Re: Patch "nvme-fabrics: protect against module unload during create_ctrl" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

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On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 01:37:11PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
> > --- a/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c
> > +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c
> > @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvmf_should_reconnect)
> >    */
> >   int nvmf_register_transport(struct nvmf_transport_ops *ops)
> >   {
> > -	if (!ops->create_ctrl)
> > +	if (!ops->create_ctrl || !ops->module)
> >   		return -EINVAL;
> >   	down_write(&nvmf_transports_rwsem);
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I think that this part broke builtin compilation of nvme over fabrics
> code.
> 
> This was later fixed by Christoph in:
> --
> commit 5a1e59533380a3fd04593e4ab2d4633ebf7745c1
> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Feb 22 07:24:08 2018 -0800
> 
>     nvme-fabrics: don't check for non-NULL module in nvmf_register_transport
> 
>     THIS_MODULE evaluates to NULL when used from code built into the kernel,
>     thus breaking built-in transport modules.  Remove the bogus check.
> 
>     Fixes: 0de5cd36 ("nvme-fabrics: protect against module unload during
> create_ctrl")
>     Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c b/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c
> index 5dd4ceefed8f..a1c58e35075e 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/host/fabrics.c
> @@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvmf_should_reconnect);
>   */
>  int nvmf_register_transport(struct nvmf_transport_ops *ops)
>  {
> -       if (!ops->create_ctrl || !ops->module)
> +       if (!ops->create_ctrl)
>                 return -EINVAL;
> 
>         down_write(&nvmf_transports_rwsem);
> --
> 
> So I'd suggest taking that as well.

Many thanks for letting me know, I've now queued up that patch as well.

greg k-h



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