[PATCH] nvme-multipath: fix double initialization of ANA state

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Mon May 17 05:48:01 PDT 2021


On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:08:25PM +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> Hello Christoph,
> 
> On Wed, 2021-05-12 at 16:53 +0200, Martin Wilck wrote:
> > On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 15:48 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > nvme_init_identify and thus nvme_mpath_init can be called multiple
> > > times and thus must not overwrite potentially initialized or in-use
> > > fields.  Split out a helper for the basic initialization when the
> > > controller is initialized and make sure the init_identify path does
> > > not blindly change in-use data structures.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 0d0b660f214d ("nvme: add ANA support")
> > > Reported-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> > 
> > Thank you. I'll prepare another test kernel for our partner.
> 
> Our partner reported a crash during NVMe controller initialization with
> the kernel I built with this patch applied. I'm still looking at the
> dump, and it's not impossible that I made a mistake backporting your
> patch. But I thought I should inform you anyway.

It does look weird for sure.  Did you backport
"nvmet: use new ana_log_size instead the old one" as well?  If not please
pick it up.



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