block,scsi: fixup blk_get_request dead queue scenarios

The blk_get_request function may fail in low-memory conditions or during
device removal (even if __GFP_WAIT is set). To distinguish between these
errors, modify the blk_get_request call stack to return the appropriate
ERR_PTR. Verify that all callers check the return status and consider
IS_ERR instead of a simple NULL pointer check.

For consistency, make a similar change to the blk_mq_alloc_request leg
of blk_get_request.  It may fail if the queue is dead, or the caller was
unwilling to wait.

Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> [for pktdvd]
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> [for osd]
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 5189cb1e478a..940aa8a34b70 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -218,9 +218,11 @@ struct request *blk_mq_alloc_request(struct request_queue *q, int rw, gfp_t gfp,
 	struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx;
 	struct request *rq;
 	struct blk_mq_alloc_data alloc_data;
+	int ret;
 
-	if (blk_mq_queue_enter(q))
-		return NULL;
+	ret = blk_mq_queue_enter(q);
+	if (ret)
+		return ERR_PTR(ret);
 
 	ctx = blk_mq_get_ctx(q);
 	hctx = q->mq_ops->map_queue(q, ctx->cpu);
@@ -240,6 +242,8 @@ struct request *blk_mq_alloc_request(struct request_queue *q, int rw, gfp_t gfp,
 		ctx = alloc_data.ctx;
 	}
 	blk_mq_put_ctx(ctx);
+	if (!rq)
+		return ERR_PTR(-EWOULDBLOCK);
 	return rq;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_mq_alloc_request);