[PATCH] nvme-auth: update bi_directional flag

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Mon Sep 15 05:20:00 PDT 2025


On 9/15/25 13:49, Martin George wrote:
> While setting chap->s2 to zero as part of secure channel
> concatenation, the host missed out to disable the bi_directional
> flag to indicate that controller authentication is not requested.
> Fix the same.
> 
> Fixes: e88a7595b57f ("nvme-tcp: request secure channel concatenation")
> Signed-off-by: Martin George <marting at netapp.com>
> ---
>   drivers/nvme/host/auth.c | 5 +++--
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/auth.c b/drivers/nvme/host/auth.c
> index 201fc8809a62..012fcfc79a73 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/auth.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/auth.c
> @@ -331,9 +331,10 @@ static int nvme_auth_set_dhchap_reply_data(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl,
>   	} else {
>   		memset(chap->c2, 0, chap->hash_len);
>   	}
> -	if (ctrl->opts->concat)
> +	if (ctrl->opts->concat) {
>   		chap->s2 = 0;
> -	else
> +		chap->bi_directional = false;
> +	} else
>   		chap->s2 = nvme_auth_get_seqnum();
>   	data->seqnum = cpu_to_le32(chap->s2);
>   	if (chap->host_key_len) {

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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