[PATCH 4.4.y] nvme: Fix managing degraded controllers

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Feb 13 07:50:13 PST 2018


On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 02:39:22PM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> commit 3e1e21c7bfcf upstream

That's not a commit, that is a merge point :(

> Upstream is a near rewrite of the async nvme probe that ultimately didn't
> even cleanly merge in 4.5. This patch is a much smaller change targeted
> to the regression introduced in 4.4.
> 
> If a controller is in a degraded mode that needs admin assistence to
> recover, we need to leave the controller running. We just want to disable
> namespace access without shuting the controller down.
> 
> Fixes: 3cf519b5a8d4("nvme: merge nvme_dev_start, nvme_dev_resume and nvme_async_probe")
> 
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 4.4.x
> Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch at intel.com>

Can I get a better commit id to match this up with?

thanks,

greg k-h



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