Steps to reproduce: BLKRESETZONE zone 0 // force EIO pwrite(fd, buf, 4096, 4096); [issue more IO including zone ioctls] It will start failing randomly including IO to unrelated zones because of ->error "reuse". Trigger can be partition detection as well if test is not run immediately which is even more entertaining. The fix is of course to clear ->error where necessary. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan (SK hynix) <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/null_blk_main.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk_main.c @@ -605,6 +605,7 @@ static struct nullb_cmd *__alloc_cmd(struct nullb_queue *nq) if (tag != -1U) { cmd = &nq->cmds[tag]; cmd->tag = tag; + cmd->error = BLK_STS_OK; cmd->nq = nq; if (nq->dev->irqmode == NULL_IRQ_TIMER) { hrtimer_init(&cmd->timer, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, @@ -1385,6 +1386,7 @@ static blk_status_t null_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, cmd->timer.function = null_cmd_timer_expired; } cmd->rq = bd->rq; + cmd->error = BLK_STS_OK; cmd->nq = nq; blk_mq_start_request(bd->rq);