When "multipath -f" is run on a device that doesn't exist or isn't a multipath device, the command will not remove any device, but it will still return success. Multiple functions rely on _dm_flush_map() returning success when called with name that doesn't match any multipath device. So before calling _dm_flush_map(), call dm_is_mpath(), to check if the device exists and is a multipath device, and return failure if it's not. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> --- multipath/main.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/multipath/main.c b/multipath/main.c index d09f62db..e865309d 100644 --- a/multipath/main.c +++ b/multipath/main.c @@ -1060,6 +1060,11 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[]) if (retries < 0) retries = conf->remove_retries; if (cmd == CMD_FLUSH_ONE) { + if (dm_is_mpath(dev) != 1) { + condlog(0, "failed removing \"%s\"", dev); + r = RTVL_FAIL; + goto out; + } r = dm_suspend_and_flush_map(dev, retries) ? RTVL_FAIL : RTVL_OK; goto out; -- 2.17.2 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel