Re: [PATCH 1/1] block: return BLK_STS_NOTSUPP if operation is not supported

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On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:33:22AM -0700, Ritika Srivastava wrote:
> If WRITE_ZERO/WRITE_SAME operation is not supported by the storage,
> blk_cloned_rq_check_limits() will return -EIO which will cause
> device-mapper to fail the paths.
> 
> Instead, if the queue limit is set to 0, return BLK_STS_NOTSUPP.
> BLK_STS_NOTSUPP will be ignored by device-mapper and will not fail the
> paths.

How do we end up calling blk_cloned_rq_check_limits when the operations
aren't actually supported?  The upper layers should make sure this never
happens, so you're just fixing symptoms here and not the root cause.



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