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Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives

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On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 04:06:31PM -0700, Jethro Beekman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If an NVMe drive is locked with ATA Security, most commands sent to the drive 
> will fail. This includes commands sent by the kernel upon discovery to probe 
> for partitions. The failing happens in such a way that trying to do anything 
> with the drive (e.g. sending an unlock command; unloading the nvme module) is 
> basically impossible with the high default command timeout.

Do you have any spec that defines this ATA security protocol and how
it applies to NVMe?  The NVMe spec just referes to SPC4 for security
protocols, and I haven't been able to find a reference to an ATA
security protocol in it either, but I haven't tried hard yet.

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[PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Jethro Beekman <kernel@jbeekman.nl> - 2016-06-20 01:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Sagi Grimberg <sagigrim@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 09:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-06-24 10:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> - 2016-06-20 17:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Jethro Beekman <kernel@jbeekman.nl> - 2016-06-20 21:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> - 2016-06-21 01:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Jethro Beekman <kernel@jbeekman.nl> - 2016-06-21 06:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-06-24 09:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-06-24 10:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-06-24 09:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Jethro Beekman <kernel@jbeekman.nl> - 2016-06-24 09:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/3] nvme: Don't add namespaces for locked drives Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2016-06-24 10:10 +0200

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