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, 16 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
index 86dbbc737402..83cc52eaf56d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c
@@ -545,7 +545,8 @@ static void dmio_complete(unsigned long error, void *context)
 {
 	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 @@ static void use_dmio(struct dm_buffer *b, int rw, sector_t block,
 	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 @@ static void inline_endio(struct bio *bio, int error)
 	 */
 	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 @@ static void submit_io(struct dm_buffer *b, int rw, sector_t block,
  * 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 @@ found_buffer:
  * 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));