Right now, multipathd ignores failures from pidfile_create. This means that multiple multipathd processes can be running at the same time. If someone runs "multipathd" and doesn't add a command after it, a new process will be created, even if one is already running. To avoid this, multipathd needs to actually fail if the pidfile can't be created or locked. Since we only really need the pidfile to keep from launching multiple processes, we can create in earlier in startup. This patch moves pidfile_create to as soon as we can be sure that we can log an error message, and fails multipathd if the create fails. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> --- multipathd/main.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/multipathd/main.c b/multipathd/main.c index 8f4fb58..06876b9 100644 --- a/multipathd/main.c +++ b/multipathd/main.c @@ -1768,7 +1768,7 @@ child (void * param) #ifdef USE_SYSTEMD unsigned long checkint; #endif - int rc, pid_rc; + int rc; char *envp; mlockall(MCL_CURRENT | MCL_FUTURE); @@ -1786,6 +1786,12 @@ child (void * param) log_thread_start(&log_attr); pthread_attr_destroy(&log_attr); } + if (pidfile_create(DEFAULT_PIDFILE, daemon_pid)) { + condlog(1, "failed to create pidfile"); + if (logsink == 1) + log_thread_stop(); + exit(1); + } running_state = DAEMON_START; @@ -1905,10 +1911,6 @@ child (void * param) } pthread_attr_destroy(&misc_attr); - /* Startup complete, create logfile */ - pid_rc = pidfile_create(DEFAULT_PIDFILE, daemon_pid); - /* Ignore errors, we can live without */ - running_state = DAEMON_RUNNING; #ifdef USE_SYSTEMD sd_notify(0, "READY=1\nSTATUS=running"); @@ -1959,10 +1961,8 @@ child (void * param) dm_lib_exit(); /* We're done here */ - if (!pid_rc) { - condlog(3, "unlink pidfile"); - unlink(DEFAULT_PIDFILE); - } + condlog(3, "unlink pidfile"); + unlink(DEFAULT_PIDFILE); condlog(2, "--------shut down-------"); -- 1.8.3.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel