"nvme error-log" shows incorrect value in "status_field"

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3

Situation

On a system with NVMe drives 'nvme error-log /dev/nvmeXnY' prints the error log entries.
Each entry has a "status_field" and the output does not match the NVMe specs, for example:

# nvme error-log /dev/nvme4n1
[...]
status_field : 0xc00c(INTERNAL: The command was not completed successfully due to an internal error)

The expected result for the device would be:

# nvme error-log /dev/nvme4n1
[...]
status_field : 0x6006(INTERNAL: The command was not completed successfully due to an internal error)

Resolution

This is tentatively scheduled to be fixed in an upcoming maintenance update.
Customers affected by this issue can alternatively contact SUSE Technical Support to request a PTF (temporary fix).

Cause

The phase tag bit was erroneously included in the status_field value.

Status

Reported to Engineering

Additional Information

SLES15-SP4 includes nvme-cli 2.0, which already contains the patch.

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