Re: [PATCH] nvme-tcp: Check if request has started before processing it

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 3/1/21 2:26 PM, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 02:19:01AM +0900, Keith Busch wrote:
>> Crashing is bad, silent data corruption is worse. Is there truly no
>> defense against that? If not, why should anyone rely on this?
> 
> If we receive an response for which we don't have a started request, we
> know that something is wrong. Couldn't we in just reset the connection
> in this case? We don't have to pretend nothing has happened and
> continuing normally. This would avoid a host crash and would not create
> (more) data corruption. Or I am just too naive?
> 
This is actually a sensible solution.
Please send a patch for that.

Cheers,

Hannes
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