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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: mwilck@suse.com
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <Chaitanya.Kulkarni@wdc.com>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] nvme: avoid "(efault)" from nvme_sysfs_show_subsysnqn()
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 08:58:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210202075828.GA12160@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210202005951.26614-1-mwilck@suse.com>

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 01:59:51AM +0100, mwilck@suse.com wrote:
> From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
> 
> While a controller is still connecting, ctrl->subsys is NULL and
> thus reading the controller's "subsysnqn" sysfs attribute returns
> "(efault)". This happens all the time when user space processes
> "add" events for NVMe controller devices.
> 
> Fix it by returning the nvmf_ctrl_options' subsysnqn attribute
> if ctrl->subsys isn't initialized yet.

This is just papering over symptoms.  We should not be sending
events or display sysfs files until the controlle is live.

In other wwords - I think we should remove the cdev_device_add
from nvme_init_ctrl to nvme_start_ctrl (+ any error handling changes
resulting from that).

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-02  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-02  0:59 [PATCH v2] nvme: avoid "(efault)" from nvme_sysfs_show_subsysnqn() mwilck
2021-02-02  1:34 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2021-02-02  7:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-02-03 10:01   ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-02-03 12:31   ` Martin Wilck
2021-02-03 16:51     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-03 16:52     ` Keith Busch
2021-02-03 22:19       ` Sagi Grimberg
2021-02-04  2:42         ` Keith Busch
2021-02-04  7:44           ` Sagi Grimberg

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