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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 01:10:11PM -0600, Keith Busch wrote:
> > As the check has been relaxed at startup for multiple disks with
> > duplicate NSIDs with commit ac522fc6c3165 ("nvme: don't reject
> > probe due to duplicate IDs for single-ported PCIe devices") also
> > relax the check that runs on resume for NSIDs and mark them bogus
> > if this occurs on resume.
> 
> How could the driver tell the difference between the device needing a
> quirk compared to a rapid delete-create-attach namespace sequence?
> Proceeding with the namespace now may get dirty writes intended for the
> previous namespace, corrupting the new one.
> 
> The commit you mentioned tries to constrain allowing duplication where
> we can reasonably assume the quirk is needed. If we need to do similiar
> for this condition, one possible constraint might be that the device
> doesn't report OACS bit 3 (Namespace Management).

Yes, this patch as-is looks really dangerous.  I don't think we should
just ignore the fact that IDs change when queried again.