[PATCH 7/7] nvme-tcp: Add warning on state change failure at nvme_tcp_setup_ctrl

[Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com>]

The transition to LIVE state should not fail in case of a new controller.
Moving to DELETING state before nvme_tcp_create_ctrl() allocates all the
resources may leads to NULL dereference at teardown flow (e.g., IO tagset,
admin_q, connect_q).

Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
index 2fc2687..7aa2adc 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
@@ -1931,8 +1931,13 @@ static int nvme_tcp_setup_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, bool new)
 	}
 
 	if (!nvme_change_ctrl_state(ctrl, NVME_CTRL_LIVE)) {
-		/* state change failure is ok if we're in DELETING state */
+		/*
+		 * state change failure is ok if we're in DELETING state,
+		 * unless we're during creation of a new controller to
+		 * avoid races with teardown flow.
+		 */
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(ctrl->state != NVME_CTRL_DELETING);
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(new);
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 		goto destroy_io;
 	}
-- 
1.8.3.1


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