[dm-devel] [PATCH 8/8] dm-mpath: do not activate failed paths

[Junichi Nomura]

On 02/27/14 16:30, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> activate_path() is run without a lock, so the path might be
> set to failed before activate_path() had a chance to run.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>
> ---
>  drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> index 0a40fa9..22e7365 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
> @@ -1196,8 +1196,11 @@ static void activate_path(struct work_struct *work)
>  	struct pgpath *pgpath =
>  		container_of(work, struct pgpath, activate_path.work);
>  
> -	scsi_dh_activate(bdev_get_queue(pgpath->path.dev->bdev),
> -				pg_init_done, pgpath);
> +	if (pgpath->is_active)
> +		scsi_dh_activate(bdev_get_queue(pgpath->path.dev->bdev),
> +				 pg_init_done, pgpath);
> +	else
> +		pg_init_done(pgpath, SCSI_DH_DEV_OFFLINED);

Hi Hannes,

What problem are you going to fix with this?
It is still possible that the path is set to failed just after
"if (pgpath->is_active)" and before "scsi_dh_activate".

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Jun'ichi Nomura, NEC Corporation