[PATCH 1/2] nvme: print namespace IDs as unsigned 32bit value

[PATCH 1/2] nvme: print namespace IDs as unsigned 32bit value

[Mohamed Khalfella]

NSIDs are 32-bit unsigned values, but a number of log messages print
them with %d. An NSID larger than 0x7fffffff is rendered as a negative
number, which is confusing in the kernel log and makes the message hard
to correlate with the namespace it talks about. Sparse NSID spaces
where high NSIDs are common are the most likely to hit this.

The nsid sysfs attribute has the same problem, and there it is worse
because userspace parses the value.

For example:
$ grep . /sys/class/block/nvme0*/nsid
/sys/class/block/nvme0c0n1/nsid:10
/sys/class/block/nvme0c0n2/nsid:-16
/sys/class/block/nvme0c0n3/nsid:11
/sys/class/block/nvme0c0n4/nsid:-2000000016
/sys/class/block/nvme0n1/nsid:10
/sys/class/block/nvme0n2/nsid:-16
/sys/class/block/nvme0n3/nsid:11
/sys/class/block/nvme0n4/nsid:-2000000016
$

Print all of them with %u. Several messages in these files, including
two in zns.c right next to the ones being changed, already use %u, so
this only makes the rest consistent with them. No functional change
other than how the NSID is formatted.

Fixes: 2b9b6e86bca7 ("NVMe: Export namespace attributes to sysfs")
Fixes: 1d5df6af8c74 ("nvme: don't blindly overwrite identifiers on disk revalidate")
Fixes: ed754e5deeb1 ("nvme: track shared namespaces")
Fixes: 9ad1927a3bc2 ("nvme: always search for namespace head")
Fixes: 71010c309454 ("nvme: implement multiple I/O Command Set support")
Fixes: 2f4c9ba23b88 ("nvme: export zoned namespaces without Zone Append support read-only")
Fixes: 0ec84df4953b ("nvme-core: check ctrl css before setting up zns")
Fixes: 2079f41ec6ff ("nvme: check that EUI/GUID/UUID are globally unique")
Fixes: ce8d78616a6b ("nvme: warn about shared namespaces without CONFIG_NVME_MULTIPATH")
Fixes: ac522fc6c316 ("nvme: don't reject probe due to duplicate IDs for single-ported PCIe devices")
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Khalfella <mkhalfella@purestorage.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/core.c  | 18 +++++++++---------
 drivers/nvme/host/sysfs.c |  2 +-
 drivers/nvme/host/zns.c   |  4 ++--
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index cc014cdc72ff..6ac173ba65d7 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -1610,7 +1610,7 @@ static int nvme_identify_ns_descs(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl,
 	}
 
 	if (nvme_multi_css(ctrl) && !csi_seen) {
-		dev_warn(ctrl->device, "Command set not reported for nsid:%d\n",
+		dev_warn(ctrl->device, "Command set not reported for nsid:%u\n",
 			 info->nsid);
 		status = -EINVAL;
 	}
@@ -4126,13 +4126,13 @@ static int nvme_init_ns_head(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct nvme_ns_info *info)
 		    ((ns->ctrl->subsys->cmic & NVME_CTRL_CMIC_MULTI_CTRL) &&
 		     info->is_shared)) {
 			dev_err(ctrl->device,
-				"ignoring nsid %d because of duplicate IDs\n",
+				"ignoring nsid %u because of duplicate IDs\n",
 				info->nsid);
 			return ret;
 		}
 
