3.11. device-mapper-multipath

Bug Fix

BZ#1065229

Previously, if the user created duplicate aliases, or aliases that matched the user_friendly names, those devices switched their paths, and thus caused multipath device path corruption. The underlying code has been fixed, and the multipath utility now refuses to reload a device with an existing duplicate alias. In addition, multipath now issues a warning message on potentially conflicting aliases. As a result, multipath no longer corrupts data if users name two devices identically.

Bug Fixes

BZ#1092603

A bug in Device Mapper Multipath (DM-Multipath) allowed the main multipathd thread to free memory that was still being used by other multipathd threads during system shutdown. Consequently, the multipathd daemon terminated unexpectedly due to use-after-free memory corruption. This update avoids this problem by ensuring that memory being used by multipathd threads is freed in the final cleanup upon the exit of multipathd.

BZ#1039935

DM-Multipath allowed configurations with duplicate name aliases mapped to different World Wide Identifiers (WWIDs). However, such configurations could result in path corruption when a device was reloaded and used the paths of another device. This update ensures that DM-Multipath refuses to reload a device if its alias matches another device. DM-Multipath now also warns the user on potentially conflicting aliases.

BZ#1086949

The multipathd daemon could attempt to reconfigure before it was completely set up after receiving the SIGHUP signal on startup. As a consequence, multipathd terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. With this update, multipathd now blocks the SIGHUP signal until it has completed its initialization.