[PATCH v3 2/2] nvme: prevent admin controller from smart log fetch (LID 2)

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Tue Jul 22 00:07:42 PDT 2025


On 7/18/25 02:14, Kamaljit Singh wrote:
> Similar to a discovery ctrl, prevent an admin-ctrl from getting a smart
> log. LID 2 is optional for admin controllers to support.
> 
> In the future when support for 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 105127638c31..6e5c9871b76d 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.

And to go with my suggestion for the previous patch, maybe it's
an idea to have a helper 'nvme_io_queues_supported()' which could be
used here (and in the previous patch)?

Cheers,

Hannes
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