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Splunk crash during tcpout (outputs.conf) reload

hrawat_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Different crashes during tcpout reload.

 

Received fatal signal 6 (Aborted) on PID .
 Cause:
   Signal sent by PID  running under UID .
 Crashing thread: indexerPipe_1

 Backtrace (PIC build):
  [0x000014BC540AFB8F] gsignal + 271 (libc.so.6 + 0x4EB8F)
  [0x000014BC54082EA5] abort + 295 (libc.so.6 + 0x21EA5)
  [0x000055BCEBEFC1A7] __assert_fail + 135 (splunkd + 0x51601A7)
  [0x000055BCEBEC4BD9] ? (splunkd + 0x5128BD9)
  [0x000055BCE9013E72] _ZN34AutoLoadBalancedConnectionStrategyD0Ev + 18 (splunkd + 0x2277E72)
  [0x000055BCE905DC99] _ZN14TcpOutputGroupD1Ev + 217 (splunkd + 0x22C1C99)
  [0x000055BCE905E002] _ZN14TcpOutputGroupD0Ev + 18 (splunkd + 0x22C2002)
  [0x000055BCE905FC6F] _ZN15TcpOutputGroups14checkSendStateEv + 623 (splunkd + 0x22C3C6F)
  [0x000055BCE9060F08] _ZN15TcpOutputGroups4sendER15CowPipelineData + 88 (splunkd + 0x22C4F08)
  [0x000055BCE90002FA] _ZN18TcpOutputProcessor7executeER15CowPipelineData + 362 (splunkd + 0x22642FA)
  [0x000055BCE9829628] _ZN9Processor12executeMultiER18PipelineDataVectorPS0_ + 72 (splunkd + 0x2A8D628)
  [0x000055BCE8D29D25] _ZN8Pipeline4mainEv + 1157 (splunkd + 0x1F8DD25)
  [0x000055BCEBF715EE] _ZN6Thread37_callMainAndDiscardTerminateExceptionEv + 46 (splunkd + 0x51D55EE)
  [0x000055BCEBF716FB] _ZN6Thread8callMainEPv + 139 (splunkd + 0x51D56FB)
  [0x000014BC552AC1DA] ? (libpthread.so.0 + 0x81DA)

 

 

 

Another reload crash

 

 Backtrace (PIC build):
  [0x00007F456828700B] gsignal + 203 (libc.so.6 + 0x2100B)
  [0x00007F4568266859] abort + 299 (libc.so.6 + 0x859)
  [0x0000560602B5B4B7] __assert_fail + 135 (splunkd + 0x5AAA4B7)
  [0x00005605FF66297A] _ZN15TcpOutputClientD1Ev + 3130 (splunkd + 0x25B197A)
  [0x00005605FF6629F2] _ZN15TcpOutputClientD0Ev + 18 (splunkd + 0x25B19F2)
  [0x0000560602AD7807] _ZN9EventLoop3runEv + 839 (splunkd + 0x5A26807)
  [0x00005605FF3555AD] _ZN11Distributed11EloopRunner4mainEv + 205 (splunkd + 0x22A45AD)
  [0x0000560602BD03FE] _ZN6Thread37_callMainAndDiscardTerminateExceptionEv + 46 (splunkd + 0x5B1F3FE)
  [0x0000560602BD050B] _ZN6Thread8callMainEPv + 139 (splunkd + 0x5B1F50B)
  [0x00007F4568CAD609] ? (libpthread.so.0 + 0x2609)
  [0x00007F4568363353] clone + 67 (libc.so.6 + 0xFD353)
 Linux / myhost / 5.15.0-1055-aws / #60~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu 
assertion_failure="!_hasDataInTransit" assertion_function="virtual TcpOutputClient::~TcpOutputClient()" 

 

 

 

 

 

Since Splunk 9.2, splunk outputs.conf is reloadable. Whenever DC pulls bundle from DS, depending on the changes, during reload, conf files are reloaded. One of the conf file is outputs.conf.
Prior to 9.2 outputs.conf was not reloadable that means hitting following endpoint would do nothing.

/data/outputs/tcp/server or 

https://<host>:<port>/servicesNS/-/-/admin/tcpout-group/_reload

Behavior is changed from 9.2 and now outputs.conf is reloadable. However reloading outputs.conf is very complex process as it involves shutdown tcpout groups safely. Still there are cases where splunk crashes. We are working on fixing reported crashes.

Workaround

As mentioned before 9.2 outputs.conf was never reloadable ( no-op for _reload), thus no crashes/complications

Set in local/apps.conf as a workaround.

[triggers]
reload.outputs = simple

With setting above, splunk will take no action on tcpout(outputs.conf) reload( a behavior  that was before 9.2)

 

If outputs.conf is changed via DS, restart splunk.

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gcusello
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @hrawat_splunk ,

open soon a case to Splunk Support.

Ciao.

Giuseppe

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