On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 05:15:45PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 12:56:11AM +0900, Keith Busch wrote:
Despite NVM Express specification 1.3 requires a controller claiming to be 1.3 or higher implement Identify CNS 03h (Namespace Identification Descriptor list), the driver doesn't really need this identification in order to use a namespace. The code had already documented in comments that we're not to consider an error to this command.
Return success if the controller provided any response to an namespace identification descriptors command.
Fixes: 538af88ea7d9de24 ("nvme: make nvme_report_ns_ids propagate error back") Reported-by: Ingo Brunberg ingo_brunberg@web.de
Why would we ignore the error? Do you have a buggy controller messing this up?
I don't have such a controller, but many apparently do. The regression was reported here:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2019-December/028223.html
And of course it's the SMI controller ...