From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paul.grabinar@ranbarg.com (Paul Grabinar) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:09:25 +0100 Subject: Discard operation with protection type 0 Message-ID: <55AD4765.1090802@ranbarg.com> Hi, Sorry to bother everyone again with another issue to do with end-to-end protection. I know we all love them. I think this one is minor. The configuration concerns a device with 512 byte (though I think 4k would be the same) sectors, 8 bytes of meta-data in a seperate buffer and a protection type of zero. Discard (TRIM) operations on such a configuration can fail. The driver needs to ensure that a buffer with the meta-data is provided, as it is not possible to use the PRACT bit. However, for discard operation, I don't think we care, as the discard command does not need meta-data. The following patch is not necessarily the right fix, but shows what I think the issue is. Thanks. diff --git a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c index 7920c27..8beb86f 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c +++ b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c @@ -863,6 +863,7 @@ static int nvme_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, */ if (ns && ns->ms && !blk_integrity_rq(req)) { if (!(ns->pi_type && ns->ms == 8) && + !(req->cmd_flags & REQ_DISCARD) && req->cmd_type != REQ_TYPE_DRV_PRIV) { req->errors = -EFAULT; blk_mq_complete_request(req);