When a path is removed the previous checker message is still kept in the checker context, and will be printed upon each check. This causes multipath to print out 'path is up' even though it already has been removed from sysfs. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- multipathd/main.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/multipathd/main.c b/multipathd/main.c index 91d7bfc..2633da9 100644 --- a/multipathd/main.c +++ b/multipathd/main.c @@ -1124,6 +1124,8 @@ check_path (struct vectors * vecs, struct path * pp) newstate = path_offline(pp); if (newstate == PATH_UP) newstate = get_state(pp, 1); + else + checker_clear_message(&pp->checker); if (newstate == PATH_WILD || newstate == PATH_UNCHECKED) { condlog(2, "%s: unusable path", pp->dev); @@ -1150,7 +1152,9 @@ check_path (struct vectors * vecs, struct path * pp) if (newstate != pp->state) { int oldstate = pp->state; pp->state = newstate; - LOG_MSG(1, checker_message(&pp->checker)); + + if (strlen(checker_message(&pp->checker))) + LOG_MSG(1, checker_message(&pp->checker)); /* * upon state change, reset the checkint @@ -1232,7 +1236,8 @@ check_path (struct vectors * vecs, struct path * pp) pp->tick = pp->checkint; } } - else if (newstate == PATH_DOWN) { + else if (newstate == PATH_DOWN && + strlen(checker_message(&pp->checker))) { if (conf->log_checker_err == LOG_CHKR_ERR_ONCE) LOG_MSG(3, checker_message(&pp->checker)); else -- 1.8.1.4 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel