[PATCHv2] nvme: disable namespaces with unsupported metadata

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Mon Nov 29 08:07:12 PST 2021


The only fabrics target that supports metadata is RDMA and usable only
if it is 8B per block, and formatted for protection information. If an
rdma target were to export a namespace with a different format (ex:
4k+64B), the driver will not be able to submit valid read/write commands
for that namespace.

Suppress setting the metadata feature in the namespace so that the
gendisk capacity will be set to 0. This will prevent read/write access.

Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy at nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch at kernel.org>
---
v1->v2: changelog and comment updates

 drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index 4b5de8f5435a..47a941207058 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -1740,7 +1740,18 @@ static int nvme_configure_metadata(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct nvme_id_ns *id)
 		 */
 		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!(id->flbas & NVME_NS_FLBAS_META_EXT)))
 			return -EINVAL;
-		if (ctrl->max_integrity_segments)
+
+		/*
+		 * The current fabrics transport drivers support namespace
+		 * metadata formats only if nvme_ns_has_pi() returns true.
+		 * Suppress setting the feature for all other formats so the
+		 * namespace will have a 0 capacity and not be usable through
+		 * the block stack.
+		 *
+		 * Note, this check will need to be modified if any drivers
+		 * gain the ability to use other metadata formats.
+		 */
+		if (ctrl->max_integrity_segments && nvme_ns_has_pi(ns))
 			ns->features |=
 				(NVME_NS_METADATA_SUPPORTED | NVME_NS_EXT_LBAS);
 	} else {
-- 
2.25.4




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