Re: [PATCH v16 6/9] nvmet-passthru: Add passthru code to process commands

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Jul 26 2020 - 11:44:07 EST


On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:33:51PM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:25:17AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> > + /*
> > + * The passthru NVMe driver may have a limit on the number of segments
> > + * which depends on the host's memory fragementation. To solve this,
> > + * ensure mdts is limitted to the pages equal to the number of
>
> limited

I've fixed this when applying.

> > + /* don't support fuse commands */
> > + id->fuses = 0;
>
> If a host were to set a fuse, the target should return an Invalid Field
> error. Just to future-proof, rejecting commands with any flags set
> (other than SGL, which you handled in patch 1/9) is probably what should
> happen, like:
>
> > +u16 nvmet_parse_passthru_io_cmd(struct nvmet_req *req)
> > +{
>
> if (req->cmd->common.flags & ~NVME_CMD_SGL_ALL)
> return NVME_SC_INVALID_FIELD;
>
> Or maybe we could obviate the need for 1/9 with something like:
>
> req->cmd->common.flags &= ~NVME_CMD_SGL_ALL;
> if (req->cmd->common.flags)
> return NVME_SC_INVALID_FIELD;

We'll also need this for the admin commands, but otherwise this sounds
like a good idea. For now I've applied the series as-is, but an
incremental patch for this would be nice.