Multipathd wasn't setting buflen when it read in a uevent message. This was causing buflen to be used unitialized, and would often keep multipathd from processing uevents. This patch correctly initializes buflen to the size of the buffer received. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> --- libmultipath/uevent.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: multipath-tools/libmultipath/uevent.c =================================================================== --- multipath-tools.orig/libmultipath/uevent.c +++ multipath-tools/libmultipath/uevent.c @@ -231,7 +231,8 @@ int uevent_listen(int (*uev_trigger)(str smsg.msg_control = cred_msg; smsg.msg_controllen = sizeof(cred_msg); - if (recvmsg(sock, &smsg, 0) < 0) { + buflen = recvmsg(sock, &smsg, 0); + if (buflen < 0) { if (errno != EINTR) condlog(0, "error receiving message"); continue; @@ -286,8 +287,10 @@ int uevent_listen(int (*uev_trigger)(str /* action string */ uev->action = buffer; pos = strchr(buffer, '@'); - if (!pos) + if (!pos) { + condlog(3, "bad action string '%s'", buffer); continue; + } pos[0] = '\0'; /* sysfs path */ -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel