Ok, so that's an apparmor or apparmor profile problem. LXD recently changed to also allow for apparmor profiles to be loaded inside privileged containers. This seems to align with your timeline above.
Before that change, your kvm process wasn't itself confined when run inside a privileged LXD container, instead only being confined by the container's own profile. With this LXD fix, we now offer the same behavior for unprivileged and privileged containers, letting the container load its own profile in both cases. There are a number of problems with apparmor profiles being loaded as part of an apparmor stack not behaving the same as when loaded in the host, but those are either issues that need be addressed in the profiles or in the apparmor kernel code. As far as we (LXD) are concerned, we'd very much appreciate it if apparmor could behave the same in containers as it does on the host, but we understand that there are design problems with this and so most apparmor profiles are now showing some problems... Closing LXD task as invalid, since as far as LXD is concerned, we are doing the right thing wrt apparmor setup. This is caused by either apparmor misbehaving or the apparmor profile being invalid. ** Changed in: lxd (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1684481 Title: KVM guest execution start apparmor blocks on /dev/ptmx now (regression?) Status in apparmor package in Ubuntu: New Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in lxd package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Setup: - Xenial host - lxd guests with Trusty, Xenial, ... - add a LXD profile to allow kvm [3] (inspired by stgraber) - spawn KVM guests in the LXD guests using the different distro release versions - guests are based on the uvtool default template which has a serial console [4] Issue: - guest starting with serial device gets blocked by apparmor and killed on creation - This affects at least ppc64el and x86 (s390x has no serial concept that would match) - This appeared in our usual checks on -proposed releases so maybe we can/should stop something? Last good was "Apr 5, 2017 10:40:50 AM" first bad one "Apr 8, 2017 5:11:22 AM" Background: We use this setup for a while and it was working without a change on our end. Also the fact that it still works in the Trusty LXD makes it somewhat suspicious. Therefore I'd assume an SRUed change in LXD/Kernel/Apparmor might be the reason and open this bug to get your opinion on it. You can look into [1] and search for uvt-kvm create in it. Deny in dmesg: [652759.606218] audit: type=1400 audit(1492671353.134:4520): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" namespace="root//lxd-testkvm-xenial-from_<var-lib-lxd>" profile="libvirt-668e21f1-fa55-4a30-b325-0ed5cfd55e5b" name="/dev/pts/ptmx" pid=27162 comm="qemu-system-ppc" requested_mask="wr" denied_mask="wr" fsuid=0 ouid=0 Qemu-log: 2017-04-20T06:55:53.139450Z qemu-system-ppc64: -chardev pty,id=charserial0: Failed to create PTY: No such file or directory There was a similar issue on qmeu namespacing (which we don't use on any of these releases) [2]. While we surely don't have the "same" issue the debugging on the namespacing might be worth as it could be related. Workaround for now: - drop serial section from guest xml [1]: https://jenkins.ubuntu.com/server/view/Virt/job/virt-migration-cross-release-amd64/78/consoleFull [2]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421036 [3]: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server/ubuntu/+source/qemu-migration-test/tree/kvm_profile.yaml [4]: https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsCharPTY --- ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: ppc64el DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl Package: lxd PackageArchitecture: ppc64el ProcKernelCmdline: root=UUID=902eaad1-2164-4f9a-bec4-7ff3abc15804 ro console=hvc0 ProcLoadAvg: 3.15 3.02 3.83 1/3056 79993 ProcSwaps: Filename Type Size Used Priority /swap.img file 8388544 0 -1 ProcVersion: Linux version 4.4.0-72-generic (buildd@bos01-ppc64el-022) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) ) #93-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 31 14:05:15 UTC 2017 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-72.93-generic 4.4.49 Syslog: Tags: xenial uec-images Uname: Linux 4.4.0-72-generic ppc64le UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: utah _MarkForUpload: True cpu_cores: Number of cores present = 20 cpu_coreson: Number of cores online = 20 cpu_smt: SMT is off --- ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: ppc64el DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 NonfreeKernelModules: cfg80211 ebtable_broute ebtable_nat binfmt_misc veth nbd openvswitch vhost_net vhost macvtap macvlan xt_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 ebtable_filter ebtables ip6t_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv6 ip6table_nat nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_nat_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables xt_comment xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack xt_tcpudp bridge stp llc iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair spl zavl kvm_hv kvm ipmi_powernv ipmi_msghandler uio_pdrv_genirq vmx_crypto powernv_rng ibmpowernv leds_powernv uio ib_iser rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_sa ib_mad ib_core ib_addr iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi autofs4 btrfs raid10 raid456 async_raid6_recov async_memcpy async_pq async_xor async_tx xor raid6_pq libcrc32c raid1 raid0 multipath linear ses enclosure mlx4_en vxlan ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel mlx4_core ipr Package: lxd PackageArchitecture: ppc64el ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=C.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdline: root=UUID=902eaad1-2164-4f9a-bec4-7ff3abc15804 ro console=hvc0 ProcLoadAvg: 5.56 5.25 4.60 1/3057 3526 ProcSwaps: Filename Type Size Used Priority none virtual 8388544 8388544 0 ProcVersion: Linux version 4.4.0-72-generic (buildd@bos01-ppc64el-022) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) ) #93-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 31 14:05:15 UTC 2017 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-72.93-generic 4.4.49 Syslog: Tags: xenial uec-images Uname: Linux 4.4.0-72-generic ppc64le UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: _MarkForUpload: True cpu_cores: Number of cores present = 20 cpu_coreson: Number of cores online = 20 cpu_smt: SMT is off --- AlsaDevices: total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Apr 12 17:37 seq crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 33 Apr 12 17:37 timer AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5 Architecture: ppc64el ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Lsusb: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl Package: linux (not installed) PciMultimedia: ProcFB: ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=902eaad1-2164-4f9a-bec4-7ff3abc15804 ro console=hvc0 ProcLoadAvg: 6.01 5.68 4.92 1/3060 83740 ProcSwaps: Filename Type Size Used Priority /swap.img file 8388544 0 -1 ProcVersion: Linux version 4.4.0-72-generic (buildd@bos01-ppc64el-022) (gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/IBM 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) ) #93-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 31 14:05:15 UTC 2017 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-72.93-generic 4.4.49 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.4.0-72-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.4.0-72-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.157.8 RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Tags: xenial uec-images Uname: Linux 4.4.0-72-generic ppc64le UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: utah _MarkForUpload: True cpu_cores: Number of cores present = 20 cpu_coreson: Number of cores online = 20 cpu_dscr: DSCR is 0 cpu_freq: min: 3.691 GHz (cpu 120) max: 3.691 GHz (cpu 8) avg: 3.691 GHz cpu_runmode: Could not retrieve current diagnostics mode, No kernel interface to firmware cpu_smt: SMT is off To manage notifications about this 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