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Daniel Hilst 3e302e7f19 test(xcat-core): Introduce BATS & convert shell scripting tests to it
The go-xcat shell behavior tests were written as Perl harnesses, which made the shell assertions harder to read and kept shell-specific setup outside a native shell test framework.

Add BATS to the GitHub Actions dependency set, run BATS tests from the same preserved source tree as the Perl unit suite, and move the go-xcat repository checks into xCAT-test/autotest/bats.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-08 12:57:16 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 796103c300 Merge pull request #7822 from VersatusHPC/fix/go-xcat-el10-repos
fix(go-xcat): check the EPEL and CRB repositories on EL10 as well
2026-09-08 12:02:19 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 8a77a645af Merge pull request #7816 from VersatusHPC/fix/sudoer-postscript-password
fix(sudoer): take the password from the passwd table
2026-09-08 10:29:50 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 01d8de2bc2 fix(go-xcat): check the EPEL and CRB repositories on EL10 as well
The check ran on EL9 only, and only when the version carried a minor number,
so CentOS Stream was never checked. On EL10 a management node without EPEL
or CRB failed inside dnf install with a dependency error instead of the
message that names the missing repository. The CRB message proposed a CentOS
Stream repository file with signature checks disabled, on every
distribution. The probe used dnf list, which an installed copy of the probe
package satisfies with the repository disabled, and which reports a failed
query as a missing repository.

Check EL9 and EL10, with or without a minor version. Probe the enabled
repositories with repoquery for the host architecture and noarch, so a
source repository does not stand in for the binary one, and stop with the
package manager's own error when the query fails. Name the EPEL release
package of the running major version. For CRB, name crb enable from a
current epel-release, which handles Red Hat Enterprise Linux under both
subscription management and RHUI, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and CentOS Stream,
and the dnf config-manager command for Oracle Linux.
2026-09-07 13:40:19 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 4ad9db20a4 refactor(genesis): follow mknb perl style 2026-09-04 18:03:05 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 288ca8b78a fix(genesis): install s390x configs safely 2026-09-04 17:41:08 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão a8c6bd2a4a fix(genesis): harden s390x configurations 2026-09-04 17:15:23 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 9d30f127b5 fix(genesis): simplify s390x network IPL 2026-09-04 16:20:38 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão a1e9948997 fix(genesis): limit s390x boot to validated path 2026-09-04 15:31:33 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 77ada41319 refactor(genesis): keep s390x Perl policy neutral 2026-09-04 14:55:21 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão f549f46b51 fix(genesis): harden s390x boot handoff 2026-09-04 14:42:35 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 5203c17a87 refactor(genesis): clean s390x Perl code 2026-09-04 13:39:50 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão a4109f6865 feat(genesis): add s390x network boot 2026-09-04 12:48:32 -03:00
Daniel Hilst fd580b901f Merge pull request #7817 from VersatusHPC/refactor/debian-arch-map
refactor(debian): map media architectures through a shared table
2026-09-04 11:07:16 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão a712ec33d9 fix(credentials): serve the passwd hash of a node's configured sudoer
getcredentials answered xcat_secure_pw only for root, so a postscript
had no way to get the password of another node account from the passwd
table.

xcat_secure_pw:<user> now returns the password field of the passwd row
key=system,username=<user> when <user> is root or a sudoer named in the
postscripts or postbootscripts of the requesting node, its osimage, or
xcatdefaults. A sudoer without a row or without a password gets the
locked field "!", so the node applies the reply as is. Any other user,
an invalid user name, or a failed hash answers with an error instead of
an empty reply. The root request reads the same row as before and keeps
the error reply for a missing row.
2026-09-03 20:39:08 -03:00
Daniel Hilst e08fe95959 Merge pull request #7799 from VersatusHPC/fix/ipmi-ipv4-literal-guardrail
fix(ipmi): reject ambiguous IPv4 literals
2026-09-03 20:27:14 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 1efeef4895 refactor(genimage): take the debootstrap architecture from the shared mapping
genimage translated one architecture for debootstrap, x86_64 to amd64, and
compared against a bareword rather than a string, which only resolves because
the script does not enable strict subs.

Read the name from xCAT::Utils, which genimage already loads. Every
architecture reaches debootstrap with the name it does today.
2026-09-03 19:44:14 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão bf56116732 refactor(debian): map media architectures through a shared table
copycd translated the architecture the Ubuntu media reports with its own
if/elsif chain, and genimage translates the same names back for debootstrap with
another one. Neither can be reused, so a new architecture has to be added to
both.

