Now that multipathd can drop the vecs lock and sleep in-between when the checker runs and when the path gets updated, it is possible for the user to either fail or reinstate the path in this window. If a path gets manually failed in the window between when the checker starts and the path is updated, the checker will have already been started, on the path, and if multipathd read the results like normal, it could simply reinstate the path. To avoid this, when a path checker is disabled, the checker path_state and message are updated, just like they are when checker_check() is run on a disabled path, so that when checker_get_state() is called, it will always return the same results for a disabled checker, regardless of when it was disabled. Reinstating the path doesn't cause many problems, but still can be improved. Since the checker was disabled when it would have been started, it didn't run during this cycle, only the kernel state will get updated. The rest of the path update changes won't happen until the next time the checker runs. This is the case regardless of whether or not the path was reinstated in the window between when the checker starts and the path is updated. To make reinstated paths get updated sooner, pp->tick is now set to 1 when the path is reinstated. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> --- libmultipath/checkers.c | 2 ++ multipathd/cli_handlers.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/libmultipath/checkers.c b/libmultipath/checkers.c index ce3e48bd..f3e98352 100644 --- a/libmultipath/checkers.c +++ b/libmultipath/checkers.c @@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ void checker_disable (struct checker * c) if (!c) return; c->disable = 1; + c->msgid = CHECKER_MSGID_DISABLED; + c->path_state = PATH_UNCHECKED; } int checker_init (struct checker * c, void ** mpctxt_addr) diff --git a/multipathd/cli_handlers.c b/multipathd/cli_handlers.c index 42603544..184c3f91 100644 --- a/multipathd/cli_handlers.c +++ b/multipathd/cli_handlers.c @@ -1108,6 +1108,7 @@ cli_reinstate(void * v, struct strbuf *reply, void * data) pp->mpp->alias, pp->dev_t); checker_enable(&pp->checker); + pp->tick = 1; return dm_reinstate_path(pp->mpp->alias, pp->dev_t); } -- 2.45.0
