linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] nvme: fix nvme_remove going to uninterruptible sleep for ever

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Date:   Thu, 1 Jun 2017 14:46:32 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@...era.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>,
        Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] nvme: fix nvme_remove going to uninterruptible
        sleep for ever

On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 03:36:50PM +0300, Rakesh Pandit wrote:
> Also Sagi pointed out that user space set_features ioctl if fired up
> in a window after nvme_removal it can also result in this issue seems
> to be correct.  I would prefer to keep this as it is and introduce
> similar check higher up in nvme_ioctrl instead so that we don't send
> sync commands if queues are killed already.
> 
> Would you prefer a patch ? Thanks,

If we want to kill everyone we probably should do it in ->queue_rq.
Or is the block layer blocking you somewhere else?