[PATCH] nvme: Skip checking heads without namespaces

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue Mar 20 01:48:02 PDT 2018


On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 10:53:50AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> If a task is holding a reference to a namespace on a removed controller,
> the head will not be released. If the same controller is added again
> later, its namespaces may not be successfully added. Instead, the user
> will see kernel message "Duplicate IDs for nsid <X>".
> 
> This patch fixes that by skipping heads that don't have namespaces when
> considering if a new namespace is safe to add.

Delayed reference strike once again, sigh.

Looks fine:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>



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