found &= ~DEVICE_FOUND_UDEV;
if (state == DEVICE_PLUGGED)
state = DEVICE_TENTATIVE;
+
+ /* Also check the validity of the device syspath. Without this check, if the device was
+ * removed while switching root, it would never go to inactive state, as both Device.found
+ * and Device.enumerated_found do not have the DEVICE_FOUND_UDEV flag, so device_catchup() in
+ * device_update_found_one() does nothing in most cases. See issue #25106. Note that the
+ * syspath field is only serialized when systemd is sufficiently new and the device has been
+ * already processed by udevd. */
+ if (d->deserialized_sysfs) {
+ _cleanup_(sd_device_unrefp) sd_device *dev = NULL;
+
+ if (sd_device_new_from_syspath(&dev, d->deserialized_sysfs) < 0)
+ state = DEVICE_DEAD;
+ }
}
if (d->found == found && d->state == state)