Hi, This patch-series is based on the initial patch posted by Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>. I've added one more patch to improve further print message. While debugging the driver and block layer this print message is very handy. Please consider this for 5.3. -Chaitanya Following is the sample error message with forced REQ_OP_WRITE failure from null_blk:- blk_update_request: I/O error, dev nullb0, sector 0 op 0x1:(write) flags 0x8800 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 Chaitanya Kulkarni (1): block: add more debug data to print_req_err Christoph Hellwig (1): block: improve print_req_error block/blk-core.c | 67 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 2.19.1