dm mpath: allow table load with no priority groups

This patch adjusts the multipath target to allow a table with both 0
priority groups and 0 for the initial priority group number.

If any mpath device is held open when all paths in the last priority
group have failed, userspace multipathd will attempt to reload the
associated DM table to reflect the fact that the device no longer has
any priority groups.  But the reload attempt always failed because the
multipath target did not allow 0 priority groups.

All multipath target messages related to priority group (enable_group,
disable_group, switch_group) will handle a priority group of 0 (will
cause error).

When reloading a multipath table with 0 priority groups, userspace
multipathd must be updated to specify an initial priority group number
of 0 (rather than 1).

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Cc: Babu Moger <babu.moger@lsi.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index 52f0de394632..a550a057d991 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -844,8 +844,8 @@ static int multipath_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc,
 {
 	/* target parameters */
 	static struct param _params[] = {
-		{1, 1024, "invalid number of priority groups"},
-		{1, 1024, "invalid initial priority group number"},
+		{0, 1024, "invalid number of priority groups"},
+		{0, 1024, "invalid initial priority group number"},
 	};
 
 	int r;
@@ -879,6 +879,13 @@ static int multipath_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc,
 	if (r)
 		goto bad;
 
+	if ((!m->nr_priority_groups && next_pg_num) ||
+	    (m->nr_priority_groups && !next_pg_num)) {
+		ti->error = "invalid initial priority group";
+		r = -EINVAL;
+		goto bad;
+	}
+
 	/* parse the priority groups */
 	while (as.argc) {
 		struct priority_group *pg;
@@ -1415,7 +1422,7 @@ static int multipath_status(struct dm_target *ti, status_type_t type,
 	else if (m->current_pg)
 		pg_num = m->current_pg->pg_num;
 	else
-			pg_num = 1;
+		pg_num = (m->nr_priority_groups ? 1 : 0);
 
 	DMEMIT("%u ", pg_num);