[PATCH] nvmet-auth: update sc_c in target host hash calculation

[Alistair Francis]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de> wrote:
>
> On 10/29/25 12:20, Alistair Francis wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/29/25 05:53, alistair23 at gmail.com wrote:
> >>> From: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis at wdc.com>
> >>>
> >>> Commit 7e091add9c43 "nvme-auth: update sc_c in host response" added
> >>> the sc_c variable to the dhchap queue context structure which is
> >>> appropriately set during negotiate and then used in the host response.
> >>>
> >>> This breaks secure concat connections with a Linux target as the target
> >>> code wasn't updated at the same time. This patch fixes this by adding a
> >>> new sc_c variable to the host hash calculations.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis at wdc.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>    drivers/nvme/host/auth.c               | 1 +
> >>>    drivers/nvme/target/auth.c             | 3 ++-
> >>>    drivers/nvme/target/fabrics-cmd-auth.c | 1 +
> >>>    drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h            | 1 +
> >>>    4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >> I've already send a similar patch for this, which actually should
> >> already have been merged.
> >> Can you check if that works for you?
> >
> > I checked master when I sent this and there was nothing applied. Is it
> > in a different tree?
> >
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/aPl4-6WQ940kUso7@kbusch-mbp/T/#t

Thanks.

Your patch is now in master, but doesn't fix the issue for me. I still
get failures with a secure concat connection.

My patch (rebased on top of yours) fixes the issue for me

Alistair

>
> Cheers,
>
> Hannes
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