Download/criu/1.x

This page lists older (1.x) CRIU releases. For latest release, see Download/criu.

During 1.x stage of development, the project has already proven to be doable and we have concentrated on fulfilling its functionality, improving stability and performance.

v. 1.8Edit

Tarball: criu-1.8.tar.bz2
Version: 1.8
Released: 7 Dec 2015
GIT tag: v1.8

New featuresEdit

  • Ability to check CRIU features via RPC
  • New zdtm.py test suite
  • Pre-dump and pre-restore action scripts
  • The "info" action in CRIT showing stats about image file
  • More user-friendly output by CRIT
  • Python API -- pycriu
  • Ability to add custom paths to irmap scan
  • C/R of
    • read-only bind mounts
    • IPv6 routes and iptables rules
    • ip rules (it ip tool supports such)
    • ignore_routes_with_linkdown netns devconf
    • empty bridges in netns
    • FILTER mode of seccomp
    • IP_FREEBIND socket option

Optimizations/improvementsEdit

  • Shared pie/non-pie .c files are built two times with proper flags
  • VDSO code re-shuffled for better re-use between arches
  • Failures of action scripts are reported in logs
  • OpenVZ's VENET handling is tuned to fit the current kernel state
  • Do not use hardcoded /dev/rts maj:min numbers
  • Unsupported socket protocols are reported at expected place
  • Slightly faster access to /proc files by using O_PATH open mode
  • Improved page-server dump speed by keeping control over the Nagle algorithm
  • Read pages.img in more optimal manner rather than page-by-page
  • Less "Error"-s in logs, that actually don't lead to errors
  • Slightly faster /proc/pid/status parsing
  • Dead/live-locks on internal criu locks now emits a warning into logs

FixesEdit

  • Page server flooded node with tw buckets during migration
  • Turned off cgroups controllers weren't detected as such
  • Netns sysctls from old images weren't properly restored
  • Running process could be mistakenly stopped after --leave-running dump
  • Helper processes run by CRIU produced fake error messages in logs
  • Error code from sigaction restore could be missed
  • Several potential buffers overruns due to missed '\0' after strcpy-s existed
  • Killed processes after dump survived in zombie state for some time holding PIDs and resources
  • If task had MANY children, the latter could be skipped on dump
  • Task dying while being frozen could fail the dump
  • On Aarch64 the upper limit for user memory was not properly detected sometimes
  • Guess for TCP buffer max segment size was too optimistic (could fail the restore on low-mem machines)
  • CRIT didn't decode userns images
  • Ghost files were left in the FS tree after failed restore (blocking the next restore attempt)
  • Some log messages from pie code were lost
  • Some net/ipc/uts sysctls failed to restore in userns
  • Move tasks int cgroups failed in userns
  • Unsupported filesystems silently failed the dump
  • External tmpfs (and some other) mounts generated tarballs with their contents
  • Privately mapped files were picked from wrong mount namespace
  • Controlling tty could be restored on wrong tty end
  • Tmpfs mount of sub-namespace was restored from wrong image file
  • Potential stack overflow in libcriu
  • Partially-restored tasks could be left after failed restore
  • In-container TCP connection sometimes failed to restore
  • Race in sending SIGSTOP vs dump might cause dump to fail
  • Post-restore actions could generate stats files in wrong directories
  • Freeze-cgroup didn't take sub-cgroups' tasks into account
  • Tentative state in IPv6 sockets binding prevented socket from being bound immediately
  • Restoring from images with files pointing to /proc file of dead tasks could crash
  • Tasks with STOP in queue (i.e. -- not yet stopped) were CONT-ed in case of --leave-running dump
  • Stopped task with one more STOP in queue caused dump to stuck
  • If parent task left the MNT namespace it created for children restore could BUG()
  • Link-local IPv6 addresses sometimes failed to bind() at restore