Put both directions in xCAT::Utils and have copycd read from there. The names
and the fallback do not change: media that xCAT has no name for still leave the
architecture as the media reported it.
2026-09-03 19:44:13 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 9f4e53e380 Merge pull request #7800 from VersatusHPC/refactor/dhcp-omapi-command-runner
refactor(dhcp): share OMAPI command runner
2026-09-03 19:34:10 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 4312fe8337 refactor(debian): resolve the install kernel and initrd from a table
The probe spelled out every candidate path twice inside one nested condition,
once to test it and once to assign it, so adding an architecture meant adding
another branch of the same shape. Move the candidates into a table keyed by
architecture family and walk it in order.

Same paths, same precedence, same failure behaviour: a media tree that matches
nothing leaves the caller on the "install image not found" path as before.
2026-09-03 18:49:07 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão d1bd0fe576 refactor(dhcp): share OMAPI command runner 2026-09-03 18:13:59 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 362bf5eb9f Merge pull request #7760 from VersatusHPC/fix/ubuntu-mn-ntp-daemon
fix(xcat-core): makentp fails on a stock Ubuntu MN (timesyncd cannot serve time)
2026-09-03 17:54:02 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 7003e0c0b6 Merge pull request #7761 from VersatusHPC/fix/ubuntu-subiquity-diskful-install
fix(xcat-core): the Ubuntu Subiquity diskful install never completes
2026-09-03 17:51:50 -03:00
Daniel Hilst efc3f53dbc Merge pull request #7759 from VersatusHPC/fix/xcatd-respawn-install-monitor
fix(xcat-core): a dead xcatd install monitor never comes back
2026-09-03 16:58:01 -03:00
Daniel Hilst a82d77fbc4 Merge pull request #7758 from VersatusHPC/fix/makedhcp-ubuntu-backend-and-query
fix(dhcp): makedhcp fails on a stock Ubuntu MN, and host-block scans match the wrong node
2026-09-03 16:57:42 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 39eb6ce532 Merge pull request #7767 from VersatusHPC/refactor/commandutils-executable-finder
refactor(utils): centralize executable lookup
2026-09-03 14:55:14 -03:00
Daniel Hilst eff0399a7b Merge pull request #7794 from VersatusHPC/refactor/ipmi-ipv4-command-encoding
fix(ipmi): centralize IPv4 command encoding
2026-09-03 14:53:21 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 05fc81f7b5 fix(subiquity): three values the Ubuntu install path accepts and cannot use
The boot flip in compute.subiquity.tmpl addressed port 3002. xcatd's install
monitor listens on site.xcatiport, so a cluster that moves the port loses the
flip and every node PXE-loops back into the installer. The flip now reads
site.xcatiport and keeps 3002 as the default. TABLEBLANKOKAY, because the key is
optional and a plain TABLE lookup of an absent key fails the whole template.

The flip also counted any reply as an accepted request. It now requires the
monitor's "ready" greeting before it sends "next", and "done" afterwards, so a
different service on that port is not read as a flipped node.

subiquity_nfsroot_server in debian.pm called getipaddr without a family. A
dual-stack management node answers with its IPv6 address, and casper takes
everything after the first colon in nfsroot= as the path, so the live filesystem
never mounts. It now asks for IPv4, as dhcp.pm and mknb.pm do.

The DNS setup wrote the xcatmaster name as a nameserver when getent found no
address, which is the case the step exists to prevent. It now keeps the
resolv.conf DHCP gave the live installer.

ubuntu_subiquity_boot_flip.t, debian_subiquity_boot_params.t and
ubuntu_resolvconf_ip.t fail on the parent commit and pass here.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-03 14:52:49 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 947c624b3c fix(xcat-core): makedhcp -q hides a dhcpd.conf read failure and loses InfiniBand addresses
`makedhcp -q <node>` on Ubuntu's ISC-limited releases answers "no DHCP reservation
found" when it cannot read dhcpd.conf. The operator reads that as a node without a
reservation. An InfiniBand node also gets an answer with no hardware address.

_query_isc_static_host in dhcp.pm read the file with an -r test and dropped a failed
open. It also matched only a "hardware ethernet" line, while _add_isc_static_host
writes "hardware infiniband" for an InfiniBand node and adds a twin declaration
between the same markers.

