Stream: git-wasmtime

Topic: wasmtime / Issue #1199 Implement path_link for Windows.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 04 2020 at 17:47):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

You're right. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the error locally, the tests always succeed. I'm running the tests on Windows 10, they succeed both when run through msys64 ssh and windowed cmd (as administrator). I'm using cargo test --features test_programs --package test-programs but the full CI command succeeds too.

Could you try and see if you can reproduce it?

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 04 2020 at 19:24):

peterhuene commented on Issue #1199:

I'll see if I can reproduce it.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 04 2020 at 19:57):

peterhuene commented on Issue #1199:

I'm unable to reproduce the failure locally as well. I tried rerunning the GitHub actions jobs, but that apparently is broken (seems to checkout the wasmtime repo and then try to checkout your HEAD, but it obviously isn't in the history :shrug:‍♂).

The expect message of removing a subdirectory only appears in path_link which should still be ignored, so I'm not sure how we saw that in the log.

To restart CI, let's rebase this branch off of master and push it up.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 04 2020 at 20:33):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

I rebased upon latest master

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 04 2020 at 20:33):

marmistrz edited a comment on Issue #1199:

I rebased upon latest master. The message is coming from path_link_nonstrict.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 04 2020 at 21:09):

kubkon commented on Issue #1199:

Oh, strip_trailing_slashes_and_concatenate is there to correctly account for the case where old_path is a file, and new_path contains a trailing slash. On POSIX (and in WASI), as far as I remember, if new_path exists on the host but without the trailing slash, we expect in this case an EEXIST error code. On Windows, this is not respected in the same way, hence why the additional check.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 04 2020 at 21:10):

kubkon commented on Issue #1199:

As far as mapping of error codes is concerned, yeah, MSDN is not very instructive. When I was figuring out path_symlink and path_rename, it was mostly the case of trial and error unfortunately.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 04 2020 at 21:12):

kubkon commented on Issue #1199:

Also, thanks for the link! I'll need to investigate MacOS a bit further I think!

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 06 2020 at 10:45):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

I tried to integrate those two tests into one and it appears that creating dangling symlinks doesn't fail when it should. I'll need to see why.

The previous version of the branch is available here: https://github.com/marmistrz/wasmtime/tree/path_link_old

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 12 2020 at 17:11):

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view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 13 2020 at 20:58):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

There's good news! I managed to implement path_link for Windows so that it passes the original path_link test case (with minor test case modifications only, most notably explicit fd_close).

Bad news: I'm still getting this weird unreproducible failure on Windows CI. I force pushed to restart the CI, but I don't expect wonders here. (restarting the CI through the web UI results in a checkout failure for some reason)

Do you have any ideas why? @peterhuene, you asked me to rebase upon latest master the previous time, did you have anything specific in mind?

I'm currently basing on code introduced in #1284, which needs to be merged first.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 18 2020 at 18:49):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

@kubkon can you please explain what's the mapping ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED -> EEXIST? When can such a situation occur?

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 18 2020 at 20:03):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

ping, do you have an idea how to debug this mysterious CI failure?

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 18 2020 at 20:06):

marmistrz edited a comment on Issue #1199:

ping, do you have an idea how to try to reproduce this mysterious CI failure?

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 18 2020 at 20:07):

marmistrz edited a comment on Issue #1199:

ping, do you have an idea how to reproduce this mysterious CI failure?

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 18 2020 at 20:12):

peterhuene commented on Issue #1199:

Perhaps the test can print out the directory contents before attempting to delete it so we can gain some visibility into the problem (assuming the "not empty" error is correct)? I can't think of a good reason why this would be failing in CI and not locally.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 18 2020 at 20:26):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

Heh, good ol' debuggin by println :) I'm going to try.

@peterhuene What was the thing you had in mind in https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/1199#issuecomment-594798453? (if you still remember) Was it just _let's try and restart the CI and see if it helps_ sort of thing?

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 18 2020 at 20:29):

peterhuene commented on Issue #1199:

It was a suggestion to just see if was a transient problem or not. I didn't have a fix in mind that the rebase itself would have brought in, just something we could use to change the HEAD for the PR branch to kick off CI again (I've had problems doing so directly via the GitHub UI).

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 25 2020 at 13:26):

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view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 25 2020 at 15:29):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

Good news! I have managed to isolate the cause of the mysterious CI failures.

It appears that after calling fd_fdstat_get on a file the file will not properly be removed (internally, path_unlink_file uses fs::remove_file). This would manifest itself in two ways: (1) path_remove_directory would fail due to the directory (2) if we skipped that part of the test, an attempt to create another file with the same name would fail due, due to permission having been denied

Support for fd_fdstat_get on Windows was introduced in https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/557. @peterhuene, since the call was implemented by you, could you take this over from me at this point? I also suggest we disable the checks using fd_fdstat_get until it's figured out.

