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Summary

Ensure that a newly created filesystem chunk is UP before calculating its
projected write size.

The reproduced failure is specific to filesystem buffering; memory-backed
chunks do not use the DOWN file-descriptor and mapping path involved here.

This prevents ChunkIO from attempting to read metadata from a DOWN chunk with
a closed file descriptor and emitting a misleading cannot mmap/read chunk
error.

No issue has been filed for this specific reproducer.

Background and root cause

I initially observed frequent errors like this on Fluent Bit 5.0.9 with
filesystem buffering under high ingestion:

[error] [storage] cannot mmap/read chunk '/var/log/flb-storage/tail.0/...flb'

The frequency dropped sharply after increasing storage.max_chunks_up from
128 to 256. That suggested that the error was related to the transition from
UP to DOWN chunks rather than to the lifetime of the source log file.

I reduced the case to storage.max_chunks_up 1 and two chunks with different
tags. The same behavior is reproducible on v5.1.1 and current master.

The sequence is:

  1. cio_chunk_open() can return a new filesystem chunk DOWN after the maximum
    number of UP chunks is reached.
  2. flb_input_chunk_create() temporarily brings the chunk UP, writes the
    header, and restores it to DOWN before returning.
  3. input_chunk_get() immediately calls
    flb_input_chunk_get_projected_write_size().
  4. The projected size calculation calls cio_meta_size(), which reaches
    cio_file_read_prepare() and cio_file_native_map().
  5. cio_file_native_map() detects that the file descriptor is not open and
    returns CIO_ERROR before the mmap() system call is made. ChunkIO then
    emits the generic cannot mmap/read chunk message.
  6. The append path subsequently brings the same chunk UP and can continue
    writing it, which is why this specific message does not necessarily mean
    that the chunk append failed.

On the metadata read failure,
flb_input_chunk_get_projected_write_size() returns SIZE_MAX. That value is
then passed to the output storage-limit placement checks. Therefore this is
not only a logging change: the fix also ensures that those checks receive a
real projected chunk size.

Change

After selecting or creating the input chunk, check whether it is DOWN before
calculating the projected size. If so, bring it UP and set the existing
set_down flag. The normal append path then restores the chunk to DOWN.

If a newly created chunk cannot be brought UP, destroy it and return the
failure instead of continuing with an unavailable chunk.

This does not change the chunk format or suppress real operating-system mmap
errors. It makes the chunk state valid before the metadata read.

Reproducer

Create several files so the tail input creates chunks with distinct expanded
tags:

mkdir -p /tmp/flb-mmap-input /tmp/flb-mmap-storage
for n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; do
    printf '{"message":"test-%s"}\n' "$n" > "/tmp/flb-mmap-input/$n.log"
done

Configuration:

[SERVICE]
    Flush                 60
    Log_Level             debug
    storage.path          /tmp/flb-mmap-storage
    storage.sync          normal
    storage.max_chunks_up 1

[INPUT]
    Name                  tail
    Tag                   mmap.*
    Path                  /tmp/flb-mmap-input/*.log
    Read_from_Head        On
    Inotify_Watcher       Off
    Refresh_Interval      1
    storage.type          filesystem

[OUTPUT]
    Name                  null
    Match                 *
    storage.total_limit_size 16M

Before this change, the new internal test fails with:

[error] [fstore] cannot mmap/read chunk '.../dummy.0/...flb'
input_chunk.c:632: Check mmap_read_error_count == 0... failed
FAILED: 1 of 1 unit tests has failed.

After this change:

Test input_chunk_projected_size_for_down_chunk... [ OK ]
SUCCESS: All unit tests have passed.

Testing

  • Example configuration file for the change
  • Debug log output from testing the change
  • Valgrind output that shows no leaks or memory corruption

Focused regression test:

./build/bin/flb-it-input_chunk input_chunk_projected_size_for_down_chunk

The test fails on unmodified master and passes with this change.

Full component suite:

./build/bin/flb-it-input_chunk

Result:

SUCCESS: All unit tests have passed.

Valgrind command:

valgrind --leak-check=full \
    --show-leak-kinds=all \
    --errors-for-leak-kinds=definite,indirect \
    --error-exitcode=99 \
    ./build/bin/flb-it-input_chunk \
    input_chunk_projected_size_for_down_chunk

Valgrind result:

HEAP SUMMARY:
    in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
  total heap usage: 3,958 allocs, 3,958 frees, 739,273 bytes allocated
All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)

The change is not related to packaging or container build definitions.

