootfsonly/orchestrator.go`:
- Around line 688-690: Update the filepath.WalkDir callback in the
runtime-directory collection flow so reaching maxRuntimeDirs returns the
traversal-termination error rather than nil; retain the existing skip behavior
for already-seen paths. Add a high-fanout test that confirms traversal stops
once the directory cap is reached.
- Around line 671-676: Update the runtime-root resolution loop around
filepath.EvalSymlinks to interpret absolute symlink targets relative to
containerRoot, not the caller’s filesystem namespace, and reject any resolved
path that escapes containerRoot before recording it. Add a regression test
covering a container /var/run symlink to /run and verify restore uses paths
within the workload root.
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| mode := os.FileMode(d.Mode).Perm() | ||
| if mode == 0 { | ||
| mode = 0o755 | ||
| } | ||
| if err := os.MkdirAll(d.Path, mode); err != nil { | ||
| fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "nvsnap-rootfs-restore: runtime dir %s: %v\n", d.Path, err) | ||
| continue | ||
| } | ||
| // MkdirAll applies the umask, so set the recorded mode explicitly -- | ||
| // a group-writable runtime dir must stay writable for a workload that | ||
| // drops privileges after start. | ||
| if err := os.Chmod(d.Path, mode); err != nil { | ||
| fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "nvsnap-rootfs-restore: chmod %s: %v\n", d.Path, err) | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Preserve an explicitly recorded 0000 mode.
Line 191 treats a recorded zero mode as absent and restores it as 0755. The capture path always serializes Mode, so a source directory with mode 0000 loses its access policy during restore.
Preserve zero permission bits. If compatibility requires a default for an omitted JSON field, represent field presence separately.
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In `@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/cmd/nvsnap-rootfs-restore/main.go` around
lines 190 - 203, Update the directory-mode handling in the restore flow so a
recorded mode of 0000 is preserved rather than replaced with 0755. Remove or
revise the mode-zero fallback, and only apply a default when omitted-field
compatibility is explicitly detectable through separate presence tracking.
Review found three problems with the runtime-directory capture. The walk canonicalized its root with EvalSymlinks. /proc/<pid>/root is a magic link, not an ordinary symlink, so resolving it rewrites the path to the equivalent HOST path: the walk left the container's view and would have recorded the node's own /run tree as if it belonged to the pod, then recreated those directories inside restored containers. Walk the /proc/<pid>/root path as given instead. WalkDir does not follow symlinks, which also gives the /var/run -> /run dedupe for free. The entry cap only stopped recording, not walking, so a workload with a large /run still paid the full traversal. Return SkipAll at the cap. Restore widened an explicitly recorded 0000 directory to 0755, losing the source's access policy. Create with 0755 so intermediate parents are traversable, then chmod to the recorded mode. Restore also guarded paths with a "contains .." check, which is both too weak and beside the point: this runs as root in the workload's mount namespace, so it must not be a general create-any-directory primitive. Confine it to the same roots capture collects from and require an already clean path. The test that was supposed to cover traversal built its input with filepath.Join, which normalizes ".." away -- so it asserted nothing and passed against a guard that did not block traversal. Build the string by concatenation, assert the escape target is absent afterwards, and cover outside-root and prefix-lookalike inputs. Adds a high-fanout test for the cap and depth/missing-root tests for the walk. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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`@src/compute-plane-services/nvsnap/internal/rootfsonly/entry_runtime_dirs_test.go`:
- Line 30: Remove the unused pid parameter from fakeContainerRoot and update all
call sites accordingly; use the existing fixed fixture PID behavior
consistently.
- Around line 53-59: Update the test around readEntryRuntimeDirs and
recordedPaths to retain each entry’s Mode, UID, and GID instead of reducing
results to path presence. Configure one fixture directory with a non-default
mode, then assert the captured metadata matches that source directory’s mode,
UID, and GID while preserving the existing path assertions.
- Around line 66-70: Strengthen the depth-boundary test around recordedPaths and
readEntryRuntimeDirs by asserting that /run/a/b/c/d is included while deeper
paths remain excluded. Update the cap test to require len(got) to equal
maxRuntimeDirs exactly, rather than accepting any smaller count.