The change is mostly ready. I'm still not sure if the ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED conversion is still needed, but this is basically discussed in #1359. Should it be the only blocker, I'm fine with removing it for now and possibly adding it back if we decide it's needed in #1359.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 25 2020 at 17:35):

peterhuene commented on Issue #1199:

I don't particularly see how the problem lies with fd_fdstat_get. I double checked and it's not inadvertently leaking any handles.

I do see how the test was missing calls to fd_close before the attempts to unlink the files and directories, which is required on Windows.

If we uncomment the fd_fdstat_get calls with the rest of the changes, the test will still fail? I can't explain that, but I'll look into it.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 25 2020 at 18:40):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

If we uncomment the following lines: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/1199/files#diff-6242b29603dfbc39ebbd9f3e58dde615R98-R102
the tests will fail in the CI (but not locally). I have absolutely no idea why this could happen.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Mar 25 2020 at 18:41):

marmistrz edited a comment on Issue #1199:

If we uncomment the following lines: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/pull/1199/files#diff-6242b29603dfbc39ebbd9f3e58dde615R98-R102
the tests will fail in the CI (but not locally). I have absolutely no idea why this could happen, I've checked the source too.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Apr 01 2020 at 07:00):

kubkon commented on Issue #1199:

@peterhuene @marmistrz did you manage to work out what the problem is? If not, what do you think the next steps should be both wrt the problem and this PR?

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Apr 01 2020 at 22:54):

peterhuene commented on Issue #1199:

I haven't yet determined the problem and I have no educated guesses since the commented out lines should have absolutely no impact on handle reference counts that might keep things from being deleted properly.

@marmistrz when you get a chance, can you uncomment out the problematic lines and push it up for CI to fail again? I'd like to investigate the log just a little more.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Apr 01 2020 at 23:56):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

I thought about merging this PR as-is and letting @peterhuene figure out what's wrong with fdstat in a subsequent PR. But for now, I'll add a comment uncommenting the problematic lines.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Apr 02 2020 at 00:27):

peterhuene commented on Issue #1199:

So it looks like it is passing Windows CI with the uncommented lines. Perhaps the other fix to properly close the handles before unlinking was what actually resolved the issue?

I think we can leave it uncommented and remove the preceding comments about the lines being a problem. I'll go ahead with a review.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Apr 02 2020 at 17:11):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

So it looks like it is passing Windows CI with the uncommented lines. Perhaps the other fix to properly close the handles before unlinking was what actually resolved the issue?

Absolutely no idea. Perhaps some cleanup I did after removing the fdstats interfered. Anyway, I'm happy that this mysterious failure is gone. I will push out the review changes in several steps.

I'm still unsure about point 2 in non-strictness:

2\. `path_link` will return `EACCES` instead of `EPERM` when trying to create a link to a subdirectory. This violates the POSIX spec. We could manually check if the source path is a directory in case of `ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED` but this would cost us an extra syscall.

Should I correct this in the error mappings or do we prefer to avoid the extra syscall?

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Apr 02 2020 at 17:18):

kubkon commented on Issue #1199:

So it looks like it is passing Windows CI with the uncommented lines. Perhaps the other fix to properly close the handles before unlinking was what actually resolved the issue?

Absolutely no idea. Perhaps some cleanup I did after removing the fdstats interfered. Anyway, I'm happy that this mysterious failure is gone. I will push out the review changes in several steps.

I'm still unsure about point 2 in non-strictness:

2\. `path_link` will return `EACCES` instead of `EPERM` when trying to create a link to a subdirectory. This violates the POSIX spec. We could manually check if the source path is a directory in case of `ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED` but this would cost us an extra syscall.

Should I correct this in the error mappings or do we prefer to avoid the extra syscall?

I think we should be fine either way. We should be fine with an additional syscall since we already do that in path::symlink anyway.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Apr 02 2020 at 17:22):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

So it looks like it is passing Windows CI with the uncommented lines. Perhaps the other fix to properly close the handles before unlinking was what actually resolved the issue?

Absolutely no idea. Perhaps some cleanup I did after removing the fdstats interfered. Anyway, I'm happy that this mysterious failure is gone. I will push out the review changes in several steps.
I'm still unsure about point 2 in non-strictness:

2\. `path_link` will return `EACCES` instead of `EPERM` when trying to create a link to a subdirectory. This violates the POSIX spec. We could manually check if the source path is a directory in case of `ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED` but this would cost us an extra syscall.

Should I correct this in the error mappings or do we prefer to avoid the extra syscall?

I think we should be fine either way. We should be fine with an additional syscall since we already do that in path::symlink anyway.

@peterhuene and what do you think?

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Apr 02 2020 at 18:04):

peterhuene commented on Issue #1199:

I'm :+1: on what you now have.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Apr 02 2020 at 20:12):

marmistrz commented on Issue #1199:

Awesome! Then, unless anything comes up, I'm merging the PR tomorrow evening CET.

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