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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Yuanyuan Zhong <yzhong@purestorage.com>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	sagi@grimberg.me, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, randyj@purestorage.com,
	hcoutinho@purestorage.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme-core: remove head->effects to fix use-after-free
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 09:23:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231120082346.GA11622@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZVeW-8cNNVOvNdaR@kbusch-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 09:38:19AM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> The effects log is per-CSI so different command sets won't create
> conflicts.

True.  But that wasn't the point anyway.  It is that different
controllers might expose very different namespaes with different
capabilities.  Maybe a controller with HDD namespaces vs flash might
be a better example.

> Namespaces that are not shared don't really matter here because this
> problem is unique to mulitpath.

Indeed.

> It doesn't make sense for effects logs to be different per-controller
> for the same shared namespace. The spec doesn't seem to explicitly
> prevent that, but hints that all hosts should be seeing the same thing
> no matter which controller they're connected to:

Also agreed as already indicated in the past mail.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-20  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-15 18:54 [PATCH] nvme-core: remove head->effects to fix use-after-free Yuanyuan Zhong
2023-11-15 19:02 ` Jens Axboe
2023-11-15 19:21   ` Yuanyuan Zhong
2023-11-15 19:55     ` Keith Busch
2023-11-15 22:44       ` Yuanyuan Zhong
2023-11-16  3:52         ` Keith Busch
2023-11-16 19:12           ` Yuanyuan Zhong
2023-11-17 13:28           ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-17 16:38             ` Keith Busch
2023-11-20  8:23               ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-11-20 10:18                 ` Sagi Grimberg
2023-11-20 23:31                   ` Randy Jennings
2023-11-15 23:42 ` kernel test robot
2023-11-19 19:29 ` kernel test robot

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