Fwd: Lexar NM790 SSDs are not recognized anymore after 6.1.50 LTS

Bagas Sanjaya
2023-09-04T11:08:04Z

Hi,

I notice a regression report on Bugzilla [1]. Quoting from it:

> I bought a new 4 TB Lexar NM790 and I was using kernel 6.3.13 at the time. It wasn't recognized, with these messages in dmesg:
>
> [ 358.950147] nvme nvme0: pci function 0000:06:00.0
> [ 358.958327] nvme nvme0: Device not ready; aborting initialisation, CSTS=0x0
>
> My other NVMe appears correctly in the nvme list though.
>
>
> So I tried using other kernels I had installed at the time: 6.3.7, 6.4.10, 6.5.0rc6, 6.5.0, 6.5.1 and none of these recognized the disk.
> I installed the 6.1.50 lts kernel from arch repositories (I can compile my own too if this would be an issue) and then the device was correctly recognized:
>
> [ 4.654613] nvme 0000:06:00.0: platform quirk: setting simple suspend
> [ 4.654632] nvme nvme0: pci function 0000:06:00.0
> [ 4.667290] nvme nvme0: allocated 40 MiB host memory buffer.
> [ 4.709473] nvme nvme0: 16/0/0 default/read/poll queues
>
> And then it appears alongside the other nvme:
> [15:58] [6836] [patola@risadinha patola]% sudo nvme list
> Node Generic SN Model Namespace Usage Format FW Rev
> --------------------- --------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------- -------------------------- ---------------- --------
> /dev/nvme1n1 /dev/ng1n1 2K36292CEKD9 XPG GAMMIX S11 Pro 0x1 1.39 TB / 2.05 TB 512 B + 0 B 42B4S9NA
> /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/ng0n1 NF9755R000057P2202 Lexar SSD NM790 4TB 0x1 4.10 TB / 4.10 TB 512 B + 0 B 12237
>
> And I was able to read and write from it, pvcreate and so on, so it's working. But I can't use a higher kernel version so apparently this is a regression.
>
> There are other people with the same NVMe model (although different capacities) reporting the same issue on this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/15xbxeo/nvme_device_not_ready_aborting_initialisation/
>
> I am not sure but I think this issue might've been introducted after this patch: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215742

See Bugzilla for the full thread and proposed quirk fix.

Anyway, I'm adding this regression to be tracked by regzbot:

#regzbot introduced: v6.1.50..v6.3.13 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217863
#regzbot link: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/15xbxeo/nvme_device_not_ready_aborting_initialisation/

Thanks.

[1]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217863

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