[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/6] multipath: persistent reservation fixes

[Martin Wilck]

On Tue, 2022-12-20 at 17:41 -0600, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> The first three patches fix issues with multipathd's persistent
> reservation handling. As long as mpathpersist is run on a multipath
> device while multipathd is montioring it, everything works fine. But
> if
> new paths to that device appear or first become active while
> multipathd
> isn't running or the multipath device doesn't exist, multipathd might
> not register keys to those paths when it starts up or adds the
> multipath
> device.
> 
> These patches also fix an issue where, if there are no active paths
> for
> multipathd to use for checking registered keys on device creation, it
> will treat the device as if there are no registered keys.
> 
> The other three patches fix issues I found while looking into the
> persistent reservation problems.
> 
> Benjamin Marzinski (6):
>   multipathd: make pr registration consistent
>   libmultipath: make prflag an enum
>   multipathd: handle no active paths in update_map_pr
>   multipathd: add missing newline to cli_del_map reply
>   libmultipath: skip extra vector work in remove_maps
>   libmultipath: orphan paths if coalesce_paths frees newmp
> 
>  libmpathpersist/mpath_persist_int.c | 10 ++++-
>  libmultipath/configure.c            |  7 +++-
>  libmultipath/structs.h              |  9 ++++-
>  libmultipath/structs_vec.c          |  6 +--
>  multipathd/cli_handlers.c           | 20 +++++-----
>  multipathd/main.c                   | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
> --
>  6 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> 

For the series:
Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>