  • [N/A] Run local packaging test showing all targets build
  • [N/A] Set ok-package-test label

Documentation

  • [N/A] Documentation required for this bug fix

The change corrects an internal chunk-state transition and introduces no new
configuration or user-facing behavior.

Backporting

  • Backport to latest stable release

The issue is reproducible on v5.1.1. I can submit a separate backport after
the change is accepted in master.


Fluent Bit is licensed under Apache 2.0, by submitting this pull request I
understand that this code will be released under the terms of that license.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of newly created storage chunks in the DOWN state.
    • Prevented projected-size calculations from failing when chunk metadata is temporarily unavailable.
    • Ensured failed chunk initialization is cleaned up safely.
    • Improved reliability when appending data to newly created chunks.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage validating projected-size calculations for DOWN chunks.
    • Added checks to confirm no chunk mapping or read errors occur during this process.

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input_chunk_get temporarily brings DOWN chunks UP before projected size calculation and restores their state afterward. It destroys newly created chunks when activation fails. A regression test verifies that a DOWN chunk does not trigger a CIO mmap/read error.

Changes

Input Chunk Down-State Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Force chunks UP during projected size calculation
src/flb_input_chunk.c
input_chunk_get activates non-UP chunks before reading mapped-file metadata. Failed activation destroys new chunks. Successful activation marks chunks for restoration to DOWN.
Validate DOWN chunk projected size
tests/internal/input_chunk.c
The test tracks mmap/read errors, creates a second chunk while only one chunk may remain UP, verifies that the second chunk is DOWN, and confirms that no mmap/read error occurs.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 12df6

The change prevents invalid projected-size reads for newly created filesystem chunks and avoids misleading mmap errors and incorrect storage-limit calculations. A bounded failure-path risk remains because an append error may leave a chunk mapped and counted as UP until later cleanup, and the regression test can crash if setup appends fail; merge is reasonable with explicit owner follow-up.

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tests/internal/input_chunk.c (1)

628-632: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Guard the list access before dereferencing the last chunk.

TEST_CHECK records a failure but does not stop execution. If both appends fail, i_ins->chunks is empty. mk_list_entry_last then produces an invalid pointer, and line 631 dereferences it. The test binary crashes instead of reporting the failed assertions.

♻️ Proposed guard
     TEST_CHECK(ret == 0);
     TEST_CHECK(mk_list_size(&i_ins->chunks) == 2);
 
-    ic = mk_list_entry_last(&i_ins->chunks, struct flb_input_chunk, _head);
-    TEST_CHECK(cio_chunk_is_up(ic->chunk) == CIO_FALSE);
-    TEST_CHECK(mmap_read_error_count == 0);
+    if (mk_list_size(&i_ins->chunks) == 2) {
+        ic = mk_list_entry_last(&i_ins->chunks, struct flb_input_chunk, _head);
+        TEST_CHECK(cio_chunk_is_up(ic->chunk) == CIO_FALSE);
+    }
+    TEST_CHECK(mmap_read_error_count == 0);
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In `@tests/internal/input_chunk.c` around lines 628 - 632, Guard the last-chunk
access in the test around mk_list_entry_last and cio_chunk_is_up: verify
i_ins->chunks is non-empty before retrieving or dereferencing its final entry,
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A new filesystem chunk can be returned in the DOWN state when the maximum
number of UP chunks has been reached. The chunk is temporarily brought UP to
write its header and then returned DOWN before input_chunk_get() continues.

The projected size calculation reads the chunk metadata. When it receives
the newly created DOWN chunk, ChunkIO tries to map a closed file descriptor
and reports "cannot mmap/read chunk" before reaching the mmap system call.

Bring the chunk UP before calculating the projected size and preserve the
set_down flag so the append path restores it to DOWN. If bringing a newly
created chunk UP fails, remove its indexed entry using the caller-provided
tag before closing and freeing it.

Signed-off-by: Raphael Shukurov <raphael@shukurov.com>
Limit ChunkIO to one UP chunk and append records with two tags. Without the
input_chunk fix, calculating the projected size of the second chunk attempts
to read metadata while the chunk is DOWN and emits "cannot mmap/read chunk".

Verify that the append succeeds, the second chunk returns to the DOWN state,
and no mapping error is reported.

Signed-off-by: Raphael Shukurov <raphael@shukurov.com>
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