Re: [PATCH v4 3/6] multipathd: fix ev_remove_path return code handling

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On Mon, 2021-05-17 at 20:51 +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-05-17 at 11:29 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> > When ev_remove_path() returned success, callers assumed that the
> > path
> > (and possibly the map) had been removed.  When ev_remove_path()
> > returned
> > failure, callers assumed that the path had not been removed.
> > However,
> > the path could be removed on both success or failure. This could
> > cause
> > callers to dereference the path after it was removed.
> > 
> > To deal with this, make ev_remove_path() return a different
> > symbolic
> > value for each outcome, and make the callers react appropriately
> > for
> > the different values. Found by coverity.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx>+
> 
> Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@xxxxxxxx>
> 

It just occured to me that we should probably not have set changed the
return code of cli_del_path() because of a strdup() failure for the
reply string. (It was my suggestion, I know).

Anyway, I've pushed this to "queue" already.
We can change this in a follow-up patch.

Regards
Martin


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