** Description changed:

  This is a bug in libvirt which has been fixed in upstream:
  https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/790
  
  > When using qemu-pr-helper with multipath devices, the target devices
  are not added to the domain's namespace as well as cgroups. As a result,
  the sg_persist calls from the guest VM fail.
  
  And the fix will be available in the next release (v11.6.0), but needs
  to be backported to 22.04 and 24.04 as those are on 8.0.0 and 10.0.0
  respectively.
  
  I'm working on patch for 22.04 followed by 24.04
  
  ---
  
  [ Impact ]
  
  When using qemu-pr-helper with multipath devices, the target devices are
  not added to the domain's namespace as well as cgroups. As a result, the
  sg_persist calls from the guest VM fail. These are mostly used by
  clustered applications like Windows Cluster.
  
  [ Test Plan ]
  
  These steps help to reproduce the issue with the scsi_debug kernel
  module. We create a fake multipath device with 4 target disks, without
  the fix we can only see the device mapper device in qemu-pr-helper's
  mount namespace.
  
  1. Get the scsi_debug kernel module and verify it is available.
  
     sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r)
  
     $ find /lib/modules/ -name "*scsi*" | grep debug
     /lib/modules/6.8.0-79-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.ko.zst
  
  2. Ensure multipath-tools in installed on the system and multipathd
  service is running.
  
     sudo apt install multipath-tools
     sudo systemctl status multipathd.service
  
  3. Create a multipath device with 4 target disks using scsi_debug
  
     sudo modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=100 num_tgts=1 vpd_use_hostno=0
  add_host=4 delay=20 max_luns=2 no_lun_0=1
  
     $ sudo multipath -ll
     mpatha (1Linux_scsi_debug_2001) dm-0 Linux,scsi_debug
     size=100M features='0' hwhandler='1 alua' wp=rw
     |-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
     | `- 2:0:0:1 sda 8:0  active ready running
     |-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=1 status=enabled
     | `- 5:0:0:1 sdd 8:48 active ready running
     |-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=50 status=active
     | `- 3:0:0:1 sdb 8:16 active ready running
     `-+- policy='service-time 0' prio=50 status=enabled
       `- 4:0:0:1 sdc 8:32 active ready running
  
     Notice that the name is 1Linux_scsi_debug_2001 and it has 4 disks,
  sda to sdd.
  
     We will use the following path of the multipath device mapper disk
  when creating the VM, this points to dm-0.
  
     /dev/disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-1Linux_scsi_debug_2001
  
     $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-1Linux_scsi_debug_2001
     … /dev/disk/by-id/dm-uuid-mpath-1Linux_scsi_debug_2001 -> ../../dm-0
  
  4. Create a new VM with reservations (starts qemu-pr-helper along with
  the qemu process for the VM). Use domain.xml from attachment:
  
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvirt/+bug/2117467/+attachment/5910958/+files/domain.xml
  
     Install libvirt first:
  
     sudo apt install libvirt-daemon libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients
     sudo systemctl start libvirtd
  
     Create the VM:
  
     sudo virsh define --file domain.xml --validate
     sudo virsh start libvirt-lp2117467
  
     Verify it is in running state.
  
     sudo virsh list --all
  
  5. Find the mount namespace of the VM, enter the namespace and verify
  the disks are added there.
  
     Find the PID of qemu-pr-helper or qemu-system-x86
  
     $ pgrep qemu-pr-helper
     734148
  
     Enter the mount namespace of this process to verify all the target
  disks are present. In this example, we don't see the sda to sdd as
  libvirt is not patched.
  
     $ sudo nsenter --target 734148 --mount bash
     root@bhavin-build:/# ls /dev/
     disk  dm-0  full  hugepages  mapper  mqueue  null  ptmx  pts  random  shm  
urandom  zero
  
-    When the patch is applied, we should be able to see the target
- devices as well.
+    When the patched version is installed and VM is re-created, we should
+ be able to see the target devices (sda to sdd) as well.
+ 
+    root@bhavin-build:/# ls /dev/
+    block  disk  dm-0  full  hugepages  mapper  mqueue  null  ptmx  pts  
random  sda  sdb  sdc  sdd  shm  urandom  zero
+    # notice the sda, sdb, sdc, and sdd got added after installing update. 
+ 
  
  [ Where problems could occur ]
  
  This is a bugfix backport, not able to think any potential problem as of
  now.

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  Multipath device's targets are not added to domain namespace/cgroup

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