That change could more be a source of what you describe. It contains a huge set of backports in regard to ignore "local non-mpath devices" * Cherry-picked patches to ignore local non-mpath devices - 0001-multipath-add-checker_timeout-default-config-option.patch - 0002-Make-params-variable-local.patch - 0003-libmultipath-Fix-possible-string-overflow.patch - 0004-Update-hwtable-factorization.patch - 0005-Fixup-strip-trailing-whitespaces-for-getuid-return-v.patch - 0006-Remove-sysfs_attr-cache.patch - 0007-Move-setup_thread_attr-to-uevent.c.patch - 0008-Use-lists-for-uevent-processing.patch - 0009-Start-uevent-service-handler-from-main-thread.patch - 0010-libmultipath-rework-sysfs-handling.patch - 0011-Rework-sysfs-device-handling-in-multipathd.patch - 0012-Only-check-offline-status-for-SCSI-devices.patch - 0013-Check-for-offline-path-in-get_prio.patch - 0014-libmultipath-Remove-duplicate-calls-to-path_offline.patch - 0015-Update-dev_loss_tmo-for-no_path_retry.patch - 0016-Reload-map-for-device-read-only-setting-changes.patch - 0017-multipath-get-right-sysfs-value-for-checker_timeout.patch - 0018-multipath-handle-offlined-paths.patch - 0019-multipath-fix-scsi-timeout-code.patch - 0020-multipath-make-tgt_node_name-work-for-iscsi-devices.patch - 0021-multipath-cleanup-dev_loss_tmo-issues.patch - 0022-Fix-for-setting-0-to-fast_io_fail.patch - 0023-Fix-fast_io_fail-capping.patch - 0024-multipath-enable-getting-uevents-through-libudev.patch - 0025-Use-devpath-as-argument-for-sysfs-functions.patch - 0026-multipathd-remove-references-to-sysfs_device.patch - 0027-multipathd-use-struct-path-as-argument-for-event-pro.patch - 0028-Add-global-udev-reference-pointer-to-config.patch - 0029-Use-udev-enumeration-during-discovery.patch - 0030-use-struct-udev_device-during-discovery.patch - 0031-More-debugging-output-when-synchronizing-path-states.patch - 0032-Use-struct-udev_device-instead-of-sysdev.patch - 0033-discovery-Fixup-cciss-discovery.patch - 0035-Use-udev-devices-during-discovery.patch - 0036-Remove-all-references-to-hand-craftes-sysfs-code.patch - 0037-multipath-libudev-cleanup-and-bugfixes.patch - 0038-multipath-check-if-a-device-belongs-to-multipath.patch - 0039-multipath-and-wwids_file-multipath.conf-option.patch - 0040-multipath-Check-blacklists-as-soon-as-possible.patch - 0041-add-wwids-file-cleanup-options.patch - 0042-add-find_multipaths-option.patch Your devices are reported as: mpath2 (36742b0f0000075500000000000002de4) dm-2 NFINIDAT,InfiniBox size=954M features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=rw `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=-1 status=active `- 2:0:0:3 sdd 8:48 active undef running Maybe there is a false positive in those fixes. To continue on this we need very exact description on your device type, storage backend, and anything else that defines your disk setup in HW&SW. Then depending on availability of such devices or at least a similar setup a reproduction can be tried - if not possible one might suggest different things to be tested on your end, but that is way slower and more error prone.