If a WWID has been marked as "failed", don't treat it as "valid multipath device path" in multipath -c/-u. This is key to achieve consistency between multipathd and udev rule processing. Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx> --- multipath/main.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/multipath/main.c b/multipath/main.c index 59a72ed..942caf4 100644 --- a/multipath/main.c +++ b/multipath/main.c @@ -450,8 +450,12 @@ configure (struct config *conf, enum mpath_cmds cmd, * Paths listed in the wwids file are always considered valid. */ if (cmd == CMD_VALID_PATH) { - if ((!find_multipaths_on(conf) && ignore_wwids_on(conf)) - || check_wwids_file(refwwid, 0) == 0) + if (is_failed_wwid(refwwid) == WWID_IS_FAILED) { + r = 1; + goto print_valid; + } else if ((!find_multipaths_on(conf) && + ignore_wwids_on(conf)) || + check_wwids_file(refwwid, 0) == 0) r = 0; if (r == 0 || !find_multipaths_on(conf) || -- 2.16.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel