[PATCH v3] nvme: fix identify error status silent ignore

[Niklas Cassel]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:46:29AM -0700, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> Patch 59c7c3caaaf8 intended to only silently ignore
> non retry-able errors (DNR bit set) such that we can still
> identify misbehaving controllers, and in the other hand
> propagate retry-able errors (DNR bit cleared) so we don't
> wrongly abandon a namespace just because it happens to be
> temporarily inaccessible.
> 
> The goal remains the same as the original commit where this
> was introduced but unfortunately had the logic backwards.
> 
> Fixes: 59c7c3caaaf8 ("nvme: fix possible hang when ns
> scanning fails during error recovery")
> Reported-by: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me>
> ---
> Changes from v2:
> - added comment on non-trivial code
> 
> Changes from v1:
> - remove paranthesis
> 
>  drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> index 2afed32d3892..92dc2327bf3a 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> @@ -1128,9 +1128,15 @@ static int nvme_identify_ns_descs(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, unsigned nsid,
>  			"Identify Descriptors failed (%d)\n", status);
>  		 /*
>  		  * Don't treat an error as fatal, as we potentially already
> -		  * have a NGUID or EUI-64.
> +		  * have a NGUID or EUI-64. If we failed with DNR set, we want
> +		  * to silently ignore the error as we can still identify
> +		  * the device, but if the status has DNR set, we want
> +		  * to propogate the error back specifically for the disk

s/propogate/propagate/

Perhaps this minor nit could be fixed up while applying?


Kind regards,
Niklas

> +		  * revalidation flow to make sure we don't abandon the
> +		  * device just because of a temporal retry-able error (such
> +		  * as path of transport errors).
>  		  */
> -		if (status > 0 && !(status & NVME_SC_DNR))
> +		if (status > 0 && status & NVME_SC_DNR)
>  			status = 0;
>  		goto free_data;
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 
> 
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