Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Nov 2017 07:43:04 -0700 | From | Keith Busch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] nvme: do not check for ns on rw path |
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On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 10:13:24AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2017 at 09:38:45AM -0600, Keith Busch wrote: > > That's not quite right. For non-PI metadata formats, we use the > > 'nop_profile', which gets the metadata buffer allocated so we can safely > > use a metadata formatted namespace. There's no in-kernel user of the > > allocated payload, but we still need the metadata buffer in order to > > use the namespace at all. > > You're right. But that means we will indeed always have a matching > integrity payload here and the check should not be needed. > > Are you fine with turning it into something like: > > if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ns->ms && !blk_integrity_rq(req))) > return BLK_STS_IOERR; > > ?
Yes, that looks fine. You're right that we are not supposed to be able to get into this path for read/write since the driver sets the capacity to 0 if a metadata format doesn't have integrity support, so hitting this warning would indicate something has gone wrong.
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