master - lvmlockd: fix handling of sanlock release error

[David Teigland]

Gitweb:        https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git;a=commitdiff;h=e7a56d5cd32654e4921e4c...
Commit:        e7a56d5cd32654e4921e4c03bc434efd0e24b1c0
Parent:        f6a54a50a0f5e1a06e1a4da6ca17f9e84773eb88
Author:        David Teigland 
AuthorDate:    Fri Nov 2 12:11:09 2018 -0500
Committer:     David Teigland 
CommitterDate: Fri Nov 2 12:11:09 2018 -0500

lvmlockd: fix handling of sanlock release error

When sanlock_release returns an error because of an i/o
timeout releasing the lease on disk, lvmlockd should just
consider the lock released.  sanlock will continue trying
to release the lease on disk after the original request
times out.
---
 daemons/lvmlockd/lvmlockd-sanlock.c |   18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/daemons/lvmlockd/lvmlockd-sanlock.c b/daemons/lvmlockd/lvmlockd-sanlock.c
index 892b446..9c950f3 100644
--- a/daemons/lvmlockd/lvmlockd-sanlock.c
+++ b/daemons/lvmlockd/lvmlockd-sanlock.c
@@ -2111,12 +2111,20 @@ int lm_unlock_sanlock(struct lockspace *ls, struct resource *r,
    if (rv < 0)
    	log_error("S %s R %s unlock_san release error %d", ls->name, r->name, rv);

-	if (rv == -EIO)
-		rv = -ELOCKIO;
-	else if (rv < 0)
-		rv = -ELMERR;
+	/*
+	 * sanlock may return an error here if it fails to release the lease on
+	 * disk because of an io timeout.  But, sanlock will continue trying to
+	 * release the lease after this call returns.  We shouldn't return an
+	 * error here which would result in lvmlockd-core keeping the lock
+	 * around.  By releasing the lock in lvmlockd-core at this point,
+	 * lvmlockd may send another acquire request to lvmlockd.  If sanlock
+	 * has not been able to release the previous instance of the lock yet,
+	 * then it will return an error for the new request.  But, acquiring a
+	 * new lock is able o fail gracefully, until sanlock is finally able to
+	 * release the old lock.
+	 */

-	return rv;
+	return 0;
 }

int lm_hosts_sanlock(struct lockspace *ls, int notify)