Fix: relayd: live: data is missing between viewer attach and retry

[lttng-tools.git] / src / bin / lttng-relayd / live.c

diff --git a/src/bin/lttng-relayd/live.c b/src/bin/lttng-relayd/live.c
index 1b25671d5f76a82ad83a33ceceb3691e8794457c..ddad925cba1af2b189238963970f3ec830c3605c 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/lttng-relayd/live.c
+++ b/src/bin/lttng-relayd/live.c
@@ -200,7 +200,6 @@ ssize_t send_viewer_streams(struct lttcomm_sock *sock,
                uint64_t session_id, unsigned int ignore_sent_flag)
 {
        ssize_t ret;
-       struct lttng_viewer_stream send_stream;
        struct lttng_ht_iter iter;
        struct relay_viewer_stream *vstream;
 
@@ -209,6 +208,7 @@ ssize_t send_viewer_streams(struct lttcomm_sock *sock,
        cds_lfht_for_each_entry(viewer_streams_ht->ht, &iter.iter, vstream,
                        stream_n.node) {
                struct ctf_trace *ctf_trace;
+               struct lttng_viewer_stream send_stream = {};
 
                health_code_update();
 
@@ -1000,10 +1000,19 @@ int viewer_get_new_streams(struct relay_connection *conn)
                goto send_reply;
        }
 
+       /*
+        * For any new stream, create it with LTTNG_VIEWER_SEEK_BEGINNING since
+        * that at this point the client is already attached to the session.Aany
+        * initial stream will have been created with the seek type at attach
+        * time (for now most readers use the LTTNG_VIEWER_SEEK_LAST on attach).
+        * Otherwise any event happening in a new stream between the attach and
+        * a call to viewer_get_new_streams will be "lost" (never received) from
+        * the viewer's point of view.
+        */
        pthread_mutex_lock(&session->lock);
        ret = make_viewer_streams(session,
                        conn->viewer_session->current_trace_chunk,
-                       LTTNG_VIEWER_SEEK_LAST, &nb_total, &nb_unsent,
+                       LTTNG_VIEWER_SEEK_BEGINNING, &nb_total, &nb_unsent,
                        &nb_created, &closed);
        if (ret < 0) {
                goto error_unlock_session;