[PATCH v3 2/2] block: better deal with the delayed not supported case in blk_cloned_rq_check_limits

[Ritika Srivastava <ritika.srivastava@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If WRITE_ZERO/WRITE_SAME operation is not supported by the storage,
blk_cloned_rq_check_limits() will return IO error 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.

Suggested-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ritika Srivastava <ritika.srivastava@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changelog:
v3: Formatting changes and subject updated from previous version
    -block: return BLK_STS_NOTSUPP if operation is not supported
v2: Document scenario and SCSI error encountered in a comment in
    blk_cloned_rq_check_limits().
---
 block/blk-core.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index d241ab8..ea6eae5 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -1223,10 +1223,21 @@ blk_qc_t submit_bio(struct bio *bio)
 static blk_status_t blk_cloned_rq_check_limits(struct request_queue *q,
 				      struct request *rq)
 {
-	if (blk_rq_sectors(rq) > blk_queue_get_max_sectors(q, req_op(rq))) {
+	unsigned int max_sectors = blk_queue_get_max_sectors(q, req_op(rq));
+
+	if (blk_rq_sectors(rq) > max_sectors) {
+		/*
+		 * At least SCSI device does not have a good way to return if
+		 * Write Same/Zero is actually supported. To detect this, first
+		 * try to issue one and if it fails clear the max sectors value.
+		 * If this occurs on the lower device, the right error code
+		 * needs to be propagated to upper layers.
+		 */
+		if (max_sectors == 0)
+			return BLK_STS_NOTSUPP;
+
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: over max size limit. (%u > %u)\n",
-			__func__, blk_rq_sectors(rq),
-			blk_queue_get_max_sectors(q, req_op(rq)));
+			__func__, blk_rq_sectors(rq), max_sectors);
 		return BLK_STS_IOERR;
 	}
 
@@ -1253,8 +1264,11 @@ static blk_status_t blk_cloned_rq_check_limits(struct request_queue *q,
  */
 blk_status_t blk_insert_cloned_request(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
 {
-	if (blk_cloned_rq_check_limits(q, rq))
-		return BLK_STS_IOERR;
+	blk_status_t ret;
+
+	ret = blk_cloned_rq_check_limits(q, rq);
+	if (ret != BLK_STS_OK)
+		return ret;
 
 	if (rq->rq_disk &&
 	    should_fail_request(&rq->rq_disk->part0, blk_rq_bytes(rq)))
-- 
1.8.3.1