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The BUILD-files-match-their-sources check regenerates with gazelle and diffs; the new test file was missing from go_test srcs. checkpointstore is already in deps, so srcs is the only change. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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…a change CaptureFormatVersion feeds the capture hash precisely so a manifest schema change invalidates older captures. Adding EntryRuntimeDirs changed the schema without bumping it, so a capture taken before the fix hashes identically to one taken after. The consequence is worse than a stale artifact. On upgrade the agent finds the old hash, short-circuits with "capture skipped: hash already exists", and reports a successful commit of zero files -- so every existing deployment would keep replaying pre-fix captures, and the workloads this change exists to fix would keep failing with no signal as to why. Bumping to 2 makes captures taken by the fixed agent hash differently, so they are retaken once and the recorded runtime directories are present. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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…ist drift Two review findings on the scope script. find failures were discarded, so an unreadable or missing tree yielded an empty java_roots list rather than an error. A changed Java BUILD.bazel would then match nothing and score false, skipping the check for exactly the change the Java rule exists to catch. Discovery failure now returns true and stops. find also exits non-zero on a partial result, so a truncated list is caught the same way. Tested against a missing root and an unreadable subdirectory. The second finding was that an unmatched path should score true. Taken literally that removes the feature: every pull request touches ordinary source, so any unmatched path forcing a run makes the answer always true. The concern underneath it is real though, and was unguarded: the risk is not an unknown path, it is this allowlist falling behind the collector. Add a manifest to tools/collect-dependencies without updating the script and changes to it are scoped out silently. So the test now compares the two. Every manifest-shaped literal in the collector must be either matched by the scope script or listed with a reason it cannot change the output. Confirmed it fails by adding a "uv.lock" literal to the collector and watching the check reject it. That guard immediately found a real gap: imports.yaml was matched only as an exact root path. Nested ones are not read today, but matching by name costs nothing and removes a special case. 55 checks pass. Scope decisions for the change sets of #945 and #834 are unchanged. Co-authored-by: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
Review found the tests could pass against a walk that did less than it should. The metadata was discarded before asserting, so recording zero mode or ownership went unnoticed -- and restore recreates directories from those fields, so a zero mode produces a directory the workload cannot write to. Set a non-default mode on a fixture and compare mode, uid and gid against the source. The depth test only asserted absence beyond the bound, and the cap test accepted any count up to the maximum. A walk that stopped early, or recorded nothing at all, satisfied both. Assert the boundary directory is present, and that the cap yields exactly maxRuntimeDirs. Also drop the pid parameter that every caller passed the same value for, which the unparam linter flags. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Why
A workload started with a shell preamble that creates a runtime directory fails on warm restore. vLLM TP=4 dies ~55s into the restored pod with
because
/var/run/vllmdoes not exist in the restored container.The setup step is missing for a non-obvious reason. Restore execs the capture-recorded entry argv, read from
/proc/<pid>/cmdline-- which is the process image AFTER any exec. Bash runs themkdiras a child and then, via its last-command exec optimization, replaces itself with the engine. So by capture time PID 1 is the engine and themkdiris nowhere in the process image; it cannot be recovered from argv at all.Both artifacts confirm it rather than infer it. The recorded manifest:
entry_argv: ["/usr/bin/python3", "/usr/local/bin/vllm", "serve", "--model", ...]no bash, no mkdir. And the restored pod logs
APIServer pid=1, i.e. the engine really is PID 1.The obvious alternative -- prefer the Pod's
command/argsover the recorded argv -- is not viable, androotfs_l2_overlay.goalready documents why from a previously observed failure: ENTRYPOINT-only images (NIM, whisper) carry only args, or nothing, in the Pod spec, so exec'ing those drops the image entrypoint binary and launches the wrong thing.What changed
Since the commands are unrecoverable, record their result instead:
/runand/var/runand stamps the directories into the manifest asEntryRuntimeDirs, carrying mode and ownership so a workload that drops privileges can still write inside them.pivot_rooton the overlay path, so the paths resolve in the restored tree./tmpis deliberately excluded.Best-effort throughout: a directory that cannot be created is reported and skipped rather than failing the restore, since most workloads need none of them.
Customer Release Notes
Warm restore now works for workloads whose entrypoint creates a runtime directory (for example a unix-socket directory) before starting.
Plan Summary
Not applicable.
Usage
Not applicable.
Testing
go build ./...clean;cmd/nvsnap-rootfs-restore,internal/webhook,internal/rootfsonly,internal/checkpointstorepass. New unit tests cover the vLLM case and the malformed/hostile-input skips.Not yet run end to end on a cluster: it needs an agent build plus a fresh capture, because the manifest field is only populated at capture time. The existing vLLM TP=4 capture predates the field, so it will exercise the old-capture path (env var absent, step skipped) rather than the fix. Flagging that explicitly rather than implying it is validated.
Notes
Backward compatible: captures taken before this have no recorded directories, the env var is absent, and the shim skips the step.
Related gap noticed while tracing this, not addressed here:
entry_cwdis recorded as null for the same capture, soNVSNAP_ORIG_CWDis empty and restore falls back to/.References
Closes #942
Related Pull Requests
#937 touches an adjacent constant in
restore_entrypoint.go; no functional overlap.Dependencies
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Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
/runand/var/run, including permissions and ownership.Bug Fixes