Comment 45 for bug 1994002

Verification done on ussuri-proposed.
Steps explained in previous comments.

The migration status with the synthetic reproducer in GDB
is now still 'SETUP' (which is not expected to have RAM statistics),
instead of 'ACTIVE' (which is, and caused the issue):

(qemu) info migrate
...
Migration status: setup

...

$ lsb_release -cs
bionic

$ apt policy qemu-system-x86
qemu-system-x86:
  Installed: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27~cloud0
  Candidate: 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27~cloud0
  Version table:
 *** 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27~cloud0 500
        500 http://ubuntu-cloud.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic-proposed/ussuri/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
...

$ file $(which qemu-system-x86_64) | grep -o 'BuildID.*,'
BuildID[sha1]=82a4159294ae653e770be24bbcfbb35703e60005,

(Corey provided the .ddeb packages which is not yet exposed/published in PPAs/archive.)

$ dpkg-deb -c qemu-system-x86-dbgsym_4.2-3ubuntu6.27~cloud0_amd64.ddeb | fgrep .debug
-rw-r--r-- root/root 21271712 2023-10-26 14:08 ./usr/lib/debug/.build-id/48/bd78ceee4a669d37efd9ac8d851947205de4f7.debug
-rw-r--r-- root/root 21321832 2023-10-26 14:08 ./usr/lib/debug/.build-id/82/a4159294ae653e770be24bbcfbb35703e60005.debug

$ sudo apt install ./qemu-system-x86-dbgsym_4.2-3ubuntu6.27~cloud0_amd64.ddeb

$ apt source qemu

$ head -n1 qemu-4.2/debian/changelog
qemu (1:4.2-3ubuntu6.27~cloud0) bionic-ussuri; urgency=medium

 915 static void fill_source_migration_info(MigrationInfo *info)
...
 926 case MIGRATION_STATUS_SETUP:
 927 info->has_status = true;
 928 info->has_total_time = false;
 929 break;

Terminal 1)

$ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -nographic -S -incoming tcp:0:4444

Terminal 2)

$ gdb \
  -ex 'set non-stop on' -ex 'set pagination off' -ex 'set confirm off' \
  qemu-system-x86_64
...
Reading symbols from qemu-system-x86_64...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/82/a4159294ae653e770be24bbcfbb35703e60005.debug...done.
done.

(gdb) b migrate_set_state
Breakpoint 1 at 0x6ba8c0: file ./migration/migration.c, line 1464.

(gdb) b migration/migration.c:928
Breakpoint 2 at 0x6b9fb3: file ./migration/migration.c, line 928.

(gdb) run -nodefaults -nographic -S -monitor tcp:0:3333,server,wait=off
...

Terminal 3)

$ nc 127.0.0.1 3333
QEMU 4.2.1 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) migrate -d tcp:127.0.0.1:4444

Terminal 2)

Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 1, migrate_set_state (state=0x5555566a11d8, old_state=0, new_state=1) at ./migration/migration.c:1464
1464 ./migration/migration.c: No such file or directory.

(gdb) p (MigrationStatus) 0
$1 = MIGRATION_STATUS_NONE

(gdb) p (MigrationStatus) 1
$2 = MIGRATION_STATUS_SETUP

(gdb) c
Continuing.
...

Thread 5 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 1, migrate_set_state (state=0x5555566a11d8, old_state=1, new_state=4) at ./migration/migration.c:1464
1464 in ./migration/migration.c

(gdb) p (MigrationStatus) 1
$3 = MIGRATION_STATUS_SETUP

(gdb) p (MigrationStatus) 4
$4 = MIGRATION_STATUS_ACTIVE

(gdb)

Terminal 3)

(qemu) info migrate

Terminal 2)

Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, fill_source_migration_info (info=0x5555572d29b0) at ./migration/migration.c:928
928 in ./migration/migration.c

(gdb) info threads
  Id Target Id Frame
* 1 Thread 0x7ffff7fcdcc0 (LWP 1477) "qemu-system-x86" fill_source_migration_info (info=0x5555572d29b0) at ./migration/migration.c:928
  2 Thread 0x7fffe61ff700 (LWP 1481) "qemu-system-x86" (running)
  3 Thread 0x7fffe59fe700 (LWP 1482) "qemu-system-x86" (running)
  5 Thread 0x7fffdd7fe700 (LWP 1485) "qemu-system-x86" migrate_set_state (state=0x5555566a11d8, old_state=1, new_state=4) at ./migration/migration.c:1464

(gdb) thread 5
[Switching to thread 5 (Thread 0x7fffdd7fe700 (LWP 1485))]
#0 migrate_set_state (state=0x5555566a11d8, old_state=1, new_state=4) at ./migration/migration.c:1464
1464 in ./migration/migration.c

(gdb) continue &
Continuing.

(gdb) info threads
  Id Target Id Frame
  1 Thread 0x7ffff7fcdcc0 (LWP 1477) "qemu-system-x86" fill_source_migration_info (info=0x5555572d29b0) at ./migration/migration.c:928
  2 Thread 0x7fffe61ff700 (LWP 1481) "qemu-system-x86" (running)
  3 Thread 0x7fffe59fe700 (LWP 1482) "qemu-system-x86" (running)
* 5 Thread 0x7fffdd7fe700 (LWP 1485) "qemu-system-x86" (running)

(gdb) thread 1
[Switching to thread 1 (Thread 0x7ffff7fcdcc0 (LWP 1477))]
#0 fill_source_migration_info (info=0x5555572d29b0) at ./migration/migration.c:928
928 in ./migration/migration.c

(gdb) c
Continuing.

Terminal 3)

(qemu) info migrate
info migrate
globals:
store-global-state: on
only-migratable: off
send-configuration: on
send-section-footer: on
decompress-error-check: on
clear-bitmap-shift: 18
Migration status: setup
total time: 0 milliseconds

Status is now still 'SETUP' (which is not expected to have RAM statistics), not 'ACTIVE' (which is, and caused the issue).