Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] multipath: rlookup WWIDs with spaces by alias

[Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins redhat com>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:17:54AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 11/12/2011 05:54 AM, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
>> If a WWID contained spaces, the rlookup code wasn't able to look it up
>> by its user_friendly_name, since the code was only reading the wwid till
>> the first space.  It now reads to the end of the line.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski<bmarzins redhat com>
>> ---
>>   libmultipath/alias.c |    2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> Index: multipath-tools-110412/libmultipath/alias.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- multipath-tools-110412.orig/libmultipath/alias.c
>> +++ multipath-tools-110412/libmultipath/alias.c
>> @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ rlookup_binding(FILE *f, char **map_wwid
>>   		curr_id = scan_devname(alias, NULL); /* TBD: Why this call? */
>>   		if (curr_id>= id)
>>   			id = curr_id + 1;
>> -		wwid = strtok(NULL, " \t");
>> +		wwid = strtok(NULL, "");
>>   		if (!wwid){
>>   			condlog(3,
>>   				"Ignoring malformed line %u in bindings file",
>>
> Please, don't.
>
> We keep on changing this one back and forth about every year.
> (The original patch was by you, back in 2008. Then I changed it back 
> because it breaks compability with existing configuration files. Now you go 
> and change it _again_).
>
> The real problem here is
>
> 'If the WWID contains spaces'
>
> The WWID _never_ should contain spaces. I pretty certain we can't handle 
> WWID with spaces in the bindings file; eg we don't have any quotation 
> mechanism implemented.
> So can't we just settle on 'The WWID must not contain spaces' ?

I suppose that since we're using the "--replace-whitespace" option to
scsi_id by default, I'm fine with not including this patch.

-Ben

>
> Cheers,
>
> Hannes
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