Benjamin Marzinski a48f6b82c5 dm mpath: don't call dm_get_device in multipath_message ...

When mutipath_message is called with an action and a device, it needs to
find the pgpath that matches that device. dm_get_device() is not the
right function for this. dm_get_device() will look for a table_device
matching the requested path in use by either the live or inactive table.
If it doesn't find the device, dm_get_device() will open it and add it
to the table. Means that multipath_message will accept any block device,
add it to the table if not present, and then look through the pgpaths
to see if it finds a match. Afterwards it will remove the device if it
was not previously in the table devices list.

This is the only function that can modify the device list of a table
besides the constructors and destructors, and it can only do this when
it was passed an invalid message.  Instead, multipath_message() should
call dm_devt_from_path() to get the device dev_t, and match that against
its pgpaths.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>

2024-07-10 13:10:06 +02:00

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