Generate fatal error when cri plugin fail to start.

Signed-off-by: Lantao Liu <lantaol@google.com>

pkg/server/events.go

@@ -116,15 +116,16 @@ func convertEvent(e *gogotypes.Any) (string, interface{}, error) {
 }
 
 // start starts the event monitor which monitors and handles all container events. It returns
-// a channel for the caller to wait for the event monitor to stop. start must be called after
+// an error channel for the caller to wait for stop errors from the event monitor.
-// subscribe.
+// start must be called after subscribe.
-func (em *eventMonitor) start() (<-chan struct{}, error) {
+func (em *eventMonitor) start() <-chan error {
+	errCh := make(chan error)
 	if em.ch == nil || em.errCh == nil {
-		return nil, errors.New("event channel is nil")
+		panic("event channel is nil")
 	}
-	closeCh := make(chan struct{})
 	backOffCheckCh := em.backOff.start()
 	go func() {
+		defer close(errCh)
 		for {
 			select {
 			case e := <-em.ch:
@@ -144,8 +145,11 @@ func (em *eventMonitor) start() (<-chan struct{}, error) {
 					em.backOff.enBackOff(cID, evt)
 				}
 			case err := <-em.errCh:
-				logrus.WithError(err).Error("Failed to handle event stream")
+				// Close errCh in defer directly if there is no error.
-				close(closeCh)
+				if err != nil {
+					logrus.WithError(err).Errorf("Failed to handle event stream")
+					errCh <- err
+				}
 				return
 			case <-backOffCheckCh:
 				cIDs := em.backOff.getExpiredContainers()
@@ -162,7 +166,7 @@ func (em *eventMonitor) start() (<-chan struct{}, error) {
 			}
 		}
 	}()
-	return closeCh, nil
+	return errCh
 }
 
 // stop stops the event monitor. It will close the event channel.

pkg/server/service.go

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package server
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
+	"net/http"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"time"
 
@@ -179,10 +180,7 @@ func (c *criService) Run() error {
 
 	// Start event handler.
 	logrus.Info("Start event monitor")
-	eventMonitorCloseCh, err := c.eventMonitor.start()
+	eventMonitorErrCh := c.eventMonitor.start()
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to start event monitor")
-	}
 
 	// Start snapshot stats syncer, it doesn't need to be stopped.
 	logrus.Info("Start snapshots syncer")
@@ -195,27 +193,32 @@ func (c *criService) Run() error {
 
 	// Start streaming server.
 	logrus.Info("Start streaming server")
-	streamServerCloseCh := make(chan struct{})
+	streamServerErrCh := make(chan error)
 	go func() {
-		if err := c.streamServer.Start(true); err != nil {
+		defer close(streamServerErrCh)
+		if err := c.streamServer.Start(true); err != nil && err != http.ErrServerClosed {
 			logrus.WithError(err).Error("Failed to start streaming server")
+			streamServerErrCh <- err
 		}
-		close(streamServerCloseCh)
 	}()
 
 	// Set the server as initialized. GRPC services could start serving traffic.
 	c.initialized.Set()
 
+	var eventMonitorErr, streamServerErr error
 	// Stop the whole CRI service if any of the critical service exits.
 	select {
-	case <-eventMonitorCloseCh:
+	case eventMonitorErr = <-eventMonitorErrCh:
-	case <-streamServerCloseCh:
+	case streamServerErr = <-streamServerErrCh:
 	}
 	if err := c.Close(); err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to stop cri service")
 	}
-
+	// If the error is set above, err from channel must be nil here, because
-	<-eventMonitorCloseCh
+	// the channel is supposed to be closed. Or else, we wait and set it.
+	if err := <-eventMonitorErrCh; err != nil {
+		eventMonitorErr = err
+	}
 	logrus.Info("Event monitor stopped")
 	// There is a race condition with http.Server.Serve.
 	// When `Close` is called at the same time with `Serve`, `Close`
@@ -227,18 +230,27 @@ func (c *criService) Run() error {
 	// is fixed.
 	const streamServerStopTimeout = 2 * time.Second
 	select {
-	case <-streamServerCloseCh:
+	case err := <-streamServerErrCh:
+		if err != nil {
+			streamServerErr = err
+		}
 		logrus.Info("Stream server stopped")
 	case <-time.After(streamServerStopTimeout):
 		logrus.Errorf("Stream server is not stopped in %q", streamServerStopTimeout)
 	}
+	if eventMonitorErr != nil {
+		return errors.Wrap(eventMonitorErr, "event monitor error")
+	}
+	if streamServerErr != nil {
+		return errors.Wrap(streamServerErr, "stream server error")
+	}
 	return nil
 }
 
-// Stop stops the CRI service.
+// Close stops the CRI service.
+// TODO(random-liu): Make close synchronous.
 func (c *criService) Close() error {
 	logrus.Info("Stop CRI service")
-	// TODO(random-liu): Make event monitor stop synchronous.
 	c.eventMonitor.stop()
 	if err := c.streamServer.Stop(); err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to stop stream server")