[dm-devel] [PATCH 6/6] multipathd: Remove a busy-waiting loop

[Bart Van Assche]

On 08/17/2016 12:36 PM, Dragan Stancevic wrote:
> Acked-by: dragan.stancevic at canonical.com
> <mailto:dragan.stancevic at canonical.com>
>
> I agree with your patch, I have been tracking an issue where multipathd
> dumps core on the exit path just past the treads being canceled. Your
> patch is very similar to mine (minus nuking the depth) that I was going
> to send out to a user to test with. The checker thread accesses a valid
> pointer with garbage values....

Hello Dragan,

When I prepared my patch I overlooked that multipathd creates most 
threads as detached threads. So I started testing the three attached 
patches on my setup. It would be appreciated if you could have a look at 
these patches.

Thanks,

Bart.
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