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>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c b/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c
index 6d88d24e6cce..5a9982f5d5d6 100644
--- a/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c
+++ b/drivers/target/target_core_iblock.c
@@ -306,20 +306,13 @@ static void iblock_complete_cmd(struct se_cmd *cmd)
 	kfree(ibr);
 }
 
-static void iblock_bio_done(struct bio *bio, int err)
+static void iblock_bio_done(struct bio *bio)
 {
 	struct se_cmd *cmd = bio->bi_private;
 	struct iblock_req *ibr = cmd->priv;
 
-	/*
-	 * Set -EIO if !BIO_UPTODATE and the passed is still err=0
-	 */
-	if (!test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE, &bio->bi_flags) && !err)
-		err = -EIO;
-
-	if (err != 0) {
-		pr_err("test_bit(BIO_UPTODATE) failed for bio: %p,"
-			" err: %d\n", bio, err);
+	if (bio->bi_error) {
+		pr_err("bio error: %p,  err: %d\n", bio, bio->bi_error);
 		/*
 		 * Bump the ib_bio_err_cnt and release bio.
 		 */
@@ -370,15 +363,15 @@ static void iblock_submit_bios(struct bio_list *list, int rw)
 	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
 }
 
-static void iblock_end_io_flush(struct bio *bio, int err)
+static void iblock_end_io_flush(struct bio *bio)
 {
 	struct se_cmd *cmd = bio->bi_private;
 
-	if (err)
-		pr_err("IBLOCK: cache flush failed: %d\n", err);
+	if (bio->bi_error)
+		pr_err("IBLOCK: cache flush failed: %d\n", bio->bi_error);
 
 	if (cmd) {
-		if (err)
+		if (bio->bi_error)
 			target_complete_cmd(cmd, SAM_STAT_CHECK_CONDITION);
 		else
 			target_complete_cmd(cmd, SAM_STAT_GOOD);