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Bug 612064 - [6.0] by-path for scsi tape device is not created
Summary: [6.0] by-path for scsi tape device is not created
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: udev
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Harald Hoyer
QA Contact: Jan Ščotka
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-07-07 08:39 UTC by Tomas Smetana
Modified: 2018-10-27 13:35 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: udev-147-2.21.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-11-10 21:50:31 UTC
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Description Tomas Smetana 2010-07-07 08:39:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
by-path for scsi tape device is not created.

# ls -Rl /dev/tape/
/dev/tape/:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jun 29 15:10 by-id

/dev/tape/by-id:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 29 15:10 scsi-1HP_C7438A_HU10637814-nst -> ../../nst0

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
udev-147-2.18.el6

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot the system that has a scsi tape device.
2. ls /dev/tape/
  
Actual results:
No by-path for scsi tape device is created.

Expected results:
There exist by-path symlinks to the tape devices.

Additional info:

Adding the following rules to 50-udev.rules seems to solve the problem:
KERNEL=="nst[0-9]", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_tape", ENV{ID_PATH}=="", IMPORT{program}="/lib/udev/path_id %p"
KERNEL=="nst[0-9]", SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_tape", ENV{ID_PATH}=="?*", SYMLINK+="tape/by-path/$env{ID_PATH}"
Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2010-07-07 13:17:12 UTC 
Proposed fix:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff;h=847b4f84c671e98f29f22d8e3e0d70a231d71a7b
Comment 2 Moritoshi Oshiro 2010-07-08 00:57:24 UTC 
Hi Harald,

(In reply to comment #1)
> Proposed fix:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff;h=847b4f84c671e98f29f22d8e3e0d70a231d71a7b    

From FJ:
---
I think you need one more change to fix the issue completely.  With the original rules (or even with the patch above,) both st*[0-9] and nst*[0-9] will try to make the same file (same file name) and, as a result, the latter will fail.  That's why my proposal fix described in "Additional Field:" adds "-nst" to the end of SYMLINK line, avoiding the file name conflict.

 KERNEL=="nst*[0-9]", ENV{ID_PATH}=="?*", SYMLINK+="tape/by-path/$env{ID_PATH}-nst"
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Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2010-07-08 09:48:11 UTC 
ok, additional patch:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commitdiff;h=0c7377880974e6eadac7a3ae9e35d339546dde0d
Comment 7 Jan Ščotka 2010-09-07 13:06:30 UTC 
verified on machine with scsi tape:
[root@dhcp-2-205 ~]# ls -Rl /dev/tape/
/dev/tape/:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 80 Sep  1 11:07 by-id
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 80 Sep  1 11:07 by-path

/dev/tape/by-id:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Sep  1 11:07 scsi-1HP_C7438A_HU10627M0G -> ../../st0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Sep  1 11:07 scsi-1HP_C7438A_HU10627M0G-nst -> ../../nst0

/dev/tape/by-path:
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  9 Sep  1 11:07 pci-0000:07:05.0-scsi-0:0:3:0 -> ../../st0
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Sep  1 11:07 pci-0000:07:05.0-scsi-0:0:3:0-nst -> ../../nst0

what seems like proper output
PASS
Comment 8 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-10 21:50:31 UTC 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.
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