[dm-devel] [PATCH v2] multipath: make devt2devname use lstat to check sysfs links

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Fri Jan 11 07:01:17 UTC 2013


On 01/10/2013 09:06 PM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> dm_reassign wasn't working correctly for me because devt2devname used stat()
> to check if /sys/dev/block/major:minor was a symlink.  But stat() never returns
> a symlink, if follows it. It needs to use lstat() instead.  Also, I made
> multipath log a message when a dm device gets reassigned to use multipath.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>

Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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