_read_isc_conf_lines now returns the read error, _query_isc_static_host returns it to
listnode, and listnode answers the caller with an error. The parser accepts any
hardware type and keeps the first declaration of the block. The path of dhcpd.conf and
the distribution name are package variables, so a test can drive the query and
listnode.

dhcp_isc_static_host_query.t covers the InfiniBand address, the twin declaration, the
unreadable file and the listnode answer. It fails without this change.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-03 14:42:51 -03:00
Daniel Hilst a6212e8384 fix(xcat-core): makentp and the NTP selector disagree on when chrony is usable
xCAT::NTP::Backend->available reported chrony as available on chronyd alone, while makentp
configured chrony only where systemctl was present too. On a host with chronyd and no systemctl
the selector returned chrony with no downgrade, makentp fell through to the ntpd path, and the
admin saw either a silent switch or "Please make sure ntpd is installed".

available now requires chronyd and systemctl for chrony, so the selector answers on the same
terms makentp acts on, and makentp branches on the name alone. choose therefore downgrades to
ntpd, or reports install, in the case it used to pass over. A commands argument injects the
command probe, in the same shape as the existing available argument.

ntp_backend_selection.t covers both commands. Six of its assertions fail without this change.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-03 14:40:31 -03:00
Daniel Hilst efa914c5af style(xcat-core): the respawn comments explain more than the code needs
The comments around the install monitor respawn retell the failure, defend the
design and repeat the same causal chain in three places. Reduce them to the
facts that are not visible at the site: the ordering rules, why there is no
attempt limit, and what each fork site inherits. The rest is in the commit
messages and the PR.

Comment only. RespawnUtils.pm loses 26 lines and no code changes; xcatd loses
comment lines only. Both unit test files still pass.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-03 09:22:26 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 424f297d4b fix(xcat-core): the respawned monitor holds client sockets open for good
The respawn is forked from the middle of the service loop, so the child
inherits @pendingconnections -- the client sockets the parent has accepted and
not yet handed to a worker. The monitor never serves one, and it outlives the
worker that does, so its copy keeps that client's socket open until the daemon
exits.

Close them in the child, next to the listener and the rescanplugins channel it
already drops.

xcatd_install_monitor.t runs the lifted respawn block against stand-in
descriptors and requires every pending connection to be closed. It fails
without this change.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-03 09:09:22 -03:00
Daniel Hilst b7c1461f9b fix(xcat-core): a monitor death reaped at startup is never noticed
The install monitor is forked while generic_reaper is the SIGCHLD handler.
ssl_reaper is only installed once the main service loop starts, and
generic_reaper comes back whenever connections are throttled.

Only ssl_reaper cleared $pid_MON. A death reaped by generic_reaper left
$pid_MON holding a dead pid, and the service loop re-forks only when $pid_MON
is clear, so xcatiport stayed dead for the life of the daemon.

Move that accounting into reap_install_monitor and call it from both reapers.

xcatd_install_monitor.t runs both reapers over a dead child and requires each
to clear $pid_MON and fold the death into the pacing. The generic_reaper case
fails without this change.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-03 09:09:22 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 77c1694b03 refactor(utils): centralize executable lookup 2026-09-02 22:57:05 -03:00
Daniel Hilst a11bd9e43d fix(xcat-core): make makedhcp work on a stock Ubuntu management node
Fall back to an available DHCP backend on auto-selection. When the request is "auto"
and the backend chosen for this OS is not installed, use the other one if it is,
recording fallback_from so process_request can tell the operator which preferred
backend is missing. A backend the admin forced through site.dhcpbackend still fails
hard when absent, and "neither installed" still errors clearly. Fixes #7710.

Answer makedhcp -q from the static host block on Ubuntu's ISC-limited releases.
listnode now branches on _isc_static_host_fallback() before any omapi work and reads
the node's fixed-address and hardware ethernet straight out of dhcpd.conf, so the
query path never spawns the omshell its own write paths already avoid. A node with no
reservation is now reported rather than answered with silence.

