[PATCH] nvme: reset retires after path failover

[Keith Busch]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 04:35:03PM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> When we do a path failover we should also reset the retry counter to 0
> so we're not accidently failing I/O after a path failover.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn at suse.de>
> ---
>  drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> index 1ef11ca0fc5e..f1d8b239b7b6 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> @@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ static void nvme_failover_req(struct request *req)
>  	blk_mq_end_request(req, 0);
>  
>  	nvme_reset_ctrl(ns->ctrl);
> +	nvme_req(req)->retries = 0;
>  	kblockd_schedule_work(&ns->head->requeue_work);
>  }

Won't this make it possible to retry indefinitely? We've removed the retry
time limit, so the only thing preventing inifinite retries on retryable
errors is the max retry limit.