I've encountered the following bug, but only on Gentoo with
systemd and CGroupsV2. I've started an LXC container successfully
but destroying it reported the following error:
error: Failed to destroy domain 'amd64'
error: internal error: failed to get cgroup backend for 'pathOfController'
Debugging showed, that CGroup hierarchy is full of surprises:
Anyway, those nested directories should not be a problem, because
virCgroupKillRecursiveInternal() removes them recursively, right?
Sort of. The function really does remove nested directories, but
it assumes that every directory has the same controller as the
rest. Just take a look at virCgroupV2KillRecursive() - it gets
'Any' controller (the first one it found in ".scope") and then
passes it to virCgroupKillRecursiveInternal().
This assumption is not true though. The controllers found in
".scope" are the following:
cpuset cpu io memory pids
while "libvirt" has fewer:
cpuset cpu io memory
Up until now it's not problem, because of how we order
controllers internally - "cpu" is the first and thus picking
"Any" controller returns just that. But the rest of directories
has no controllers, their "cgroup.controllers" is just empty.
What fixes the bug is dropping @controller argument from
virCgroupKillRecursiveInternal() and letting each iteration work
pick its own controller.
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Pavel Hrdina <phrdina@redhat.com>