Re: [PATCH] libnvdimm, btt: fix btt_rw_page not returning errors

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Jun 29 2017 - 21:33:02 EST


On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> btt_rw_page was not propagating errors frm btt_do_bvec, resulting in any
> IO errors via the rw_page path going unnoticed. the pmem driver recently
> fixed this in e10624f pmem: fail io-requests to known bad blocks
> but same problem in BTT went neglected.
>
> Fixes: 5212e11 nd_btt: atomic sector updates
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/nvdimm/btt.c | 9 ++++++---
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c b/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
> index 7ca11df..4e56e72 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
> @@ -1248,10 +1248,13 @@ static int btt_rw_page(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
> struct page *page, bool is_write)
> {
> struct btt *btt = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
> + int rc;
>
> - btt_do_bvec(btt, NULL, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0, is_write, sector);
> - page_endio(page, is_write, 0);
> - return 0;
> + rc = btt_do_bvec(btt, NULL, page, PAGE_SIZE, 0, is_write, sector);
> + if (rc == 0)
> + page_endio(page, is_write, 0);
> +
> + return rc;
> }

Looks obviously correct, applied.