Re: [PATCH] Create new md devices consistently

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On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:04:00 -0700 Justin Maggard <jmaggard10@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>  Creating a new MD device with the name 'd-0' results in some
>  unexpected behavior, since mdadm sees that '-0' is a
>  non-negative integer and therefore makes a "partitionable"
>  device (/dev/md_d0).  This is not the expected behavior,
>  since the documentation mentions 'dN' several places, and a
>  reboot brings it up as /dev/md/d-0.  Make this consistent
>  by ensuring that the character immediately following 'd' is
>  a digit during creation.
> 
> ---
>  mdopen.c |    5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mdopen.c b/mdopen.c
> index 61eda81..24188df 100644
> --- a/mdopen.c
> +++ b/mdopen.c
> @@ -207,7 +207,10 @@ int create_mddev(char *dev, char *name, int autof, int trustworthy,
>  			char *ep;
>  			if (cname[0] == 'd')
>  				sp++;
> -			num = strtoul(sp, &ep, 10);
> +			if (isdigit(sp[0]))
> +				num = strtoul(sp, &ep, 10);
> +			else
> +				ep = sp;
>  			if (ep == sp || *ep || num < 0)
>  				num = -1;
>  			else if (cname[0] == 'd')

applied, thanks.

Will be in mdadm-3.2.6 which I plan to release tomorrow.

NeilBrown

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