The transition to LIVE state should not fail in case of a new controller.
Moving to DELETING state before nvme_tcp_create_ctrl() allocates all the
resources may leads to NULL dereference at teardown flow (e.g., IO tagset,
admin_q, connect_q).
Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
        }
 
        if (!nvme_change_ctrl_state(ctrl, NVME_CTRL_LIVE)) {
-               /* state change failure is ok if we're in DELETING state */
+               /*
+                * state change failure is ok if we're in DELETING state,
+                * unless we're during creation of a new controller to
+                * avoid races with teardown flow.
+                */
                WARN_ON_ONCE(ctrl->state != NVME_CTRL_DELETING);
+               WARN_ON_ONCE(new);
                ret = -EINVAL;
                goto destroy_io;
        }