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Josh Siviour eb53dc3396 fix: reap orphaned nbdkit processes recovery cannot adopt (#783)
* fix: reap orphaned nbdkit processes recovery cannot adopt

recoverMountedVolumes already rebuilds MountedVolumes from surviving
nbdkit processes, but an unadoptable backend (buildVB fails, most
commonly a deleted volume) or a duplicate corroborated process for an
already-adopted volume was logged and left running forever, with no
later pass reconsidering it.

Reap both classes, but only when a scan of every other process's
/proc/<pid>/cmdline on the host finds no reference to the backend's
NBD endpoint -- its socket path, or its 127.0.0.1:<port> pair, checked
both joined and split across server.host=/server.port=. A referencing
process, or a scan that could not complete, both leave the process
running and log loudly instead, since signalling the wrong process
destroys a running guest's data path.

* fix: treat an unreadable /proc candidate as inconclusive, not absent

endpointReferencer skipped any os.ReadFile failure on a candidate's
cmdline, which silently counted a read it could not perform as
evidence the candidate does not reference the endpoint. Under a /proc
mounted with hidepid, a guest QEMU owned by another uid is invisible
this way, so an in-use backend could be reaped.

Only os.IsNotExist (the candidate exited between ReadDir and the read)
continues the scan. Any other error now returns non-nil from
endpointReferencer, which reapOrphanedNbdkit already treats as an
inconclusive scan: leave the process running, log at WARN.

* fix: stop orphan nbdkit reaping from killing live backends under hidepid=invisible

hidepid=invisible hides another uid's /proc/<pid> directory entry outright,
not just its contents, so a live QEMU referencer (owned by spinifex-daemon)
never appeared in viperblockd's scan at all -- a clean "no referencer" result
that was actually just a hidden one. reapOrphanedNbdkit now detects the
hazardous mount via /proc/self/mountinfo and declines to reap rather than
trust a scan that could be blind to a live guest.

spinifex-viperblock.service drops ProtectProc=invisible (now default, same
tradeoff already accepted by spinifex-qmp-collector.service) so the scan can
actually see spinifex-daemon's processes again once it's safe to trust.
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