SecurityEdit

  • Service run as root could allow users to violate ptrace policies
  • Service run as root could give users access to privileged files and directories


v. 1.7.2Edit

Tarball: criu-1.7.2.tar.bz2
Version: 1.7.2
Released: 28 Oct 2015
GIT tag: v1.7.2

FixesEdit

  • Mounting container root on restore could sometimes switch to wrong root path
  • The slave/shared option for CT root was lost on restore
  • Duplicate slave mount points could appear on restore
  • Fanotifies (inotifies) could be restored in wrong mount namespace (though on correct inode)
  • Fanotifies (inotifies) on bind-mount-ed tmpfs file could fail the dump
  • Kernel threads found in tree (OpenVZ containers case) blocked the dump
  • Flat user namespace (0; \infty) restore failed
  • Off-by-one in unix socket name handling
  • IPC objects' UIDs and GIDs were not treated as userns ones
  • Rcv and Snd buffers for sockets grew 2 times on restore


v. 1.7Edit

Tarball: criu-1.7.tar.bz2
Version: 1.7
Released: 7 Sep 2015
GIT tag: v1.7

New featuresEdit

  • More flexible CGroups managing on restore
  • Support for seccomp strict mode
  • Support for stream unix sockets inheritance
  • Support uid/gid-restricted mounts in userns
  • Support deleted bind-mounts
  • Freezer cgroups can be used on dump to freeze fast-spawning processes
  • Ability to specify maximum ghost file size
  • OverlayFS support
  • Support relative unix sockets' bind paths
  • In libcriu
    • New set of calls using non-global opts
    • Ability to pass existing connection to service
    • Ability to start criu in swrk mode for all requests
  • Arch-specific improvements
    • Altivec and PSX support for PPC
    • Small PIE loader
    • Preparations for 32-bit x86

Optimizations/improvementsEdit

  • Temporary proc mountpoint is mounted with nosuid, noexec and nodev
  • Less memory copies when preparing restorer binary
  • CRIT action "show" for less keystrokes on common use-case
  • Fsnotify log messages now use hex everywhere :)
  • CRIT output doesn't mix fields any more

FixesEdit

  • CRIU binary couldn't be installed independently from man pages
  • Root dir ignored in install: target
  • Bug in restoring PPC floating point register
  • SYSVIPC shmem was not attached on restore with PPC
  • AIO ring ID was erroneously close()-d
  • After dump+kill tasks remained in zombie states
  • Race in zombies vs proc proxy tasks deaths resulted in restore spurious failure
  • Restore got stuck when CRIU was called with blocked SIGCHILD
  • Wrong page size value could be used on some ARM compilations
  • Potential memory corruption when restoring an LSM profile
  • Opened /dev/kmsg in WRONLY mode failed the restore
  • Weird paths on tmpfs caused tar to fail
  • Temporary cgroup mount set (cgyard) got propagated into the host tree
  • Restore of inherited shared pipe failed
  • Spaces, tabs and backslashes in mountpoints' paths caused dump to fail
  • Tmpfs mounted with empty source caused dump to fail
  • The criu.pc file contained bad version when built from tarball
  • Deprecated -n option found in docs
  • On aarch64 the maximum virtual address available for user-space was wrongly hardcoded


v. 1.6.1Edit

Tarball: criu-1.6.1.tar.bz2
Version: 1.6.1
Released: 12 Aug 2015
GIT tag: v1.6.1

New featuresEdit

  • Support for relative paths for unix sockets

FixesEdit

  • Crash when restoring netns from older images
  • Race between unix sockets' connect and listen may cause restore to fail
  • Multiple unix datagram clients restored server queue multiple times


v. 1.6Edit

Tarball: criu-1.6.tar.bz2
Version: 1.6
Released: 1 Jun 2015
GIT tag: v1.6

New featuresEdit

  • PowerPC 64bit LE support
  • Makefile.local for 3-rd party build rules
  • Ability to "enable" filesystem on dump (--enable-fs)
  • Ability to skip mountpoint on dump (--skip-mnt)
  • Prepare to deprecate "criu show" command
  • External mounts auto-detection
    • External siblings resolving
    • External sharing resolving
  • /dev/tty (current terminal) support
  • Netdev and netns (all/default) confs C/R
  • Images v1.1 with extra magic at head
  • Support fusectl (only ctl) mountpoint
  • Sub-version format is now as of git-describe
  • Apparamor labels C/R support

OptimizationsEdit

  • Empty image files are not generated in image dir
  • /proc/pid/fd/locks support for faster and non-intrusive locks dump

