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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] nvme: check that EUI/GUID/UUID are globally unique
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:51:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220224165138.GA32261@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220224154304.GB2976831@dhcp-10-100-145-180.wdc.com>

On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 07:43:04AM -0800, Keith Busch wrote:
> It looks like a race condition exists here such that two namespaces with
> duplicate IDs in different subsystems being concurrently added may not
> see the duplicate.

Yes.  But do we care?  This is a sanity check.  The alternative would be
to hold nvme_subsystems_lock for the whole ns_head probing, which is
a little annoying.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-24 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-24 10:58 properly validate the nvme uniqueue identifiers are unique Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-24 10:58 ` [PATCH 1/3] nvme: cleanup __nvme_check_ids Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-24 13:31   ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-02-24 15:29   ` Keith Busch
2022-02-24 10:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] nvme: fix the IDs equality check Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-24 14:12   ` Kanchan Joshi
2022-02-24 10:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] nvme: check that EUI/GUID/UUID are globally unique Christoph Hellwig
2022-02-24 15:43   ` Keith Busch
2022-02-24 16:51     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-02-24 17:12       ` Keith Busch

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