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

[Nilay Shroff]

On 10/21/24 03:21, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
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> 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.
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> ugh.. looks like I'm late (after a too long of a delay... I know)
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> I think we want to sort this out, it is not clear to me that the approach
> taken is the correct one.
I welcome you comments and also willing to fix this if you think the approach 
is not optimal... 

Thanks,
--Nilay