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From: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Brunberg <ingo_brunberg@web.de>,
	Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: Namepace identification descriptor list is optional
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 01:22:56 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191202162256.GA21631@redsun51.ssa.fujisawa.hgst.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191202161545.GA7434@lst.de>

On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 05:15:45PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 12:56:11AM +0900, Keith Busch wrote:
> > Despite NVM Express specification 1.3 requires a controller claiming to
> > be 1.3 or higher implement Identify CNS 03h (Namespace Identification
> > Descriptor list), the driver doesn't really need this identification in
> > order to use a namespace. The code had already documented in comments
> > that we're not to consider an error to this command.
> > 
> > Return success if the controller provided any response to an
> > namespace identification descriptors command.
> > 
> > Fixes: 538af88ea7d9de24 ("nvme: make nvme_report_ns_ids propagate error back")
> > Reported-by: Ingo Brunberg <ingo_brunberg@web.de>
> 
> Why would we ignore the error?  Do you have a buggy controller messing
> this up?

I don't have such a controller, but many apparently do. The regression
was reported here:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2019-December/028223.html

And of course it's the SMI controller ...

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-02 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-02 15:56 [PATCH] nvme: Namepace identification descriptor list is optional Keith Busch
2019-12-02 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-12-02 16:22   ` Keith Busch [this message]
2019-12-02 16:27     ` Nadolski, Edmund
2019-12-02 16:29       ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-12-02 16:45         ` Nadolski, Edmund
2019-12-02 16:49         ` Keith Busch
2019-12-02 17:34           ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-12-02 21:21             ` Keith Busch
2020-07-10  8:22 ` Ingo Brunberg
2020-07-22 23:23   ` Sagi Grimberg
2020-07-23  1:23     ` Ingo Brunberg
2020-07-28 11:08       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-28 14:41         ` Ingo Brunberg
2020-07-28 16:01           ` Sagi Grimberg
     [not found] <d163890a-a469-e71c-45b7-f63e1efee04e@intel.com>
2020-07-12  9:31 ` Ingo Brunberg
2020-07-12 17:03   ` Rajashekar, Revanth
2020-07-14 15:21   ` Keith Busch

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