By completing the request entirely in the driver we can remove the BLK_EH_HANDLED return value and thus the split responsibility between the driver and the block layer that has been causing trouble. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 09d9959287fe..30a851b8a99c 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static enum blk_eh_timer_return nbd_xmit_timeout(struct request *req, if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&nbd->config_refs)) { cmd->status = BLK_STS_TIMEOUT; - return BLK_EH_HANDLED; + goto done; } config = nbd->config; @@ -338,8 +338,9 @@ static enum blk_eh_timer_return nbd_xmit_timeout(struct request *req, cmd->status = BLK_STS_IOERR; sock_shutdown(nbd); nbd_config_put(nbd); - - return BLK_EH_HANDLED; +done: + blk_mq_complete_request(req); + return BLK_EH_DONE; } /* -- 2.17.0