On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 05:50:10PM +0100, Martin Wilck wrote:
> The ppoll() calls of the uxlsnr thread are vital for proper functioning of
> multipathd. If the uxlsnr thread can't open the socket or fails to call
> ppoll()
> for other reasons, quit the daemon. If we don't do that, multipathd may
> hang in a state where it can't be terminated any more, because the uxlsnr
> thread is responsible for handling all signals. This happens e.g. if
> systemd's multipathd.socket is running in and multipathd is started from
> outside systemd.
>
> 24f2844 "multipathd: fix signal blocking logic" has made this problem more
> severe. Before that patch, the signals weren't actually blocked in any thread.
> That's not to say 24f2844 was wrong. I still think it's correct, we just
> need this one on top.
>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarz...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwi...@suse.com>
> ---
> multipathd/uxlsnr.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/multipathd/uxlsnr.c b/multipathd/uxlsnr.c
> index cdafd82943e7..6f666663fc6f 100644
> --- a/multipathd/uxlsnr.c
> +++ b/multipathd/uxlsnr.c
> @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ void * uxsock_listen(uxsock_trigger_fn uxsock_trigger,
> void * trigger_data)
>
> if (ux_sock == -1) {
> condlog(1, "could not create uxsock: %d", errno);
> - return NULL;
> + exit_daemon();
> }
>
> pthread_cleanup_push(uxsock_cleanup, (void *)ux_sock);
> @@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ void * uxsock_listen(uxsock_trigger_fn uxsock_trigger,
> void * trigger_data)
> polls = (struct pollfd *)MALLOC((MIN_POLLS + 1) * sizeof(struct
> pollfd));
> if (!polls) {
> condlog(0, "uxsock: failed to allocate poll fds");
> - return NULL;
> + exit_daemon();
> }
> sigfillset(&mask);
> sigdelset(&mask, SIGINT);
> @@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ void * uxsock_listen(uxsock_trigger_fn uxsock_trigger,
> void * trigger_data)
>
> /* something went badly wrong! */
> condlog(0, "uxsock: poll failed with %d", errno);
> + exit_daemon();
> break;
> }
>
> --
> 2.16.1
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