[PATCH v2] nvme: check if the namespace supports metadata in nvme_map_user_request()

Keith Busch kbusch at kernel.org
Wed Aug 28 07:44:59 PDT 2024


On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 01:23:27PM +0000, Puranjay Mohan wrote:
> @@ -119,9 +120,13 @@ static int nvme_map_user_request(struct request *req, u64 ubuffer,
>  	struct request_queue *q = req->q;
>  	struct nvme_ns *ns = q->queuedata;
>  	struct block_device *bdev = ns ? ns->disk->part0 : NULL;
> +	bool has_metadata = bdev && meta_buffer && meta_len;

If this is an admin command, then bdev is NULL, so "has_metadata" is
false.

>  	struct bio *bio = NULL;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	if (has_metadata && !blk_get_integrity(bdev->bd_disk))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +

Since has_metadata is false, we continue on to process this admin
command, but ignore the user's metadata settings. Do we want to return
error there too?



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