[PATCH] nvme-pci: add missing condition check for existence of mapped data
Leon Romanovsky
leon at kernel.org
Tue Jul 30 10:39:20 PDT 2024
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 07:21:11PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 11:09:04AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > > + if (blk_rq_nr_phys_segments(req))
> > > + nvme_unmap_data(dev, req);
> >
> > This is already applied, but it is kind of strange. We get here only if
> > metadata mapping fails. Is there actually a command that has metadata
> > without data?
>
> Well, passthrough can always set metadata to map without data even
> if there is no NVMe defined command that works that way, so we should
> handle the error.
>
> But I suspect this is due to Leon's dma-mapping work, and it probably
> points to a bug in that :)
Yeah, something like that. I had a bug in my code and saw this
asymmetry while reviewed all paths which lead to nvme_unmap_data().
Thanks
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