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SubjectRe: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 18/18] nvme-pci: disable namespace identifiers for Qemu controllers
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 11:52:36AM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 02:13:52PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 66dd346b84d79fde20832ed691a54f4881eac20d ]
>>
>> Qemu unconditionally reports a UUID, which depending on the qemu version
>> is either all-null (which is incorrect but harmless) or contains a single
>> bit set for all controllers. In addition it can also optionally report
>> a eui64 which needs to be manually set. Disable namespace identifiers
>> for Qemu controlles entirely even if in some cases they could be set
>> correctly through manual intervention.
>>
>> Reported-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>> Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
>> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>
>Huh? The NVME_QUIRK_BOGUS_NID is a new define and the code which uses
>this quirk is also new, and so I'm curious *how and why* the auto-sel
>stuff for stable can decide to merge this and this should not even
>compile? I see this was backported to v5.15 and v5.17 as well.

Because we take quirks for -stable?

It does compile apparently... At least with the configs we test.

>I didn't get Cc'd on perhaps some other patches, but this immediately
>caught my attention as not applicable, unless of course the patch
>"nvme: add a quirk to disable namespace identifiers" was also sent
>as part of this series to stable kernels. And if that was done, well
>holy crap, really?

Yes, it was.

I'm not sure why we shouldn't be picking it up?

--
Thanks,
Sasha

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