When multipath tries to open the wwids file and finds it empty or missing, it writes the header to the file. When it tried to wipe the wwids from an empty or missing file, it didn't seek back to the start of the file after truncating it. This caused the the wwids file to have a patch of zeroed bytes at the start. This patch fixes this by always seeking back to the start of the file before rewriting the header. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> --- libmultipath/wwids.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/libmultipath/wwids.c b/libmultipath/wwids.c index 91b07a7..eca1799 100644 --- a/libmultipath/wwids.c +++ b/libmultipath/wwids.c @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include <string.h> #include <limits.h> #include <stdio.h> +#include <sys/types.h> #include "checkers.h" #include "vector.h" @@ -100,6 +101,11 @@ replace_wwids(vector mp) condlog(0, "cannot truncate wwids file : %s", strerror(errno)); goto out_file; } + if (lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET) < 0) { + condlog(0, "cannot seek to the start of the file : %s", + strerror(errno)); + goto out_file; + } len = strlen(WWIDS_FILE_HEADER); if (write_all(fd, WWIDS_FILE_HEADER, len) != len) { condlog(0, "Can't write wwid file header : %s", -- 1.8.2 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel