[PATCH 1/1] nvme-fc: Do not cancel requests in io target before it is initialized

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Wed Jun 10 04:35:23 PDT 2026


On 5/28/26 11:27, Maurizio Lombardi wrote:
> From: Mohamed Khalfella <mkhalfella at purestorage.com>
> 
> A new nvme-fc controller in CONNECTING state sees admin request timeout
> schedules ctrl->ioerr_work to abort inflight requests. This ends up
> calling __nvme_fc_abort_outstanding_ios() which aborts requests in both
> admin and io tagsets. In case fc_ctrl->tag_set was not initialized we
> see the warning below. This is because ctrl.queue_count is initialized
> early in nvme_fc_alloc_ctrl().
> 
> nvme nvme0: NVME-FC{0}: starting error recovery Connectivity Loss
> INFO: trying to register non-static key.
> The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
> lpfc 0000:ab:00.0: queue 0 connect admin queue failed (-6).
> you didn't initialize this object before use?
> turning off the locking correctness validator.
> Workqueue: nvme-reset-wq nvme_fc_ctrl_ioerr_work [nvme_fc]
> Call Trace:
>   <TASK>
>   dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x80
>   register_lock_class+0x567/0x580
>   __lock_acquire+0x330/0xb90
>   lock_acquire.part.0+0xad/0x210
>   blk_mq_tagset_busy_iter+0xf9/0xc00
>   __nvme_fc_abort_outstanding_ios+0x23f/0x320 [nvme_fc]
>   nvme_fc_ctrl_ioerr_work+0x172/0x210 [nvme_fc]
>   process_one_work+0x82c/0x1450
>   worker_thread+0x5ee/0xfd0
>   kthread+0x3a0/0x750
>   ret_from_fork+0x439/0x670
>   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
>   </TASK>
> 
> Update the check in __nvme_fc_abort_outstanding_ios() confirm that io
> tagset was created before iterating over busy requests. Also make sure
> to cancel ctrl->ioerr_work before removing io tagset.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Randy Jennings <randyj at purestorage.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mohamed Khalfella <mkhalfella at purestorage.com>
> Signed-off-by: James Smart <jsmart833426 at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard at redhat.com>
> ---
>   drivers/nvme/host/fc.c | 7 ++++++-
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Would be nice to have a 'Fixes' tag.
Otherwise:

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at kernel.org>

Cheers,

Hannes
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