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From: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
To: "James E . J . Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	"Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@lists.linux.dev,
	Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Subject: [PATCH] scsi: scsi_dh: Return error pointer in scsi_dh_attached_handler_name
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:48:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251121234834.1035028-1-bmarzins@redhat.com> (raw)

If scsi_dh_attached_handler_name() fails to allocate the handler name,
dm-multipath (its only caller) assumes there is no attached device
handler, and sets the device up incorrectly. Return an error pointer
instead, so multipath can distinguish between failure and success where
there is no attached device handler.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/md/dm-mpath.c  | 8 ++++++++
 drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c | 8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index c18358271618..063dc526fe04 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -950,6 +950,14 @@ static struct pgpath *parse_path(struct dm_arg_set *as, struct path_selector *ps
 
 	q = bdev_get_queue(p->path.dev->bdev);
 	attached_handler_name = scsi_dh_attached_handler_name(q, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (IS_ERR(attached_handler_name)) {
+		if (PTR_ERR(attached_handler_name) == -ENODEV)
+			attached_handler_name = NULL;
+		else {
+			r = PTR_ERR(attached_handler_name);
+			goto bad;
+		}
+	}
 	if (attached_handler_name || m->hw_handler_name) {
 		INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&p->activate_path, activate_path_work);
 		r = setup_scsi_dh(p->path.dev->bdev, m, &attached_handler_name, &ti->error);
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c
index 7b56e00c7df6..b9d805317814 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c
@@ -353,7 +353,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(scsi_dh_attach);
  *      that may have a device handler attached
  * @gfp - the GFP mask used in the kmalloc() call when allocating memory
  *
- * Returns name of attached handler, NULL if no handler is attached.
+ * Returns name of attached handler, NULL if no handler is attached, or
+ * and error pointer if an error occurred.
  * Caller must take care to free the returned string.
  */
 const char *scsi_dh_attached_handler_name(struct request_queue *q, gfp_t gfp)
@@ -363,10 +364,11 @@ const char *scsi_dh_attached_handler_name(struct request_queue *q, gfp_t gfp)
 
 	sdev = scsi_device_from_queue(q);
 	if (!sdev)
-		return NULL;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 
 	if (sdev->handler)
-		handler_name = kstrdup(sdev->handler->name, gfp);
+		handler_name = kstrdup(sdev->handler->name, gfp) ? :
+			       ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	put_device(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
 	return handler_name;
 }
-- 
2.50.1


             reply	other threads:[~2025-11-21 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-11-21 23:48 Benjamin Marzinski [this message]
2025-11-27 15:26 ` [PATCH] scsi: scsi_dh: Return error pointer in scsi_dh_attached_handler_name Martin Wilck
2025-12-02  1:00   ` Benjamin Marzinski
2025-12-02 10:01     ` Martin Wilck

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