[dm-devel] an unintentionally blacklisted LU and a multipathd SIGSEGV in 0.4 .5-pre3

[Christophe Varoqui]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 10:58:35AM -0400, goggin, edward wrote:
> First, an LU with a scsi_id assigned UID of
> 36006016087711200afd8d0905137d911
> was being blacklisted because the default blacklist includes a regular
> expression
> of the form "(ram | raw | loop | fd)[0-9]*" which happens to match the
> substring "fd8"

merged, thanks.

> 
> Second, the multipathd in version 0.4.5-pre3 of multipath-tools will SIGSEGV
> whenever it dereferences a null mpp field of a path struct in checkerloop().
> This
> field will be null at least in cases where the path is either blacklisted or
> its UID
> cannot be determined.
> 
Yes I merged another fix for that earlier today.
I chose a less radical approach, by checking pp->mpp before using it.
Do you care ?

Regards,
cvaroqui