Re: [PATCH 3/3] iomap: don't lose a failed direct I/O bio's error when zeroing the tail

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 11:10:13AM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > > Why ssize_t?  iomap_dio_zero returns int, right?
> > 
> > More importantly iomap_dio_zero can only return an error for a
> > logic bomb assert using WARN_ON.  I'd suggest to simply return without
> > an error there and remove the handling of the iomap_dio_zero return
> > value entirely, as it clearly casues more harm than it helps.
> 
> Agreed, that's cleaner than retyping the local.  I'll drop the
> zerror/ret handling entirely for v2 and just call iomap_dio_zero()
> without capturing its return.

Please drop the return value from iomap_dio_zero entirely.