Re: [PATCH] nvme: Don't fail to resume if NSIDs change

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 03:14:54PM -0500, Limonciello, Mario wrote:
>> No.  There are tons of NVMe devices that only support creating and
>> deleting namespace out of band, especially in virtualized and cloud
>> setups.
>
> Even if it's only the error handling path only that it's checked?

Do you mean nvme_validate_ns with the error code?  I wouldn't really call
that an error case, that's the function called to check namespaces are
still the same after we did a rescan (either manually or triggered by the
AEN).

> If you don't want more changes or heuristics on the error handling path for 
> this case, I think the best solution is probably to pick up
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221116171727.4083-1-git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/t/
>
> instead then and hopefully we don't end up with more disks like this.

That's probably the better idea.  I know at least one of the early
quirked devices also IDs that changed for subsequent identify calls.