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<!-- This form is for bug reports and feature requests ONLY! If you're looking for help check and the . --Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST?: /kind bug What happened: A Pod is run with local volume mounted in block mode. When that pod is deleted, the tear down process fails because device unmap fails. The device path appears to be empty, causing the unmap to fail. What you expected to happen: The teardown should have succeeded How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible): Create a pod with a PV for local volume in block mode. Delete the pod. Look at kubelet log files on the minion node to observe the error messages. Anything else we need to know?: Log messages: Feb 18 09:21:43 kubernetes-minion-group-crj1 kubelet[1510]: E0218 09:21:43. 1510 ] Operation for """ ("-148c-11e8-b315-")" failed. No retries permitted until 2018-02-18 09:21:44. +0000 UTC m=+. (durationBeforeRetry 500ms). Error: "UnmapVolume.UnmapDevice on global map path failed for volume "blkdata" (UniqueName: "") pod "-148c-11e8-b315-" (UID: "-148c-11e8-b315-") : Failed to unmap device from map path. mapPath is empty" Feb 18 09:21:43 kubernetes-minion-group-crj1 kubelet[1510]: I0218 09:21:43. 1510 ] operationExecutor.UnmountVolume started for volume "blkdata" (UniqueName: "") pod "-148c-11e8-b315-" (UID: "-148c-11e8-b315-") Environment: Kubernetes version (use ): 1.10+ Cloud provider or hardware configuration: GCE OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): "Container-Optimized OS from Google" Kernel (e.g. ): Linux 4.4.86+ Install tools: Others:
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This error is returned in this . It same that we set the global mount path to only if the volume plugin is attachable(see ). However, local volume plugin is not attachable, so will be empty and the operation will fail. I think we should extract the operation from the block, and execute this operation just before we try to map the device to global map path, then this global map path can be cached in for both attachable and non attachable volume plugins. Any comments? If not, I can help to fix this.
Thank you for the investigation. We've discussed this problem by offline yesterday. I proposed same fix which you mentioned above, then tested the fix works correctly with local volume plugin. I'll push a PR soon.
The device path appears to be empty, causing the unmap to fail. Please note, which was stored in is empty. device path isn't related to this problem.
Sorry about that, this is a typo, what I mean is global mount path.
No, no. My above comment is just note for the section. Your investigation is correct.

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text: return volumeToMount.GenerateError("MapVolume failed", fmt.Errorf("Device path of the volume is empty")) } } <ins> // Update actual state of world to reflect volume is globally mounted markDeviceMappedErr := actualStateOfWorld.MarkDeviceAsMounted( volumeToMount.VolumeName, devicePath, globalMapPath) if markDeviceMappedErr != nil { // On failure, return error. Caller will log and retry. return volumeToMount.GenerateError("MapVolume.MarkDeviceAsMounted failed", markDeviceMappedErr) } </ins> mapErr = og.blkUtil.MapDevice(devicePath, globalMapPath, string(volumeToMount.Pod.UID)) if mapErr != nil {