[PATCH] nvme: check ctrl.tagset before start ns scan
jianchao.wang
jianchao.w.wang at oracle.com
Wed Jan 3 20:01:54 PST 2018
Hi sagi
Many thanks for your kindly response.
On 01/03/2018 05:37 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> Hi Jianchao,
>
>> ctrl.tagset maybe NULL due to failure of io queue setup or blk-mq
>> tagset allocation in nvme_reset_work. Then panic would come up.
>> To fix this, just add ctrl.tagset check in nvme_scan_work.
>
> This came up before (and forgotten...) I think we should not
> have state indicators other than ctrl->state.
>
> How about instead we add a new state NVME_CTRL_ADMIN_LIVE when we have
> no I/O queues.
>
Yes, that's a good idea that add a new state NMVE_CTRL_ADMIN_LIVE to indicate
only the admin queue live. On the other hand, add a sanity checking that whether
ctrl->tagset is NULL is also necessary. :)
Thanks
Jianchao
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