FixesEdit

  • Cscope scanned symlinks on make tags
  • Compilation with clang failed
  • Improper PAGE_SIZE constant was used on Aarch64
  • Selinux blocks attempt to inject parasite w/o any reasonable message
  • Error code masked on some error paths
  • O_APPEND files' changed size aborted restore
  • Errno value could be overwritten by logging
  • Mount namespace w/o /tmp could not be dumped
  • Stats file generated in wrong dir sometimes
  • MS_STRICTATIME mountpoint option was dropped on dump
  • Read-only tmpfs mount failed to restore
  • Some files were put into wrong places upon install target
  • Service couldn't be enabled via systemd ctl after manual installation
  • Parent's /proc/self files could be accessed by criu processes on restore
  • When meeting unknown image file CRIT exited with exception instead of printing sane error message


v. 1.5.2Edit

Tarball: criu-1.5.2.tar.bz2
Version: 1.5.2
Released: 28 Apr 2015
GIT tag: v1.5.2

FixesEdit

  • Mutli-threaded tasks restored with error when --restore-sibling (Docker and LXC cases)
  • Service (and swrk) couldn't receive too big RPC messages


v. 1.5.1Edit

Tarball: criu-1.5.1.tar.bz2
Version: 1.5.1
Released: 31 Mar 2015
GIT tag: v1.5.1

New featuresEdit

  • Inheriting FDs now work in "swrk" RPC mode
  • Restored pid is reported in post-restore RPC notification

FixesEdit

  • Uninitialized ss in sigframe causes C/R failures on 4.0 kernel
  • Cgroups' properties are initialized too late on restore
  • Cgroups' destruction isn't performed in non detached mode
  • Cgroups' destruction can fail on error paths


v. 1.5Edit

Tarball: criu-1.5.tar.bz2
Version: 1.5
Released: 2 Mar 2015
GIT tag: v1.5

New featuresEdit

  • CRIT tool
  • Ability to request CPU compatibility on instructions level only
  • C/R of empty AIO rings
  • More detailed errno report via RPC
  • Per-feature "criu check"
  • Inheriting FDs on restore
  • Ability to automatically move veth device to host-side bridge on netns restore
  • VT terminals support
  • More user namespaces C/R stuff

OptimizationsEdit

  • TCP send queue is restored in the maximal portions allowed by the kernel
  • Pre-loading sock-diag modules now happens in a more elegant way

FixesEdit

  • Multi-threaded tasks on 64bit ARM could segfault upon restore
  • When doing "check" CRIU could leave un-killed piggie task
  • The --cpu-cap option argument was parsed with errors
  • Incorrect handling of --cpu-cap fpu compatibility mode on restore
  • Criu ignored trailing CLI arguments that resulted in usage confusions
  • Irmap hints didn't include common "/" path
  • When run per user request, CRIU left log and pid files belonging to root
  • Mappings on AUFS could be looked up on wrong mount point
  • Fixed compilation on Centos6.5
  • Wrong /proc was used when reading the list of FDs to close on restore
  • Race in restoring TCP established and listening sockets results in failed bind() on the latter
  • Legacy ttys errorneously treated as unix98
  • TTY pairs slavery setup could pick wrong peer
  • For user-dump the log and pid files still belonged to root
  • Task could die while being frozen thus causing dump to fail or save wrong task state
  • Failures in mount points validation and sharing resolving didn't abort the dump (error arose on restore)


v. 1.4Edit

Tarball: criu-1.4.tar.bz2
Version: 1.4
Released: 1 Dec 2014
GIT tag: v1.4

New featuresEdit

  • Dump and check cpuinfo. Needed to make sure CPU is capable to run the images after restore, e.g. during live migration
  • Initial support for user namespaces
    • Use memfd to restore shared memory segments
    • New (slightly faster) API for mm stuff restore via prctl
    • [UG]ID-s are dumped from parasite, not from /proc files
  • The docker_cr.sh script to show how Docker container C/R should (will) look like
  • New API for writing plugins (old one is still possible)
  • Service workers change their title to better look in ps output
  • Ability to feed socket for pre-dump and page-server in swrk mode
  • Page-server can auto-bind its port
  • Ability to perform several actions during one connection to RPC service
  • C/R of opened /proc/$pid/foo files of dead tasks
  • C/R of /dev/console
  • C/R of virtualized devtmpfs (openvz and future upstream kernels)
  • C/R of empty mqueue fs (posix message queues)
  • C/R of shared bind-mounts