 		dev_err(ctrl->device,
-			"clearing duplicate IDs for nsid %d\n", info->nsid);
+			"clearing duplicate IDs for nsid %u\n", info->nsid);
 		dev_err(ctrl->device,
 			"use of /dev/disk/by-id/ may cause data corruption\n");
 		memset(&info->ids.nguid, 0, sizeof(info->ids.nguid));
@@ -4147,7 +4147,7 @@ static int nvme_init_ns_head(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct nvme_ns_info *info)
 		ret = nvme_subsys_check_duplicate_ids(ctrl->subsys, &info->ids);
 		if (ret) {
 			dev_err(ctrl->device,
-				"duplicate IDs in subsystem for nsid %d\n",
+				"duplicate IDs in subsystem for nsid %u\n",
 				info->nsid);
 			goto out_unlock;
 		}
@@ -4161,20 +4161,20 @@ static int nvme_init_ns_head(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct nvme_ns_info *info)
 		if ((!info->is_shared || !head->shared) &&
 		    !list_empty(&head->list)) {
 			dev_err(ctrl->device,
-				"Duplicate unshared namespace %d\n",
+				"Duplicate unshared namespace %u\n",
 				info->nsid);
 			goto out_put_ns_head;
 		}
 		if (!nvme_ns_ids_equal(&head->ids, &info->ids)) {
 			dev_err(ctrl->device,
-				"IDs don't match for shared namespace %d\n",
+				"IDs don't match for shared namespace %u\n",
 					info->nsid);
 			goto out_put_ns_head;
 		}
 
 		if (!multipath) {
 			dev_warn(ctrl->device,
-				"Found shared namespace %d, but multipathing not supported.\n",
+				"Found shared namespace %u, but multipathing not supported.\n",
 				info->nsid);
 			dev_warn_once(ctrl->device,
 				"Shared namespace support requires core_nvme.multipath=Y.\n");
@@ -4420,7 +4420,7 @@ static void nvme_validate_ns(struct nvme_ns *ns, struct nvme_ns_info *info)
 
 	if (!nvme_ns_ids_equal(&ns->head->ids, &info->ids)) {
 		dev_err(ns->ctrl->device,
-			"identifiers changed for nsid %d\n", ns->head->ns_id);
+			"identifiers changed for nsid %u\n", ns->head->ns_id);
 		goto out;
 	}
 
@@ -4447,7 +4447,7 @@ static void nvme_scan_ns(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, unsigned nsid)
 
 	if (info.ids.csi != NVME_CSI_NVM && !nvme_multi_css(ctrl)) {
 		dev_warn(ctrl->device,
-			"command set not reported for nsid: %d\n", nsid);
+			"command set not reported for nsid: %u\n", nsid);
 		return;
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/sysfs.c b/drivers/nvme/host/sysfs.c
index abf8edaae371..02a2490a9ed7 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/sysfs.c
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(eui);
 static ssize_t nsid_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 		char *buf)
 {
-	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n", dev_to_ns_head(dev)->ns_id);
+	return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", dev_to_ns_head(dev)->ns_id);
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(nsid);
 
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/zns.c b/drivers/nvme/host/zns.c
index 2a152e87bd76..e31ec6f4f94f 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/zns.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/zns.c
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ int nvme_query_zone_info(struct nvme_ns *ns, unsigned lbaf,
 			NVME_CMD_EFFECTS_CSUPP)) {
 		if (test_and_clear_bit(NVME_NS_FORCE_RO, &ns->flags))
 			dev_warn(ns->ctrl->device,
-				 "Zone Append supported for zoned namespace:%d. Remove read-only mode\n",
+				 "Zone Append supported for zoned namespace:%u. Remove read-only mode\n",
 				 ns->head->ns_id);
 	} else {
 		set_bit(NVME_NS_FORCE_RO, &ns->flags);
 		dev_warn(ns->ctrl->device,
-			 "Zone Append not supported for zoned namespace:%d. Forcing to read-only mode\n",
+			 "Zone Append not supported for zoned namespace:%u. Forcing to read-only mode\n",
 			 ns->head->ns_id);
 	}
 
-- 
2.54.0

[PATCH 2/2] nvmet: print namespace IDs as unsigned 32bit value

[Mohamed Khalfella]

struct nvmet_ns.nsid is a u32, but a few messages print it with %d.
An NSID larger than 0x7fffffff is rendered as a negative number, which
is misleading in general and particularly so for the configfs messages
that echo back the NSID the user just asked for.

