We should be returning normal negative error codes here. The "a" variables comes from &c->async_write_error which is a blk_status_t converted to a regular error code. In the current code, the blk_status_t gets propogated back to pool_create() and eventually results in an Oops. Fixes: 4e4cbee93d56 ("block: switch bios to blk_status_t") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c index 850ff6c67994..44f4a8ac95bd 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-bufio.c @@ -1258,8 +1258,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers_async); */ int dm_bufio_write_dirty_buffers(struct dm_bufio_client *c) { - blk_status_t a; - int f; + int a, f; unsigned long buffers_processed = 0; struct dm_buffer *b, *tmp; -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel