[dm-devel] [PATCH 06/10] multipath: set cookie before using it.

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Sun Oct 30 13:46:41 UTC 2016


On 10/29/2016 04:55 AM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> dm_task_set_cookie() expects the cookie to be initialized when it is
> called, but dm_rename() didn't initialized it, causing renames to fail
> some of the time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
> ---
>  libmultipath/devmapper.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/libmultipath/devmapper.c b/libmultipath/devmapper.c
> index ee61ff0..546e227 100644
> --- a/libmultipath/devmapper.c
> +++ b/libmultipath/devmapper.c
> @@ -1424,7 +1424,7 @@ dm_rename (const char * old, char * new, char *delim, int skip_kpartx)
>  {
>  	int r = 0;
>  	struct dm_task *dmt;
> -	uint32_t cookie;
> +	uint32_t cookie = 0;
>  	uint16_t udev_flags = DM_UDEV_DISABLE_LIBRARY_FALLBACK | ((skip_kpartx == SKIP_KPARTX_ON)? MPATH_UDEV_NO_KPARTX_FLAG : 0);
>
>  	if (dm_rename_partmaps(old, new, delim))
>
We never get this 'cookie' business right ...

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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