Re: [PATCH] nvmet: fix nvmet_execute_write_zeroes function

From: Keith Busch
Date: Fri Mar 30 2018 - 17:22:14 EST


On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 06:18:50PM -0300, Rodrigo R. Galvao wrote:
> When trying to issue write_zeroes command against TARGET the nr_sector is
> being incremented by 1, which ends up hitting the following condition at
> __blkdev_issue_zeroout:
>
> if ((sector | nr_sects) & bs_mask)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> Causing the command to always fail. Removing the increment makes the
> command to work properly.

Doesn't that mean your host is using this command wrong? The NLB is a
0's based value, we're supposed to +1 to get the correct block count.