[PATCH v2 2/3] nvme: prevent admin controller from smart log fetch (LID 2)

[Kamaljit Singh]

Hi Damien,

On 7/1/25 19:14, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>> Similar to a discovery ctrl, prevent an admin-ctrl from getting a smart
>> log. LID 2 is optional for admin controllers to support.

>If it is optional, when the admin controller support it, why prevent it ?
>This is what your code does... Or is it that at this stage of the
>initialization, you do not know yet if the admin controller supports LTD 2 ?
Yes, the latter. If the admin controller does not support LID=2 then GLP
will fail. My suggestion is to revisit this later and add smarts based on
LID=0 (supported log pages) response from the controller.

>
> In the future when support for the newly added LID=0 (supported log
> pages) is added, GLP accesses can be made smarter by basing such calls
> on response from LID=0 reads.
>
> Reference: NVMe Base rev 2.2, sec 3.1.3.5, fig 31.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kamaljit Singh <kamaljit.singh1 at wdc.com>
> ---
>  drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> index a1155fb8d5be..c310634e75f3 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
> @@ -3705,7 +3705,7 @@ int nvme_init_ctrl_finish(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, bool was_suspended)
>
>       nvme_configure_opal(ctrl, was_suspended);
>
> -     if (!ctrl->identified && !nvme_discovery_ctrl(ctrl)) {
> +     if (!ctrl->identified && !nvme_discovery_ctrl(ctrl) && !nvme_admin_ctrl(ctrl)) {
>               /*
>                * Do not return errors unless we are in a controller reset,
>                * the controller works perfectly fine without hwmon.


Thanks,
Kamaljit