[dm-devel] [PATCH v3 13/20] multipath -u: treat failed wwids as invalid

[Martin Wilck]

If a WWID has been marked as "failed", don't treat it as "valid multipath
device path" in multipath -c/-u. This is key to achieve consistency between
multipathd and udev rule processing.

Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>
---
 multipath/main.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/multipath/main.c b/multipath/main.c
index dbe908e..88495f8 100644
--- a/multipath/main.c
+++ b/multipath/main.c
@@ -450,8 +450,12 @@ configure (struct config *conf, enum mpath_cmds cmd,
 		 * Paths listed in the wwids file are always considered valid.
 		 */
 		if (cmd == CMD_VALID_PATH) {
-			if ((!find_multipaths_on(conf) && ignore_wwids(conf)) ||
-			    check_wwids_file(refwwid, 0) == 0)
+			if (is_failed_wwid(refwwid) == WWID_IS_FAILED) {
+				r = 1;
+				goto print_valid;
+			} else if ((!find_multipaths_on(conf) &&
+				  ignore_wwids(conf)) ||
+				 check_wwids_file(refwwid, 0) == 0)
 				r = 0;
 			if (r == 0 ||
 			    !find_multipaths_on(conf) || !ignore_wwids(conf)) {
-- 
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