Re: [PATCH 4/6] libmultipath: fix suspended devs from failed reloads

[Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>]

On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 11:57 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> When multipath reloads a device, it can either fail while loading the
> new table or while resuming the device. If it fails while resuming
> the
> device, the device can get stuck in the suspended state.  To fix
> this,
> multipath needs to resume the device again so that it can continue
> using
> the old table.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
> ---
>  libmultipath/devmapper.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  libmultipath/devmapper.h |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/libmultipath/devmapper.c b/libmultipath/devmapper.c
> index 2c4a13a..69b634b 100644
> --- a/libmultipath/devmapper.c
> +++ b/libmultipath/devmapper.c
> @@ -396,7 +396,13 @@ int dm_addmap_reload(struct multipath *mpp, char
> *params, int flush)
>  	if (r)
>  		r = dm_simplecmd(DM_DEVICE_RESUME, mpp->alias,
> !flush,
>  				 1, udev_flags, 0);
> -	return r;
> +	if (r)
> +		return r;
> +
> +	if (dm_is_suspended(mpp->alias))
> +		dm_simplecmd(DM_DEVICE_RESUME, mpp->alias, !flush,
> 1,
> +			     udev_flags, 0);
> +	return 0;
>  }

Why would the second DM_DEVICE_RESUME call succeed if the first one
failed?

Martin

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