Commit a8157ff3 authored by James Smart's avatar James Smart Committed by Keith Busch

nvme: add error message on mismatching controller ids

We've seen a few devices that return different controller id's to
the Fabric Connect command vs the Identify(controller) command. It's
currently hard to identify this failure by existing error messages. It
comes across as a (re)connect attempt in the transport that fails with
a -22 (-EINVAL) status. The issue is compounded by older kernels not
having the controller id check or had the identify command overwrite the
fabrics controller id value before it checked. Both resulted in cases
where the devices appeared fine until more recent kernels.

Clarify the reject by adding an error message on controller id mismatches.
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEwan D. Milne <emilne@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Smart <jsmart2021@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKeith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
parent 863fbae9
......@@ -2862,6 +2862,10 @@ int nvme_init_identify(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
* admin connect
*/
if (ctrl->cntlid != le16_to_cpu(id->cntlid)) {
dev_err(ctrl->device,
"Mismatching cntlid: Connect %u vs Identify "
"%u, rejecting\n",
ctrl->cntlid, le16_to_cpu(id->cntlid));
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out_free;
}
......
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