[Bug 1819728] Re: Please backport "fix race between daemon-reload and other commands #8803" to 16.04 (for UC16) and 18.04 (for UC18)

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello Michael, or anyone else affected,

Accepted systemd into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/229-4ubuntu21.18 in a few
hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of
your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed-xenial

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Title:
  Please backport "fix race between daemon-reload and other commands
  #8803" to 16.04 (for UC16) and 18.04 (for UC18)

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in systemd source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in systemd source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  On Ubuntu Core we recently hit the a race in daemon-reload and systemctl twice. This race is fixed in systemd upstream: "fix race between daemon-reload and other commands #8803".

  Note that this is a general problem in systemd with daemon-reload and
  systemctl commands, we just happen to hit it more often on Ubuntu Core
  but the test-case below explodes just fine on a normal Ubuntu release
  like 16.04 or 18.04 (not on 18.10+ as its fixed there).

  [TEST CASE]
  To reproduce its enough to run:

  for i in $(seq 50); do
    systemctl daemon-reload &
    systemctl start ssh &
  done

  This will result in "systemctl start ssh" hanging in ppoll. With the
  patch applied the hangs go away.

  [REGRESSION POTENTIAL]
  Low, this change is already in the systemd upstream and in use cosmic and later.

  The upstream fix is https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/8803
  Full spread run with the fixed systemd in the "core" snap and a regression test: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/6595

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