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From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:37:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160624073728.GA30277@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160619230634.17229-1-kernel@jbeekman.nl>

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016@04:06:31PM -0700, Jethro Beekman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If an NVMe drive is locked with ATA Security, most commands sent to the drive 
> will fail. This includes commands sent by the kernel upon discovery to probe 
> for partitions. The failing happens in such a way that trying to do anything 
> with the drive (e.g. sending an unlock command; unloading the nvme module) is 
> basically impossible with the high default command timeout.

Do you have any spec that defines this ATA security protocol and how
it applies to NVMe?  The NVMe spec just referes to SPC4 for security
protocols, and I haven't been able to find a reference to an ATA
security protocol in it either, but I haven't tried hard yet.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-24  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-19 23:06 [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Jethro Beekman
2016-06-19 23:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] nvme: When scanning namespaces, make sure the drive is not locked Jethro Beekman
2016-06-24  8:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-19 23:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] nvme: Add function for NVMe security receive command Jethro Beekman
2016-06-19 23:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] nvme: Check if drive is locked using ATA Security Jethro Beekman
2016-06-24  8:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-20  6:46 ` [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Sagi Grimberg
2016-06-24  8:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-20 15:26 ` Keith Busch
2016-06-20 18:21   ` Jethro Beekman
2016-06-20 22:54     ` Keith Busch
2016-06-21  3:50       ` Jethro Beekman
2016-06-24  7:43         ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-24  8:11   ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-24  7:37 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-06-24  7:45   ` Jethro Beekman
2016-06-24  8:00     ` Christoph Hellwig

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