OptimizationsEdit

  • BFD engine
    • Faster that glibc's FILE * buffered read from /proc files
    • Buffered image files IO
  • Faster parasite/restorer unload
    • Use HW breakpoints
    • Less ptrace GETREGS calls sometimes
    • Wake pie after sending the FINI command to socket
  • Merged some pairs of images into one
    • eventpoll and -tfd
    • inotify and -wd
    • fsnotify and -mark
  • Less setns()-s on dump is much faster on older kernels
  • Faster access to /proc/self files -- cached fd of /proc/self and openat(this_cache)

FixesEdit

  • Sibling restore mode didn't set up CRIU signals properly
  • Unpredictable sibling/child root task restore. Fixed with explicit CLI option
  • Validation for leaf mount points was skipped
  • Mount options were corrupted on dump, which resulted in errors bind mounts detection
  • Uninitialized properties of some cgroups prevented moving tasks into them (e.g. empty cpuset masks and low memcg limit)
  • File locks could belong to task with different pid (inherited on fork) blocked the dump
  • Bogus error printed in logs about SIGCHLD catch (was caused by thread dump using traps)
  • Irmap engine accessed freed root_task on pre-dump
  • Restore of net namespace could always fail (pid mismatch on fork) if kernel thread was created on netns setup
  • Cgroups service descriptor was closed too early and failed restore
  • Auto-loaded *diag modules caused audit netlink socket to contain data on dump (dump fails in this case)
  • The "(deleted)" prefix accumulated in unlinked files while doing C/R
  • The devpts filesystem and ptmx file were only dumped when found on /dev/pts and /dev respectively
  • Data in netlink socket and fanotify was lost after C/R (now dump is aborted if data found in it)
  • Fanotify mark was restore in different mount namespace
  • Images were writable by group. Not secure when user-dump was requested
  • Rootfs has parent id equal to self. CRIU didn't expect this and failed the dump
  • Shared mount of the --root path failed the restore
  • Absence (e.g. not compiled in) of any namespace in the kernel failed the dump
  • Page-server incremental dump didn't detect new tasks properly and failed the stage
  • Big TCP queues sometimes failed to get restored
  • Incremental pre-dump could lose track of memory changes by task


v. 1.3.1Edit

Tarball: criu-1.3.1.tar.bz2
Version: 1.3.1
Released: 12 Sep 2014
GIT tag: v1.3.1

FixesEdit

  • Sibling restore mode didn't set up CRIU signals properly
  • Unpredictable sibling/child root task restore. Fixed with explicit CLI option
  • Validation for leaf mount points was skipped
  • Mount options were corrupted on dump, which resulted in errors bind mounts detection


v. 1.3Edit

Tarball: criu-1.3.tar.bz2
Version: 1.3
Released: 1 Sep 2014
GIT tag: v1.3

New featuresEdit

  • TimerFD support
  • VVAR area (newer kernels' part of VDSO) support
  • CGroups hierarchies support
  • AUFS support (for Docker)
  • PDeathSig support
  • Check for opened file's size on dump and restore is the same
  • Ability to restore tasks as children using libcriu (criu_restore_child)
  • Add pkgconfig file for libcriu
  • CRTOOLS_IMAGE_DIR variable available in action scripts

OptimizationsEdit

  • Merged images with pending signal into core
  • Per-task images with file locks are merged into one big image
  • Smaller tasks orchestration memory area on restore
  • Sigactions are inherited on restore when possible, not overwritten
  • ZDTM suite now executes tests in parallel

