[dm-devel] [PATCH] multipathd: update path's udev in uev_update_path

[Martin Wilck]

On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 02:30 +0000, Wuchongyun wrote:
> Hi Martin and Ben,
> Could you help to review this patch, thanks.
> 
> When receiving a change uevent and calling uev_update_path, current
> code
> not update the path's udev, if use pp->udev to query the udev
> database
> info will get the old data. So it should update the path's udev with
> the
> new udev from the new uevent in uev_update_path also.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chongyun Wu <wu.chongyun at h3c.com>
> ---
>  multipathd/main.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/multipathd/main.c b/multipathd/main.c
> index 27cf234..e7a4f4b 100644
> --- a/multipathd/main.c
> +++ b/multipathd/main.c
> @@ -937,6 +937,9 @@ uev_update_path (struct uevent *uev, struct
> vectors * vecs)
>  	if (pp) {
>  		struct multipath *mpp = pp->mpp;
>  
> +		udev_device_unref(pp->udev);
> +		pp->udev = udev_device_ref(uev->udev);
> +
>  		if (disable_changed_wwids &&
>  		    (strlen(pp->wwid) || pp->wwid_changed)) {
>  			char wwid[WWID_SIZE];

The general idea is correct, but I fear we need to do more.

Basically, if relevant udev properties have changed, we need to call
pathinfo() on the changed path. Getting this right is subtle, I guess.
We can't simply change the path properties in the pathvec, because
there'll be locking issues, and changed path properties might affect
how the path is handled. The path may have gone R/O, or even have
changed wwid. The safest course of action might be to delete and re-add 
the path if any important properties have changed. But blindly deleting
and re-adding would be wrong as well...

Ben has recently done work in this area, so I'll leave the verdict to
him for now.

@Ben, AFAICS this patch shows that disable_changed_wwids won't work
correctly as long as the WWID is derived from udev, which is the
default case these days. Or am I overlooking something?

Martin

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> 
> Regards
> Chongyun

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