linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nvme: check ctrl.tagset before start ns scan

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Date:   Wed, 3 Jan 2018 11:37:45 +0200
From:   Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
To:     Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@...cle.com>, keith.busch@...el.com,
        axboe@...com, hch@....de
Cc:     linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: check ctrl.tagset before start ns scan

Hi Jianchao,

> ctrl.tagset maybe NULL due to failure of io queue setup or blk-mq
> tagset allocation in nvme_reset_work. Then panic would come up.
> To fix this, just add ctrl.tagset check in nvme_scan_work.

This came up before (and forgotten...) I think we should not
have state indicators other than ctrl->state.

How about instead we add a new state NVME_CTRL_ADMIN_LIVE when we have
no I/O queues.