Re: [PATCH V5 2/2] nvme-pci: fixup the timeout case when reset is ongoing

From: Keith Busch
Date: Fri Jan 19 2018 - 01:02:12 EST


On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:55:29PM +0800, jianchao.wang wrote:
> On 01/19/2018 12:59 PM, Keith Busch wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 06:10:02PM +0800, Jianchao Wang wrote:
> >> + * - When the ctrl.state is NVME_CTRL_RESETTING, the expired
> >> + * request should come from the previous work and we handle
> >> + * it as nvme_cancel_request.
> >> + * - When the ctrl.state is NVME_CTRL_RECONNECTING, the expired
> >> + * request should come from the initializing procedure such as
> >> + * setup io queues, because all the previous outstanding
> >> + * requests should have been cancelled.
> >> */
> >> - if (dev->ctrl.state == NVME_CTRL_RESETTING) {
> >> - dev_warn(dev->ctrl.device,
> >> - "I/O %d QID %d timeout, disable controller\n",
> >> - req->tag, nvmeq->qid);
> >> - nvme_dev_disable(dev, false);
> >> + switch (dev->ctrl.state) {
> >> + case NVME_CTRL_RESETTING:
> >> + nvme_req(req)->status = NVME_SC_ABORT_REQ;
> >> + return BLK_EH_HANDLED;
> >> + case NVME_CTRL_RECONNECTING:
> >> + WARN_ON_ONCE(nvmeq->qid);
> >> nvme_req(req)->flags |= NVME_REQ_CANCELLED;
> >> return BLK_EH_HANDLED;
> >> + default:
> >> + break;
> >> }
> >
> > The driver may be giving up on the command here, but that doesn't mean
> > the controller has. We can't just end the request like this because that
> > will release the memory the controller still owns. We must wait until
> > after nvme_dev_disable clears bus master because we can't say for sure
> > the controller isn't going to write to that address right after we end
> > the request.
> >
> Yes, but the controller is going to be reseted or shutdown at the moment,
> even if the controller accesses a bad address and goes wrong, everything will
> be ok after reset or shutdown. :)

Hm, I don't follow. DMA access after free is never okay.