commit 4246a0b63bd8f56a1469b12eafeb875b1041a451
author Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Mon Jul 20 15:29:37 2015 +0200
committer Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Wed Jul 29 08:55:15 2015 -0600
tree 3281bb158d658ef7f208ad380c0ecee600a5ab5e
parent 0034af036554c39eefd14d835a8ec3496ac46712

block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

drivers/md/dm-bufio.c

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
index 86dbbc7..83cc52e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -545,7 +545,8 @@
 {
 	struct dm_buffer *b = context;
 
-	b->bio.bi_end_io(&b->bio, error ? -EIO : 0);
+	b->bio.bi_error = error ? -EIO : 0;
+	b->bio.bi_end_io(&b->bio);
 }
 
 static void use_dmio(struct dm_buffer *b, int rw, sector_t block,
@@ -575,13 +576,16 @@
 	b->bio.bi_end_io = end_io;
 
 	r = dm_io(&io_req, 1, &region, NULL);
-	if (r)
-		end_io(&b->bio, r);
+	if (r) {
+		b->bio.bi_error = r;
+		end_io(&b->bio);
+	}
 }
 
-static void inline_endio(struct bio *bio, int error)
+static void inline_endio(struct bio *bio)
 {
 	bio_end_io_t *end_fn = bio->bi_private;
+	int error = bio->bi_error;
 
 	/*
 	 * Reset the bio to free any attached resources
@@ -589,7 +593,8 @@
 	 */
 	bio_reset(bio);
 
-	end_fn(bio, error);
+	bio->bi_error = error;
+	end_fn(bio);
 }
 
 static void use_inline_bio(struct dm_buffer *b, int rw, sector_t block,
@@ -661,13 +666,14 @@
  * Set the error, clear B_WRITING bit and wake anyone who was waiting on
  * it.
  */
-static void write_endio(struct bio *bio, int error)
+static void write_endio(struct bio *bio)
 {
 	struct dm_buffer *b = container_of(bio, struct dm_buffer, bio);
 
-	b->write_error = error;
-	if (unlikely(error)) {
+	b->write_error = bio->bi_error;
+	if (unlikely(bio->bi_error)) {
 		struct dm_bufio_client *c = b->c;
+		int error = bio->bi_error;
 		(void)cmpxchg(&c->async_write_error, 0, error);
 	}
 
@@ -1026,11 +1032,11 @@
  * The endio routine for reading: set the error, clear the bit and wake up
  * anyone waiting on the buffer.
  */
-static void read_endio(struct bio *bio, int error)
+static void read_endio(struct bio *bio)
 {
 	struct dm_buffer *b = container_of(bio, struct dm_buffer, bio);
 
-	b->read_error = error;
+	b->read_error = bio->bi_error;
 
 	BUG_ON(!test_bit(B_READING, &b->state));