linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] nvme-pci: cancel nvme device request before disabling

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Date:   Fri, 28 Aug 2020 08:51:55 -0700
From:   Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>
To:     Tong Zhang <ztong0001@...il.com>
Cc:     axboe@...com, hch@....de, sagi@...mberg.me,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] nvme-pci: cancel nvme device request before disabling

On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:17:08AM -0400, Tong Zhang wrote:
> This patch addresses an irq free warning and null pointer dereference
> error problem when nvme devices got timeout error during initialization.
> This problem happens when nvme_timeout() function is called while
> nvme_reset_work() is still in execution. This patch fixed the problem by
> setting flag of the problematic request to NVME_REQ_CANCELLED before
> calling nvme_dev_disable() to make sure __nvme_submit_sync_cmd() returns
> an error code and let nvme_submit_sync_cmd() fail gracefully.
> The following is console output.

Thanks, this looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>