[PATCH v4 0/3] nvme: system fault while shutting down fabric controller

[Sagi Grimberg]

On 17/10/2024 21:08, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 08:33:13AM +0530, Nilay Shroff wrote:
>> We observed a kernel task hang up and a kernel crash while shutting down
>> NVMe fabric controller. These issues were observed while running blktest
>> nvme/037. The first two patches in this series address issues encountered
>> while running this test. The third patch in the series is an attempt to
>> use helper nvme_ctrl_state for accessing NVMe controller state.
>>
>> We intermittently observe the blow kernel task hang while running the
>> blktest nvme/037. This test setup NVMeOF passthru controller using loop
>> target, connect to it and then immediately terminate/cleanup the
>> connection.
> Thanks, applied to nvme-6.12.

ugh.. looks like I'm late (after a too long of a delay... I know)

I think we want to sort this out, it is not clear to me that the approach
taken is the correct one.