Match the host-block markers exactly. _add_isc_static_host writes a fully determined
pair -- "#xCAT host declaration for <node> aka host <hostname> start" and the "}"
line carrying the matching end -- so both scans anchor on that whole shape through
shared _isc_host_start_re/_isc_host_end_re helpers. The previous /\Q$node\E\b.*/ also
matched at a hyphen, letting node "compute" act on "compute-01"'s block: the query
could return another node's address and the delete could remove another node's
reservation. _delete_isc_static_host also accepts an explicit line list now, so the
scan is unit testable without file-scoped state.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-02 21:29:33 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 17f5b06106 refactor(confluent): share first-row attribute flattening
Signed-off-by: Vinícius Ferrão <2031761+viniciusferrao@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-02 19:32:29 -03:00
Daniel Hilst c72406cbd1 Merge pull request #7811 from VersatusHPC/fix/xml-parser-entity-expansion
fix(xcatd): refuse an XML request that carries a document type declaration
2026-09-02 19:10:48 -03:00
Daniel Hilst b4579ef459 Merge pull request #7802 from VersatusHPC/refactor/networkutils-ip-validation
refactor(networkutils): remove the legacy validate_ip helper
2026-09-02 15:04:20 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 43495f7e56 refactor(xcatd): build the parser of both entry points in one place
The module overrides two methods of XML::Simple, one for a recent version and
one for an older version, and each built its own parser and set its own
handlers. The two bodies were the same apart from spacing, so a change to one
refusal had to be repeated in the other, and a reader had to compare them to
see that they agreed.

Build the parser in one routine that both call. Behaviour does not change.
2026-09-02 14:11:17 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 63572c5ca1 fix(profilednodes): validate addresses with isValidIp 2026-09-02 12:40:33 -03:00
Daniel Hilst e4b6a408f7 Merge pull request #7810 from VersatusHPC/refactor/netboot-volatile-kernel-arguments
refactor(netboot): centralize volatile kernel arguments
2026-09-02 11:53:39 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 9d3ccb2e54 Merge pull request #7809 from VersatusHPC/refactor/go-xcat-os-release-parser
refactor(go-xcat): centralize os-release parsing
2026-09-02 11:50:21 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 0d6929c427 fix(plugins): mask passwords in plugin log messages
Six modules wrote passwords to their own log and diagnostic messages,
outside the daemon redaction pipeline. The z/VM plugin logged each
smcli command line through printSyslog, with the disk read, write and
multi passwords, the image password, the provision root password and
the page volume parm disk password, passed the real disk passwords to
checkSSH_Rc, which echoes the command to syslog and to the client on
failure, and logged raw directory entries whose USER and MDISK
statements carry the logon and disk passwords. The bmcconfig plugin
logged the BMC password in its attribute report, in syslog and in the
command response. The energy plugin logged the HCP password in a
verbose message, and the CIM utilities dumped the whole HTTP request,
with its basic authorization header, to the verbose callback. The PPC
configuration module logged the HMC, FSP and BPA passwords in its
verbose credential reports.

Mask the passwords in the logged text. The executed commands keep the
real values. The page volume log string is built by operand position,
so a decoy value in another operand cannot divert the mask. The
checkSSH_Rc calls receive the masked command string, as the routine
documentation asks. Add redact_directory_entry to the z/VM utilities.
The routine masks the USER, IDENTITY and IDENT logon password, the
MDISK passwords after the access mode in the range form and in the
DEVNO, V-DISK and T-DISK forms, the APPCPASS statement, and the
keyword password assignments in the short and the full spelling. The
match separators stay on one line, so a record without passwords never
masks the record below it, and one or more comment stars do not hide a
credential record from the rules. The COMMAND statement masks whole,
because it can start any CP command with an inline password. Every directory query sink logs
through it,
and the clone loops redact the query output at the source, because the
failure checker and the retained disk list reuse the text. The
directory helpers keep their raw return value for the callers and hand
a redacted copy to the failure checker. Every error branch that echoes
a fetched record after the output check does so through the redactor,
because a password can spell an error word and trip the check: the
directory fetch, the mini disk keyword fetch, and the four disk list
callers. The CIM dump masks
the authorization header. The bmcconfig report now names the password
state, set or missing, which the report needs for diagnosis.
2026-09-02 01:28:19 -03:00
Daniel Hilst abc45b1f74 fix(postage): restore the provmethod override, and cover mkinstall's call site
The previous commit deleted the $effective_provmethod override on the grounds
that %image_hash never carries a provmethod. That was wrong, and the review
caught it: makescript builds %image_hash, calls getImage() on it, and then
hands the SAME hashref to getScripts(), which fills provmethod for every
osimage from the osimage table. getDisklessNet() already reads that key the
same way. The override was live, not dead.

Restore it and say what is actually true in the comment. nodetype.provmethod is
frequently an osimage name rather than 'install', and resolving it is the point
of the lookup.

