Package: multipath-tools
Version: 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-9
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
When executing 'multipath -r' the existing symlinks to dm-X devices
which are present in /dev/mapper are overwritten and replaced with block
devices as demonstrated below:
mike@dl380gen9-01:~$ sudo ls -l /dev/mapper
total 0
crw------- 1 root root 10, 236 Apr 14 14:31 control
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 14:31 mpatha -> ../dm-0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Apr 14 14:31 mpathb -> ../dm-1
mike@dl380gen9-01:~$ sudo multipath -r
reload: mpatha (360002ac0000000000000001d000028be) undef 3PARdata,VV
size=10G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='1 alua' wp=undef
`-+- policy='queue-length 0' prio=50 status=undef
|- 1:0:0:1 sdb 8:16 active ready running
`- 1:0:1:1 sdd 8:48 active ready running
reload: mpathb (360002ac0000000000000001e000028be) undef 3PARdata,VV
size=20G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='1 alua' wp=undef
`-+- policy='queue-length 0' prio=50 status=undef
|- 1:0:0:2 sdc 8:32 active ready running
`- 1:0:1:2 sde 8:64 active ready running
mike@dl380gen9-01:~$ sudo ls -l /dev/mapper
total 0
crw------- 1 root root 10, 236 Apr 14 14:31 control
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 0 Apr 14 14:40 mpatha
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 254, 1 Apr 14 14:40 mpathb
Additionally is has been observed that if the map is flushed with
multipath -f and then the backend storage removed a subsequent execution
of multipath -r results in the block device entry being recreated and
the map being loaded with failed paths
This problem appears to have been introduced with 0.5.0+git0.770e6d0d-1.
Testing with 0.5.0-7 from snapshots results in the expected behavior of
the devmap reload resulting in symlink entries to dm-X devices not being
changed to block device types, and new entries being created as symlinks
to dm-X devices and not as block devices
When tracing the multipath process I have been able to observe the
creation of the block device entries as the device files are missing
--
stat("/dev/mapper/mpatha", 0x7ffeae26abc0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
umask(0) = 022
mknod("/dev/mapper/mpatha", S_IFBLK|0660, makedev(254, 0)) = 0
umask(022) = 0
chown("/dev/mapper/mpatha", 0, 6) = 0
stat("/dev/mapper/mpathb", 0x7ffeae26abc0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
umask(0) = 022
mknod("/dev/mapper/mpathb", S_IFBLK|0660, makedev(254, 4)) = 0
umask(022) = 0
chown("/dev/mapper/mpathb", 0, 6) = 0
--
It has also been observed that if the maps are flushed and multipath is
re-run the resulting symlinks to dm-X devices are created in
/dev/mapper. Its only when mulitpath -r is executed that this behavior
is observed.
Please let me know if any additional details are needed or if there is
additional testing that can be done. We will continue working as well to
try and identify the specific commit which introduced this change in
behavior.
-- Package-specific info:
Contents of /etc/multipath.conf:
defaults {
polling_interval 10
max_fds 8192
user_friendly_names yes
}
blacklist {
wwid 3600508b1001c4327dc097cb0a82395d5
devnode "^(ram|raw|loop|fd|md|dm-|sr|scd|st)[0-9]*"
devnode "^hd[a-z][[0-9]*]"
device {
vendor HP
product 'LOGICAL_VOLUME'
}
}
devices {
device {
vendor "3PARdata"
product "VV"
path_grouping_policy group_by_prio
path_selector "queue-length 0"
path_checker tur
checker tur
features "0"
hardware_handler "1 alua"
prio alua
failback immediate
no_path_retry 18
rr_min_io 1
}
}
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/40 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages multipath-tools depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.29
ii kpartx 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-9
ii libaio1 0.3.110-2
ii libc6 2.22-5
ii libdevmapper1.02.1 2:1.02.120-1
ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-13
ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b4
ii libsystemd0 229-4
ii libudev1 229-4
ii lsb-base 9.20160110
ii sg3-utils-udev 1.42-2
ii udev 229-4
multipath-tools recommends no packages.
Versions of packages multipath-tools suggests:
ii multipath-tools-boot 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-9
-- no debconf informatio
