[PATCH net 2/7] nvme-tcp: store negative errno in queue->tls_err

[Alistair Francis]

On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 4:29 AM Chuck Lever <cel at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com>
>
> nvme_tcp_tls_done() assigns queue->tls_err in three branches.  The
> ENOKEY lookup failure and the EOPNOTSUPP initializer both store
> negative errnos.  The third branch, reached when the handshake
> layer reports a non-zero status, stores -status.
>
> The handshake layer delivers status to the consumer callback as a
> negative errno; the other in-tree consumers --
> xs_tls_handshake_done() and the nvmet target callback -- treat
> their status argument that way.  The extra negation in
> nvme_tcp_tls_done() flips the sign, leaving tls_err as a positive
> value (for instance, +EIO), which nvme_tcp_start_tls() then
> returns to its caller.
>
> Drop the extra negation so queue->tls_err uniformly carries a
> negative errno on failure.
>
> Fixes: be8e82caa685 ("nvme-tcp: enable TLS handshake upcall")
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever at oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis at wdc.com>

Alistair

> ---
>  drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
> index 15d36d6a728e..68a1d7640494 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
> @@ -1702,7 +1702,7 @@ static void nvme_tcp_tls_done(void *data, int status, key_serial_t pskid)
>                 qid, pskid, status);
>
>         if (status) {
> -               queue->tls_err = -status;
> +               queue->tls_err = status;
>                 goto out_complete;
>         }
>
>
> --
> 2.54.0
>
>