[PATCH] nvme-tcp: look up host_iface in the current netns

Geliang Tang geliang at kernel.org
Sat Jul 25 19:46:49 PDT 2026


From: Geliang Tang <tanggeliang at kylinos.cn>

nvme_tcp_alloc_ctrl() looks opts->host_iface up in &init_net, the boot-time
netns. When called from any other netns - e.g. the selftest's ns2, where
ns2eth1 actually lives - the lookup misses and the controller setup fails
with "invalid interface passed":

 nvmet: adding nsid 1 to subsystem nqn.2014-08.org.nvmexpress.mptcpdev
 nvmet_tcp: enabling port 24660 (0.0.0.0:24099)
 # nvme discover -a 10.1.1.1 --tos=0x10 --host-iface=ns2eth1
 nvme_tcp: invalid interface passed: ns2eth1
 # failed to add controller, error invalid interface

Look the device up in current->nsproxy->net_ns instead so the check sees
the calling task's netns.

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <tanggeliang at kylinos.cn>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
index ba5c7b3e2a7c..c89d84ccce1a 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
@@ -2960,7 +2960,8 @@ static struct nvme_tcp_ctrl *nvme_tcp_alloc_ctrl(struct device *dev,
 	}
 
 	if (opts->mask & NVMF_OPT_HOST_IFACE) {
-		if (!__dev_get_by_name(&init_net, opts->host_iface)) {
+		if (!__dev_get_by_name(current->nsproxy->net_ns,
+				       opts->host_iface)) {
 			pr_err("invalid interface passed: %s\n",
 			       opts->host_iface);
 			ret = -ENODEV;
-- 
2.53.0




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