[PATCH 3/3] nvme: check that EUI/GUID/UUID are globally unique
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Thu Feb 24 08:51:38 PST 2022
On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 07:43:04AM -0800, Keith Busch wrote:
> It looks like a race condition exists here such that two namespaces with
> duplicate IDs in different subsystems being concurrently added may not
> see the duplicate.
Yes. But do we care? This is a sanity check. The alternative would be
to hold nvme_subsystems_lock for the whole ns_head probing, which is
a little annoying.
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