Re: [PATCH] nvme: add error message on mismatching controller ids

[Chaitanya Kulkarni <Chaitanya.Kulkarni@wdc.com>]

Looks good to me, just one nit with the commit message
and can be applied at the time of applying patch.

Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>

On 11/21/2019 09:58 AM, James Smart wrote:
> We've seen a few devices that return different controller
> id's to the Fabric Connect command vs the Identify(controller)
> command. It's currently hard to identify this failure by
> existing error messages. It comes across as a (re)connect
> attempt in the transport that fails with a -22 (-EINVAL)
> status. The issue is compounded by older kernels not having
> the controller id check or had the identify command overwrite
> the fabrics controller id value before it checked. Both resulted
> in cases where the devices appeared fine until more recent kernels.
>
> Clarify the reject by adding an error message on controller
> id mismatches.

When I applied this patch found that there is still some room
so we can get to the 72 columns (unless it is done with some purpose)
for the commit message, I've just adjusted the lines without changing 
any description :-

We've seen a few devices that return different controller id's to the
Fabric Connect command vs the Identify(controller) command. It's
currently hard to identify this failure by existing error messages.
It comes across as a (re)connect attempt in the transport that fails
with a -22 (-EINVAL) status. The issue is compounded by older kernels
not having the controller id check or had the identify command
overwrite the fabrics controller id value before it checked. Both
resulted in cases where the devices appeared fine until more recent
kernels.

Clarify the reject by adding an error message on controller id
mismatches.

>
> Signed-off-by: James Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> index 9696404a6182..c272afb084d1 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> @@ -2824,6 +2824,10 @@ int nvme_init_identify(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
>   		 * admin connect
>   		 */
>   		if (ctrl->cntlid != le16_to_cpu(id->cntlid)) {
> +			dev_err(ctrl->device,
> +				"Mismatching cntlid: Connect %u vs Identify "
> +				"%u, rejecting\n",
> +				ctrl->cntlid, le16_to_cpu(id->cntlid));
>   			ret = -EINVAL;
>   			goto out_free;
>   		}
>


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