When the tur checker code determines that a hanging TUR thread
couldn't be cancelled, rather than simply returning, reallocate
the checker context and start a new thread. This will leak some
memory if the hanging thread never wakes up again, but well, in
that highly unlikely case we're leaking threads anyway.

Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwi...@suse.com>
---
 libmultipath/checkers/tur.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libmultipath/checkers/tur.c b/libmultipath/checkers/tur.c
index 41210892..a6c88eb2 100644
--- a/libmultipath/checkers/tur.c
+++ b/libmultipath/checkers/tur.c
@@ -349,11 +349,29 @@ int libcheck_check(struct checker * c)
                }
        } else {
                if (uatomic_read(&ct->holders) > 1) {
-                       /* The thread has been cancelled but hasn't
-                        * quit. exit with timeout. */
+                       /*
+                        * The thread has been cancelled but hasn't quit.
+                        * We have to prevent it from interfering with the new
+                        * thread. We create a new context and leave the old
+                        * one with the stale thread, hoping it will clean up
+                        * eventually.
+                        */
                        condlog(3, "%d:%d : tur thread not responding",
                                major(ct->devt), minor(ct->devt));
-                       return PATH_TIMEOUT;
+
+                       /*
+                        * libcheck_init will replace c->context.
+                        * It fails only in OOM situations. In this case, return
+                        * PATH_UNCHECKED to avoid prematurely failing the path.
+                        */
+                       if (libcheck_init(c) != 0)
+                               return PATH_UNCHECKED;
+
+                       if (!uatomic_sub_return(&ct->holders, 1))
+                               /* It did terminate, eventually */
+                               cleanup_context(ct);
+
+                       ct = c->context;
                }
                /* Start new TUR checker */
                pthread_mutex_lock(&ct->lock);
-- 
2.19.1

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