A rebooted clone and a disk-only clone keep the source VM's balloon device - #1055
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…evice A VM started with --balloon lost the device in two cold boots made from its snapshots: a restored clone's relaunch after a guest reboot, and the boot of a disk-only clone. Both synthesize their RunArgs from the snapshot's metadata, the metadata did not record the balloon, and run_args_from_snapshot_metadata wrote `balloon: None` (#1052). The balloon target is now recorded in the VM's state (VmConfig::balloon_mib) and in every snapshot of it (SnapshotMetadata::balloon_mib). A clone's state takes the snapshot's value. run_args_from_snapshot_metadata takes the target as a parameter: the reboot relaunch passes the clone's recorded target and the disk-only boot passes the snapshot's. A memory restore is unchanged; its device comes back with the VMM state. The snapshot key is unchanged. A snapshot or state file written before the field existed reads as no balloon, so cold boots from it attach no device, as before. That includes a cache snapshot: a `podman run --balloon` that restores from one written by an older build runs with the device and records none, until the cache snapshot is pruned. FirecrackerClient gains a GET helper and balloon_stats() for GET /balloon/statistics. The new VM tests read the device through it (common::balloon_stats_by_pid). Tested: On x86_64, as root, rootless networking. make _test-root FILTER="-E 'test(=test_restored_clone_reboot_keeps_its_balloon) | test(=test_disk_only_clone_keeps_the_balloon)'" STREAM=1 Without the change (fields and tests compiled in, behaviour absent) both fail after the cold boot, past their controls, with "Firecracker API error: 400 Bad Request ... Device not found". With it: 2 tests run: 2 passed. make test-unit FILTER="-E 'test(/run_args_from_metadata_carry_the_balloon|a_snapshot_records_its_vms_balloon|balloon_target_survives|firecracker_balloon_statistics_request_and_reply/)'" Without the change: 5 failed (None where Some(512) is expected; for the wire and persistence tests under a mutation of the path and of the field's serde attribute). With it: 5 passed. make fmt (no change), make clippy (clean). make test-unit: 1419 run, 1416 passed, 3 failed at a load average of 250 to 290 on 192 CPUs: two uffd timing tests, and the dependency fixture test, which fails when cargo is forced offline, as it was for that run. Those three and two that passed only on a retry all pass, run alone at a load near 100 with cargo not forced offline, on this tree and on 80767bb. On this tree at a load near 270 two of the timing tests fail. Not run: the full make test-root, arm64, Cloud Hypervisor.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughVM state and snapshot metadata now store an optional balloon target. Disk-only clones and reboot relaunches pass the recorded target into synthesized run arguments. The Firecracker API adds a balloon statistics endpoint, with tests for target persistence, API responses, and timeouts. ChangesBalloon snapshot preservation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to A balloon-enabled VM restored from an older cache snapshot may lose its balloon on a later reboot. This is a narrow, recoverable case, but the cache-restore state should retain the requested target. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The inspected changes preserve configuration across restarts without visibly expanding access or privileges. Older saved configurations retain their previous limitations, and deployment-wide behavior has not been fully validated. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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Review follow-ups to the balloon change (#1052). FirecrackerClient::get timed only the wait for the response head and then read the body with no deadline, so a VMM that sent the head and stalled hung balloon_stats() for good. put and patch had the same gap when they read the body of an error reply. The three helpers now share one request function whose deadline covers the head and the body. put and patch read the reply's body on success as well; Firecracker sends none with its 204. The two balloon bodies take Firecracker's names: the PATCH /balloon/statistics body is BalloonStatsUpdate (was BalloonStats) and the GET /balloon/statistics reply is BalloonStats (was BalloonStatistics). BalloonStats loses actual_mib, which nothing read. tests/test_balloon_call_sites.rs pins the five statements that carry a VM's balloon target to the cold boots made from its snapshots: the state taking --balloon, a restored VM's state taking the snapshot's record, the reboot plan's argument and its forward to the synthesized RunArgs, and the disk-only boot's argument. Dropping any of them compiled and left `make test-unit` green; only the two VM tests saw it. test_restored_clone_reboot_keeps_its_balloon runs reboot_and_assert_relaunch as its own task. The helper fails by panicking, and the panic unwound past the test's cleanup and left the full snapshot behind. The panic now comes back as an error, and the clone and the snapshot are removed. DESIGN.md says what the balloon behaviour was tested on, which is Firecracker. No Cloud Hypervisor VM was run with a balloon. From the code, a disk-only clone there now gets the recorded target in its VM config, where it got no balloon before, and no test reads that device back. Tested: On x86_64, as root, rootless networking. make test-unit FILTER="-E 'test(=firecracker_get_deadline_covers_a_reply_body_that_stalls)'" Without the api.rs change: FAIL, "balloon_stats() was still waiting 10s after its 200ms deadline". With it: PASS. make _test-unit FILTER="-E 'test(=every_call_site_that_carries_the_balloon_still_does)'" With meta.balloon_mib replaced by None in the disk-only boot and the state assignment deleted from podman/mod.rs: FAIL, "2 of 5 statements that carry a VM's balloon target to its cold boots are gone", naming those two. Unmutated: PASS. make _test-root FILTER="--retries 0 -E 'test(=test_restored_clone_reboot_keeps_its_balloon)'" STREAM=1 with an assertion that always fails added at the top of reboot_and_assert_relaunch. Without the test change the test fails and its 3.8G snapshot directory stays. With it the test fails with "the relaunch check panicked" and leaves no snapshot directory and no VM process. make test-unit FILTER="-E 'binary(test_hypervisor_api) | binary(test_balloon_call_sites) | binary(test_documented_make_targets) | binary(test_bench_fixtures) | binary(test_nested_harness_invariants) | test(/^firecracker::|^hypervisor::|run_args_from_metadata_carry_the_balloon|a_snapshot_records_its_vms_balloon|balloon_target_survives/)'" 91 tests run: 91 passed. make _test-root FILTER="-E 'test(=test_restored_clone_reboot_keeps_its_balloon) | test(=test_disk_only_clone_keeps_the_balloon)'" STREAM=1 2 tests run: 2 passed, each on its first try. make fmt (no change), make clippy (clean). Load average during the runs: 170 to 450 on 192 CPUs. Not run: the whole make test-unit, the full make test-root, arm64, Cloud Hypervisor.