FixesEdit

  • Dump failed if robust lists were off
  • Link remaps on tmpfs mounts were not dumped
  • Non root tasks with custom groups couldn't dump its peers (Security)
  • Opened and unlinked FIFOs, dirs and devices were restored as regular files
  • Files opened from alien mount namespace were restored in the local one
  • Link remap name sometimes was generated with error
  • Opened and removed cwd couldn't be restored
  • Sysctl kernel.msgmni was overwritten by subsequent auto_msgmni
  • Library and RPC APIs didn't match the CLI one
  • Some external mounts were constantly "postponed" and never got mounted
  • The self.mm_dumpable prlctl value of 2 caused restore to fail
  • Errors when writing sysctls with tail \n
  • The criu show printed nested repeated fields corrupted
  • Dump stats were initialized with garbage
  • Restore sometimes stuck on waiting for inet socket port bind
  • Spurious SIGHUP when restoring slave ttys
  • Restore wasn't aborted if sub-task failed early


v. 1.3-rc2Edit

Tarball: criu-1.3-rc2.tar.bz2
Version: 1.3-rc2
Released: 18 Jun 2014
GIT tag: v1.3-rc2

New featuresEdit

  • Native (w/o plugins) c/r of external bind mounts
  • C/R of the info in which cgroups tasks live
  • C/R of task's dumpable flag
  • Dump pstore, securityfs, fusectl and debugfs mountpoints

FixesEdit

  • VDSO was searched on stack's guard page
  • Mount namespace w/o /proc mount blocked the restore
  • Several misses in searching for COW VMA resulted in sub-optimal pages sharing on restore
  • FIFO-s path was restored in wrong mount namespace
  • Mountpoint fsnotify could be restored on a bind-mount
  • One tmpfs mounted several times was dumped several times
  • Bind-mount's root path of the top mount was calculated with error
  • Fix device number calculation out of major:minor on some distros
  • Devpts mount options got lost on dump
  • Page-pipes grew endlessly resulting in dump failures on big VMAs
  • IO and PF mappings were tried to be dumped
  • Two merged MAP_GROWSDOWN VMAs got dumped with overlapping guard page
  • Too small shared area was used to fetch tasks mappings that resulted in failed dump of huge mappings
  • Many fixes in build system
  • Zdtm's COW test sometimes ignored COW failures


v. 1.3-rc1Edit

Tarball: criu-1.3-rc1.tar.bz2
Version: 1.3-rc1
Released: 25 Apr 2014
GIT tag: v1.3-rc1

New featuresEdit

  • AArch64
  • Multiple mount namespaces
  • FPU state restore control
    • Restore old FPU state on newer CPUs
    • Ability to ignore FPU restoration
  • Support stopped multi-threaded tasks
  • CRIU now can execv() other binary right after restore is complete
  • Inode-reverse mapping can be enforced to allow live-migration with FS copying
  • Gold linker can now be used to compile CRIU
  • "Berserker" test to check CRIU scalability
  • Punch pages from mem images on restore (optimizes live-migration)

OptimizationsEdit

  • Batched deduplication of memory images
  • Packed rlimits into core image
  • Packed timers into core image

FixesEdit

  • Bad checks for kcmp() ret codes resulted in errors in file sharing detection
  • Multiple mmaps of same files with different flags blocked the restore
  • Integer overflow in huge mapping restore caused restoration failure
  • devpts's newinstance option was lost during dump
  • Subsequent dump could try to find old mem dump for newly forked task
  • Bad detection of overmounted mountpoints on fsnotify restore
  • Page-server could read partial message and failed
  • Errors in dumping of two subsequent anon VMAs in some cases
  • Irmap mis-compared devices for disk FSs
  • TMPFS handles always change during dump/restore
  • Pre-dump sometimes hangs on FIFOs
  • Post-restore script fails too late (if does it)


v. 1.2Edit

Tarball: criu-1.2.tar.bz2
Version: 1.2
Released: 26 Feb 2014
GIT tag: v1.2

New featuresEdit

  • Performance improvements
    • Shared entries in reg-files image
    • Less accesses to /proc/$pid/map_files links
    • Cache for /proc/$pid/pagemap reads
    • VDSO page is seeked only in anonymous mappings
    • Task's auxv is read in one call
    • Merged mm and vma image files for better packing
    • NFS inodes' path resolution (for fsnotify) cache
    • One readlink() call when checking anon inodes
    • Don't dump kernel's zero-page
    • Parse fast /proc/self/maps when searching for hole for restorer
    • A bit faster write into image files with writev()
  • Library versioning
  • RPC API got closer to CLI
  • New "post-restore" call in action scripts
  • Logrotate rules file
  • Default log file for service when starting via systemd

