Discard operation with protection type 0
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Hi,
Sorry to bother everyone again with another issue to do with end-to-end protection. I know we all love them.
I think this one is minor.
The configuration concerns a device with 512 byte (though I think 4k would be the same) sectors, 8 bytes of meta-data in a seperate buffer and a protection type of zero.
Discard (TRIM) operations on such a configuration can fail.
The driver needs to ensure that a buffer with the meta-data is provided, as it is not possible to use the PRACT bit. However, for discard operation, I don't think we care, as the discard command does not need meta-data.
The following patch is not necessarily the right fix, but shows what I think the issue is.
Thanks.
drivers/block/nvme-core.c +1 -0
@@ -863,6 +863,7 @@ static int nvme_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,*/ if (ns && ns->ms && !blk_integrity_rq (req)) {if (!(ns->pi_type && ns->ms ==8 ) && + !(req->cmd_flags &REQ_DISCARD ) && req->cmd_type !=REQ_TYPE_DRV_PRIV ) { req->errors = -EFAULT ;blk_mq_complete_request (req);