[PATCH v16 6/9] nvmet-passthru: Add passthru code to process commands

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Sun Jul 26 11:41:04 EDT 2020


On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:33:51PM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:25:17AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> > +	/*
> > +	 * The passthru NVMe driver may have a limit on the number of segments
> > +	 * which depends on the host's memory fragementation. To solve this,
> > +	 * ensure mdts is limitted to the pages equal to the number of
> 
>                           limited

I've fixed this when applying.

> > +	/* don't support fuse commands */
> > +	id->fuses = 0;
> 
> If a host were to set a fuse, the target should return an Invalid Field
> error. Just to future-proof, rejecting commands with any flags set
> (other than SGL, which you handled in patch 1/9) is probably what should
> happen, like:
> 
> > +u16 nvmet_parse_passthru_io_cmd(struct nvmet_req *req)
> > +{
> 
> 	if (req->cmd->common.flags & ~NVME_CMD_SGL_ALL)
> 		return NVME_SC_INVALID_FIELD;
> 
> Or maybe we could obviate the need for 1/9 with something like:
> 
> 	req->cmd->common.flags &= ~NVME_CMD_SGL_ALL;
> 	if (req->cmd->common.flags)
> 		return NVME_SC_INVALID_FIELD;

We'll also need this for the admin commands, but otherwise this sounds
like a good idea.  For now I've applied the series as-is, but an
incremental patch for this would be nice.



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