Also close the gap that made the wrong deletion so easy to ship: reverting
mkinstall's subiquity branch to its pre-fix body left the whole unit suite
green. debian_mkinstall_subiquity_branch.t lifts that branch out and drives it
inside a real loop, so the `next` it performs is the one under test, with
report_node_error and the getipaddr seam stood in for. It calls
subiquity_boot_params with no injected resolver, exactly as production does.

The branch is selected out of debian.pm by what it contains rather than by
where it sits -- there are four `if (using_subiquity(...))` in that file, and an
earlier draft of this test silently matched the wrong one and ran past its
block.

Now observable, each verified by mutation: swapping $pkgdir and $httpport at
the call site reddens the nfsroot assertion; reverting the branch wholesale
fails the extraction guard rather than passing.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-01 22:28:44 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão b53ffaf190 fix(xcatd): refuse an XML request that carries a document type declaration
The daemon reads the XML of every request through this parser. A request could
declare an entity in its own document type declaration, and the parser expanded
it. An entity that refers to other entities grows on each level, so a short
request expands into a large document and consumes the memory and the time of
the daemon. A client holds a certificate before it can send a request, so this
needs an account, but the daemon should not accept the work.

Refuse the declaration itself. The option that stops the parser from expanding
an entity does not cover an entity that a request names inside an attribute, so
it leaves the same growth available through a different part of the document.
Measured on XML::Parser 2.46, a request of 204 bytes that names its entity in
an attribute still grew to 1014 bytes with that option set, which is what the
parser does without it.

No request that xCAT sends carries a document type declaration. The client
builds every request with XML::Simple, which does not write one.

The handler that refuses an external entity stays, so a parser that reaches it
by another route still refuses to read the named file.
2026-09-01 22:06:39 -03:00
Vinícius Ferrão 7759714c5a refactor(xcatd): drop the XML parser options that never reach the parser
Both parser constructors passed a list of options to XML::Parser as an array
reference:

    XML::Parser->new(Style => 'Tree', [ load_ext_dtd => 0, ... ]);

XML::Parser->new takes a flat list of pairs. The reference is one value in that
list, so the constructor reads the pairs as Style => 'Tree' and then the
reference as the name of an option with no value. Every option inside the
reference is dropped. The names are also the names that XML::LibXML uses, not
the names that XML::Parser uses, so the parser would ignore them even if it
received them.

The options therefore never did anything, and they give the reader the
impression that the parser refuses an external entity because of them. The
handler on the next line is what refuses an external entity.

Remove them. Behaviour does not change.
2026-09-01 21:49:11 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 73ebe96f72 fix(postage): the provmethod override in makescript can never fire
The syncfiles deferral resolved the node's provmethod through
$image_hash{$osimgname}{provmethod} when the node names an osimage. makescript
fills %image_hash from getImage(), which stores pkglist, pkgdir, otherpkglist,
otherpkgdir and environvar -- and no provmethod. getScripts() has a separate
hash that does store one, which is where the pattern was copied from. So the
lookup was always undef, the override never fired, and the code claimed a
behaviour it did not have.

Pass $provmethod directly and say in the comment why there is nothing to
resolve it with. No behaviour changes -- the branch was inert -- so there is no
red to show first; what the deletion needs is coverage that the path it was
supposed to serve still works.

That is what the two new assertions do: an osimage-named provmethod with
nodesetstate 'install' still defers, and the same name with no nodesetstate is
not mistaken for a diskful install. nodesetstate is what carries the install
signal here, which is why the override was never load-bearing. Making the
deferral ignore nodesetstate and require provmethod eq 'install' reddens both.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-01 21:48:54 -03:00
Daniel Hilst b784aa782c fix(debian): connect the subiquity helpers to mkinstall, and close the sandbox guard
Two things the review found, both in code added by this branch.

Reverting mkinstall's call site -- putting xCAT::NetworkUtils->getipaddr back
in place of subiquity_nfsroot_server, the exact regression the fix removes --
left the entire unit suite green. The helpers were covered; nothing linked them
to production. Compose the two steps in subiquity_boot_params(), which takes its
inputs and returns either a command line or the reason there isn't one, so the
composition can be driven; mkinstall keeps report_node_error and the loop's
`next`. That same revert now reddens 6 of 9 assertions.

The test stubs xCAT::NetworkUtils::getipaddr deliberately. Without it a call
site that bypassed the injected resolver died on a missing module -- a red, but
for the wrong reason. With it, bypassing the resolver returns the wrong answer,
which is what the assertions are there to catch.

