Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] multipath: strdup multipath alias, so that it isn't deleted.

[Christophe Varoqui <christophe varoqui gmail com>]

On mer., 2011-08-31 at 21:45 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> When a multipath device is added to multipathd with ev_add_map(),
> > the alias is not duplicated, and is freed immediately after
> ev_add_map()
> > returns, causing a memory error. This patch corrects that.
> > 
Merged.

Do you think the "mpp->alias = NULL" is still necessary in the following
setup_multipath() error code path ? alias is set to NULL by
free_multipath() these days ...

>       if (setup_multipath(vecs, mpp)) {
>               mpp->alias = NULL;                <========