nvme-tcp: invalid h2cdata pdus in response to r2t

Sagi Grimberg sagi at grimberg.me
Thu Feb 24 01:22:21 PST 2022


> As recently as 5.16.10, when a target issues an r2t, the host driver
> responds with an h2c pdu of whatever length was requested. If the
> requested r2t length exceeds MAXH2CDATA, the response causes a fatal
> transport error.
> 
> In reviewing the code, the driver does not appear to generate multiple
> h2c pdus in response to an R2T. We're a bit confused because commit
> 1d3ef9c3a39e seems to indicate that the code behaves otherwise.

Yes

> 
> I can see there was some discussion and work on this back in November.
> Is there any plan to incorporate the fix? If so, is this likely to
> make its way into LTS kernels?

We'll need to see if it applies cleanly... If you have specific desire
you can send a backport to a specific LTS to stable kernels.



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