The resolv.conf sandbox guard matched `/etc/` with a trailing slash, so the one
respelling its own comment names -- `etcdir=/etc; rm -f "$etcdir/resolv.conf"`
-- walked straight past it and the fragment would rm the runner's real
resolv.conf, as root in CI. `/etc\b` catches it: applying that respelling now
BAIL_OUTs instead of running.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-01 21:09:31 -03:00
Daniel Hilst 49e77398e4 fix(xcat-core): supervise() lets SIGCHLD back in before the caller has the pid
supervise() blocks SIGCHLD across the fork but unblocks it before returning, and the caller
installs the pid afterwards:

    ($mon_respawn, $pid_MON) = xCAT::RespawnUtils::supervise { ... } ...;

so the assignment is outside the blocked region -- the same unprotected window that existed
before e0b0ac6, moved from xcatd into the helper that was meant to make it impossible to get
wrong. ssl_reaper matches the dead child against $pid_MON and folds the death into
$mon_respawn; a monitor dying in that gap is compared against a pid still holding 0, missed,
and the caller then overwrites both with a pid that no longer exists. !$pid_MON never fires
again, so the respawn loop never runs and xcatiport stays dead until xcatd is restarted --
the failure this PR exists to remove.

Have supervise() install them itself, which is why `state` and `pid` are now passed by
reference: the pacing state is recorded and the pid assigned while SIGCHLD is still blocked,
and only then is it unblocked, so there is no point at which a reaper can run and see either
of them stale. Nothing is left for the caller to do afterwards, so both call sites become
plain statements that read $pid_MON when they need it. The child unblocks before running its
body, as it did when the unblock sat ahead of the fork's branch. The new pid is returned as
well, for a caller that wants it inline.

Verified on a live MN (xcat54-mn, AlmaLinux 10.2, xCAT 2.19.0): the startup fork produces a
monitor holding xcatiport 3002; killing it is recovered in 5s, killing the replacement at
once in 11s -- the backoff -- and killing one that had served past the healthy interval is
recovered in 1s, with the port reclaimed and xcatd active throughout. The unit test's window
subtest, red in the preceding commit, now passes.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-01 20:02:18 -03:00
Daniel Hilst c62434d22d refactor(xcat-core): the fork-and-account sequence is open-coded at both fork sites
Both places that fork the install monitor repeat the same careful sequence: record the
attempt, block SIGCHLD, fork, unblock, and on failure record the exit so the next attempt
backs off. Two of those steps are ordering requirements rather than steps -- the attempt
must be recorded before the fork, because the child can die and be reaped before fork()
returns, and SIGCHLD must be blocked across the fork and the assignment, or the reaper
compares the dead child against a stale pid and misses it. Neither is apparent from
reading the code, and both were got wrong at least once while writing it. Leaving them
open-coded means the next caller -- $pid_UDP has the same never-respawned shape -- gets to
rediscover them.

Move the sequence into xCAT::RespawnUtils::supervise(), which takes the child body as a
block and the rest as named arguments:

    ($mon_respawn, $pid_MON) = supervise {
        ...the child...
    } state => $mon_respawn, pid => $pid_MON, now => time();

The (&@) prototype is what allows the leading block, and it applies to a fully qualified
call, so no Exporter machinery is needed. It does require the module to be loaded with
`use` rather than `require`: under `require` the sub is unknown when the call is compiled,
the block is then read as a bare block and its value arrives as the first argument, which
fails at runtime rather than at compile time. Both call sites and the test use `use`, and
the constraint is written down next to the sub. Passing a live pid is a no-op, so a caller
that forgets to check does not end up with two children.

The module gains its first impure function, which is why it sits under its own heading with
the pure ones stated to be pure above it: those return new state and touch nothing, which is
what keeps them testable on a made-up clock and safe inside a signal handler. supervise()
forks, so it is tested by the fork-and-port case instead, which now drives it rather than
its own copy of the same sequence. POSIX and xCAT::Utils are required inside supervise()
rather than at the top, so loading the module for the pure functions still pulls in nothing.

xcatd loses $mon_chldmask and its :signal_h import along with the duplication.

Verified on a live MN: the startup fork goes through supervise() and produces a monitor
holding xcatiport, and two consecutive kills are recovered in 5s then 10s -- the backoff --
with the port reclaimed and the SSL listener holding its pid throughout.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-01 20:02:18 -03:00