uevent: should respawn the uevent monitor

    - NDM could not work w/o uevent monitor
    - add `inject-udev-monitor-error` for testing
    - Inject udev monitor error with CI

Signed-off-by: Vicente Cheng <[email protected]>

ci/charts/ndm-override.yaml

@@ -5,4 +5,7 @@ image:
   tag: ""
 
 autoProvisionFilter: [/dev/sd*]
-debug: true
+debug: true
+
+# we only manually inject udev monitor error once, so we can test it in CI.
+injectUdevMonitorError: true

main.go

@@ -133,6 +133,13 @@ func main() {
 			DefaultText: "5",
 			Destination: &opt.MaxConcurrentOps,
 		},
+		&cli.BoolFlag{
+			Name:        "inject-udev-monitor-error",
+			EnvVars:     []string{"NDM_INJECT_UDEV_MONITOR_ERROR"},
+			Usage:       "Inject error when monitoring udev events",
+			Value:       false,
+			Destination: &opt.InjectUdevMonitorError,
+		},
 	}
 
 	app.Action = func(c *cli.Context) error {
@@ -171,8 +178,8 @@ func initLogs(opt *option.Option) {
 	logrus.SetOutput(os.Stdout)
 	logrus.Infof("Node Disk Manager %s is starting", version.FriendlyVersion())
 	logrus.Infof("Notable parameters are following:")
-	logrus.Infof("Namespace: %s, ConcurrentOps: %d, RescanInterval: %d",
-		opt.Namespace, opt.MaxConcurrentOps, opt.RescanInterval)
+	logrus.Infof("Namespace: %s, ConcurrentOps: %d, RescanInterval: %d, InjectUdevMonitorError: %v",
+		opt.Namespace, opt.MaxConcurrentOps, opt.RescanInterval, opt.InjectUdevMonitorError)
 	if opt.Debug {
 		logrus.SetLevel(logrus.DebugLevel)
 		logrus.Debugf("Loglevel set to [%v]", logrus.DebugLevel)

pkg/option/option.go

@@ -6,14 +6,15 @@ type Option struct {
 	NodeName    string
 	Threadiness int
 
-	Debug               bool
-	Trace               bool
-	LogFormat           string
-	ProfilerAddress     string
-	VendorFilter        string
-	PathFilter          string
-	LabelFilter         string
-	AutoProvisionFilter string
-	RescanInterval      int64
-	MaxConcurrentOps    uint
+	Debug                  bool
+	Trace                  bool
+	LogFormat              string
+	ProfilerAddress        string
+	VendorFilter           string
+	PathFilter             string
+	LabelFilter            string
+	AutoProvisionFilter    string
+	RescanInterval         int64
+	MaxConcurrentOps       uint
+	InjectUdevMonitorError bool
 }

pkg/udev/uevent.go

@@ -19,28 +19,45 @@ import (
 )
 
 type Udev struct {
-	namespace string
-	nodeName  string
-	startOnce sync.Once
-	scanner   *blockdevice.Scanner
+	namespace   string
+	nodeName    string
+	startOnce   sync.Once
+	scanner     *blockdevice.Scanner
+	injectError bool
 }
 
 func NewUdev(opt *option.Option, scanner *blockdevice.Scanner) *Udev {
 	return &Udev{
-		startOnce: sync.Once{},
-		namespace: opt.Namespace,
-		nodeName:  opt.NodeName,
-		scanner:   scanner,
+		startOnce:   sync.Once{},
+		namespace:   opt.Namespace,
+		nodeName:    opt.NodeName,
+		scanner:     scanner,
+		injectError: opt.InjectUdevMonitorError,
 	}
 }
 
 func (u *Udev) Monitor(ctx context.Context) {
-	u.startOnce.Do(func() {
-		u.monitor(ctx)
-	})
+	// we need to respawn the monitor with any error.
+	// because any error will break the monitor loop.
+	errChan := make(chan error)
+	go u.spawnMonitor(ctx, errChan)
+
 }
 
-func (u *Udev) monitor(ctx context.Context) {
+func (u *Udev) spawnMonitor(ctx context.Context, errChan chan error) {
+	go u.monitor(ctx, errChan)
+	for {
+		select {
+		case err := <-errChan:
+			logrus.Errorf("failed to monitor udev events, error: %s", err.Error())
+			go u.monitor(ctx, errChan)
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func (u *Udev) monitor(ctx context.Context, errors chan error) {
 	logrus.Infoln("Start monitoring udev processed events")
 
 	matcher, err := getOptionalMatcher(nil)
@@ -55,16 +72,24 @@ func (u *Udev) monitor(ctx context.Context) {
 	defer conn.Close()
 
 	uqueue := make(chan netlink.UEvent)
-	errors := make(chan error)
-	quit := conn.Monitor(uqueue, errors, matcher)
-
+	errChan := make(chan error)
+	quit := conn.Monitor(uqueue, errChan, matcher)
+
+	// simulator the error from udev monitor
+	if u.injectError {
+		logrus.Infof("Injecting error to udev monitor for testing")
+		errors <- fmt.Errorf("testing error")
+		u.injectError = false
+		return
+	}
 	// Handling message from udev queue
 	for {
 		select {
 		case uevent := <-uqueue:
 			u.ActionHandler(uevent)
-		case err := <-errors:
-			logrus.Errorf("failed to parse udev event, error: %s", err.Error())
+		case err := <-errChan:
+			errors <- err
+			return
 		case <-ctx.Done():
 			close(quit)
 			return