[PATCHv2] nvme: always initialize known command effects
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Mon Jan 23 08:35:36 PST 2023
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 09:29:35AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 03:54:31PM +0530, Kanchan Joshi wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 08:41:28AM -0800, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > + if (!ctrl->effects) {
> > > + ctrl->effects = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctrl->effects), GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> > ctrl->effects is not getting freed if controller does not support the
> > commands-supported-and-effects log page?
>
> Right. If the controller doesn't support it, the driver will make one up
> with some sane defaults. The point of this patch is that we don't want
> to re-construct the defaults for each passthrough command so we need to
> store the defaults somewhere.
But it never ends up beeing freed even when the controller is torn
down as it never gets added to ctrl->cels.
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