For example:
[  T200] nvmet: adding nsid -16 to subsystem mysubsystem

Print them with %u. The invalid-NSID error in nvmet_ns_make() keeps its
%#x because the two values it rejects, 0 and NVME_NSID_ALL, are more
readable in hex format. No functional change other than how the NSID is
formatted.

Fixes: a07b4970f464 ("nvmet: add a generic NVMe target")
Fixes: c6925093d0b2 ("nvmet: Optionally use PCI P2P memory")
Fixes: 5a47c2080a73 ("nvmet: support reservation feature")
Signed-off-by: Mohamed Khalfella <mkhalfella@purestorage.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c | 4 ++--
 drivers/nvme/target/core.c     | 2 +-
 drivers/nvme/target/pr.c       | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c b/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c
index 413ee2d16d29..6286e38436dd 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c
@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ static ssize_t nvmet_ns_resv_enable_store(struct config_item *item,
 
 	mutex_lock(&ns->subsys->lock);
 	if (ns->enabled) {
-		pr_err("the ns:%d is already enabled.\n", ns->nsid);
+		pr_err("the ns:%u is already enabled.\n", ns->nsid);
 		mutex_unlock(&ns->subsys->lock);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ static struct config_group *nvmet_ns_make(struct config_group *group,
 		goto out;
 	config_group_init_type_name(&ns->group, name, &nvmet_ns_type);
 
-	pr_info("adding nsid %d to subsystem %s\n", nsid, subsys->subsysnqn);
+	pr_info("adding nsid %u to subsystem %s\n", nsid, subsys->subsysnqn);
 
 	return &ns->group;
 out:
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
index d74c01c98f19..ad60b91ced6c 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/core.c
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ static void nvmet_p2pmem_ns_add_p2p(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl,
 	if (ret < 0)
 		pci_dev_put(p2p_dev);
 
-	pr_info("using p2pmem on %s for nsid %d\n", pci_name(p2p_dev),
+	pr_info("using p2pmem on %s for nsid %u\n", pci_name(p2p_dev),
 		ns->nsid);
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/pr.c b/drivers/nvme/target/pr.c
index 0948a690a1c0..09d8c63f5680 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/pr.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/pr.c
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static void nvmet_pr_add_resv_log(struct nvmet_ctrl *ctrl, u8 log_type,
 	log.nsid = cpu_to_le32(nsid);
 
 	if (!kfifo_put(&log_mgr->log_queue, log)) {
-		pr_info("a reservation log lost, cntlid:%d, log_type:%d, nsid:%d\n",
+		pr_info("a reservation log lost, cntlid:%d, log_type:%d, nsid:%u\n",
 			ctrl->cntlid, log_type, nsid);
 		log_mgr->lost_count++;
 	}
-- 
2.54.0

Re: [PATCH 1/2] nvme: print namespace IDs as unsigned 32bit value

[Sagi Grimberg]

Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>

Re: [PATCH 2/2] nvmet: print namespace IDs as unsigned 32bit value

[Sagi Grimberg]

Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>

Re: [PATCH 1/2] nvme: print namespace IDs as unsigned 32bit value

[Keith Busch]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 04:03:09PM -0700, Mohamed Khalfella wrote:
> NSIDs are 32-bit unsigned values, but a number of log messages print
> them with %d. An NSID larger than 0x7fffffff is rendered as a negative
> number, which is confusing in the kernel log and makes the message hard
> to correlate with the namespace it talks about. Sparse NSID spaces
> where high NSIDs are common are the most likely to hit this.
> 
> The nsid sysfs attribute has the same problem, and there it is worse
> because userspace parses the value.

Thanks, applied to nvme-7.3.