[libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] scsi: Check for invalid target.path after processLU failure

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Tue Mar 31 11:57:10 UTC 2015


On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 07:16:34PM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1171933
> 
> After processing all the LU's and find no "real" LU's - check if perhaps
> the cause of that was a poorly formed 'target.path'. The expection is
> generally that the path is /dev/disk/by-path or at least something in /dev.
> Although it's not impossible for the user to provide something. If they
> do provide something it should be valid or we should just cause a failure
> to start the pool with an appropriate message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/storage/storage_backend_scsi.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend_scsi.c b/src/storage/storage_backend_scsi.c
> index 2f1f5ed..c3a1892 100644
> --- a/src/storage/storage_backend_scsi.c
> +++ b/src/storage/storage_backend_scsi.c
> @@ -467,6 +467,15 @@ virStorageBackendSCSIFindLUsInternal(virStoragePoolObjPtr pool,
>      if (!*found)
>          VIR_DEBUG("No LU found for pool %s", pool->def->name);
>  
> +    if (!*found && !virFileExists(pool->def->target.path) &&
> +        !STRPREFIX(pool->def->target.path, "/dev")) {

Checking for *found here seems pointless. After the logic change in the
previous patch, it is implied by either of the following conditions:

a) If the target path does not start with "/dev", *found will be false:
virStorageBackendStablePath will short-circuit, just strduping
the volume path, and virStorageBackendSCSINewLun will return -1
in that case.

b) If the target path does not exist, it will either be rejected by the
above code path, or by the failed opendir in
virStorageBackendStablePath.


If all you want to do is forbid to start an {,i}SCSI pool that does not
start with /dev, we can do that much earlier in {,I}SCSIStartPool.

To catch wrong paths in /dev, I think the proper way is to stop ignoring
the return value of processLU and make it return -1 on fatal errors
(OOM, pool target path does not exist, etc.) and -2 on errors that won't
necessarily stop us from finding other volumes.

Jan
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