FixesEdit

  • A lot for ARM cross-compile
  • Fsnotifies dumping didn't work on NFS
  • Images auto-deduplication only worked one level up
  • Packet socket ID was treated as file-descriptor and close()-d
  • Badly counted pages stats on restore
  • Linked remap name conflict when dump and restore on NFS
  • Sporadic failures in memory draining due to huge pipes used
  • Broken criu show of repeated fields
  • Failure to open mountpoint in foreign pid namespace
  • Unlinked bound unix socket dump error
  • Small memory leak when writing to incremental image(s)
  • Restoring fsnotify for links results in ELOOP
  • Host's PATH is not suitable when execv-ing tar/ip/iptable to restore namespace (workaround, proper fix will be in 1.3)
  • Using subdirs in log file name via RPC breaks security


v. 1.1Edit

Tarball: criu-1.1.tar.bz2
Version: 1.1
Released: 28 Jan 2014
GIT tag: v1.1

FixesEdit

  • Errors from memory dumping are not handled resulting in corrupted dumps
  • EOF detection in stacked images is done with error
  • Stacked images don't work on non-shared FS (missing pagemap-s)


v. 1.1-rc2Edit

Tarball: criu-1.1-rc2.tar.bz2
Version: 1.1-rc2
Released: 20 Jan 2014
GIT tag: v1.1-rc2

FixesEdit

  • Crash in criu check
  • RPC check always fail on 3.11 kernel
  • Failed fork() didn't abort restore
  • Dump fail not reported via RPC
  • RPC client disconnect wasn't handled
  • Page server could connect to self for writing images
  • Hang on pre-dumping task livig in net-namespace
  • VDSO page mis-handle on pre-dump
  • FPU state loss on pre-dump
  • Memory tracking turns ON w/o request
  • Various fixes (and improvements) in build system


v. 1.1-rc1Edit

Tarball: criu-1.1-rc1.tar.bz2
Version: 1.1-rc1
Released: 30 Dec 2013
GIT tag: v1.1-rc1

New featuresEdit

  • libcriu.so -- wrapper library for RPC clients
  • Plugins
    • External unix sockets
    • External bind mounts
    • External net devices
    • Unknown file types
  • Images deduplication in incremental dumps
  • Integration with systemd
  • Filtering of criu show output
  Note: The API defined in the first two items above may change after -rc1

FixesEdit

  • Errors in unlinked files/sockets detection on BTRFS
  • NFS silly-rename files are not treated as unlinked
  • Freezer fail to seize quickly forking/pthread_create-ing tasks
  • Extra stop signal queued for stopped tasks after pre-dump
  • Wrong dying task state detection
  • Lost RPC dump response
  • Crash when reporting restore error via RPC
  • Negative return code into shell
  • Tasks left in wrong states after failed dump
  • A little bit more verbose check action
  • Coverity checks fail here and there


v. 1.0Edit

Tarball: criu-1.0.tar.bz2
Version: 1.0
Released: 25 Nov 2013
GIT tag: v1.0

FixesEdit

  • After --leave-running linked remaps were not cleaned
  • TCP was left locked after --leave-running
  • Weak criteria in memory COW detection
  • Private mapping's premmapped address overwrote file ID
  • Restorer memory could overlap with timers/signals arrays
  • RPC worker reused options from service task
  • Suboptimal memory utilization by restorer arguments
  • TCP unsent/unacked data boundary was lost
  • Wrong dev_t decoding on 64 bit
  • Unpredictable daemons (service and page-service) working dir
  • Parasite stack could be corrupted by its arguments
  • Error from exe link restore was ignored
  • Artificial small limit on the number of shared memory segments to restore
  • Bug in ARM VFP restore
  • VDSO proxy was unmapped at the very end of restore

New featuresEdit

  • -W option to specify working dir
  • CHECK request in RPC
  • Optimized headers
  • More info in logs about undumpable files
  • More comments about tricky dump/restore places
  • Generic memory allocation for restorer


See alsoEdit