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🟡 Minor · Preserve args.balloon for legacy Podman cache restores. · snapshot.rs:1715-1717
src/commands/snapshot.rs:1715-1717
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args.balloonfor legacy Podman cache restores.When a
podman run --ballooncache hit uses a snapshot withoutballoon_mib, this assignment sets the clone's saved target toNone, even though the restored memory retains the balloon device. The Podman caller hasargs.balloonand passes&argstosnapshot_restore_args. Preserve that explicit target for matching Podman cache restores. Keep ordinary snapshot restores metadata-driven: legacy metadata is documented to cold-boot without a balloon.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 1715-1717: Update the balloon target assignment in
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restores metadata-driven so legacy snapshots still cold-boot without a balloon.
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DISAGREE: this PR does not cause or worsen the reported behavior; tracked in #1053.
The finding describes the behaviour correctly: a podman run --balloon that restores from a cache snapshot written before balloon_mib existed runs with the device, and its state records no target. That is also what happened before this PR, which is the first change to record a target at all. The PR description states it under "Limit" and DESIGN.md states it in the balloon bullet.
The fix belongs to the next PR of the stack, for #1053. That change gives the restore an internal argument for the run's own target, records args.balloon.or(metadata.balloon_mib) in the restored VM's state, and sets the target on the loaded VM before it resumes, with a VM test of a cache hit. Adding only the state half here would bring in that argument without the test that exercises it.
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A VM started with
--balloonlost the device in two cold boots made from its snapshots: a restored clone's relaunch after a guest reboot, and the boot of a disk-only clone. Closes #1052.Stacked on: main. First of three: this one, then #1053 (a cache hit sets the caller's own target), then a command that sets a running VM's target.
The problem
Both cold boots synthesize their
RunArgsfrom the snapshot's metadata. The metadata did not record the balloon, andrun_args_from_snapshot_metadatawroteballoon: None. A memory restore was never affected: its device comes back with the VMM state.The change
VmConfig::balloon_mib) and in every snapshot of it (SnapshotMetadata::balloon_mib). Both fields are#[serde(default)].run_args_from_snapshot_metadatatakes the target as a parameter. The reboot relaunch passes the clone's recorded target, and the disk-only boot passes the snapshot's.FirecrackerClientgains a GET helper andballoon_stats()forGET /balloon/statistics, which the new VM tests read the device through.Unchanged: the snapshot key, and memory restores.
Contract, impact, evidence
--balloonVM have the balloon device at the source's target.Limit
A snapshot or state file written before the fields existed reads as no balloon, so cold boots from it attach no device, as before. That includes a cache snapshot: a
podman run --balloonthat restores from one written by an older build runs with the device and records none, until the cache snapshot is pruned. The next pull request records the run's own target on a cache hit.Test results
On x86_64, as root, rootless networking.
Without the change (fields and tests compiled in, behaviour absent), both fail after the cold boot, past their controls:
With it:
Each test first reads the source's balloon and requires the target it was started with, so the reading is known to work before it is used to show an absence.
Without the change, 5 failed (
NonewhereSome(512)is expected; the wire and persistence tests under a mutation of the path and of the field's serde attribute). With it,5 tests run: 5 passed.make fmtchanges nothing andmake clippyis clean.make test-unit: 1419 run, 1416 passed, 3 failed at a load average of 250 to 290 on a shared 192-CPU machine: two uffd timing tests, which this change does not touch, and the dependency fixture test, which fails when cargo is forced offline, as it was for that run. Run alone at a load near 100 with cargo not forced offline, all of them pass on this tree and on main.Not run locally: the full
make test-root, arm64, Cloud Hypervisor. CI is the full privileged run.Second commit: follow-ups from review
FirecrackerClient's deadline covers a reply's body as well as its head.getread the body with no deadline, so a VMM that sent the head and then stalled hungballoon_stats()for good.get,putandpatchnow share one request function.putandpatchread the reply's body on success too; Firecracker sends none with its 204.BalloonStatsUpdateand the GET reply isBalloonStats. The reply struct dropsactual_mib, which nothing read.tests/test_balloon_call_sites.rspins the five statements that carry a VM's balloon target to its cold boots. Dropping any of them compiled and leftmake test-unitgreen.test_restored_clone_reboot_keeps_its_ballooncleans up when the relaunch check panics.Without the client change it fails:
balloon_stats() was still waiting 10s after its 200ms deadline. With it, it passes.With two of the five statements removed it fails and names those two:
2 of 5 statements that carry a VM's balloon target to its cold boots are gone. Unmutated, it passes.With an assertion that always fails added to the relaunch check, the reboot test without its change leaves its 3.8G snapshot directory behind. With the change it fails with
the relaunch check panickedand leaves no snapshot directory and no VM process.On the second commit: a 91-test unit selection passes (the API client, hypervisor and balloon tests and the fixture tests), both VM tests pass on their first try,
make fmtchanges nothing andmake clippyis clean.Summary by CodeRabbit