ndctl/namespace: Skip seed namespaces when processing all namespaces. BZ: Brew: commit 9bd2994f91bb77604521cbe09a76a51d092c2cfd Author: Michal Suchanek Date: Wed Jan 6 14:17:40 2021 +0100 ndctl/namespace: Skip seed namespaces when processing all namespaces. The seed namespaces are exposed by the kernel but most operations are not valid on seed namespaces. When processing all namespaces the user gets confusing errors from ndctl trying to process seed namespaces. The kernel does not provide any way to tell that a namspace is seed namespace but skipping namespaces with zero size and UUID is a good heuristic. The user can still specify the namespace by name directly in case processing it is desirable. Link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11473645/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e55ae2c17b8b9c3288491efe6214338118e8c5ae.1609938610.git.msuchanek@suse.de Fixes: #41 Tested-by: Harish Sriram Reviewed-by: Santosh S Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma diff --git a/ndctl/namespace.c b/ndctl/namespace.c index 1e8a2cd..5e65ed5 100644 --- a/ndctl/namespace.c +++ b/ndctl/namespace.c @@ -2210,9 +2210,19 @@ static int do_xaction_namespace(const char *namespace, ndctl_namespace_foreach_safe(region, ndns, _n) { ndns_name = ndctl_namespace_get_devname(ndns); - if (strcmp(namespace, "all") != 0 - && strcmp(namespace, ndns_name) != 0) - continue; + if (strcmp(namespace, "all") == 0) { + static const uuid_t zero_uuid; + uuid_t uuid; + + ndctl_namespace_get_uuid(ndns, uuid); + if (!ndctl_namespace_get_size(ndns) && + !memcmp(uuid, zero_uuid, sizeof(uuid_t))) + continue; + } else { + if (strcmp(namespace, ndns_name) != 0) + continue; + } + switch (action) { case ACTION_DISABLE: rc = ndctl_namespace_disable_safe(ndns);