The new error message for such case looks like [ 172.809565] device offline error, dev sda, sector 3138208 ... which will not be confused with regular I/O error (BLK_STS_IOERR). Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c index 0a70aa763a96..e30bc51578e9 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c @@ -1276,7 +1276,7 @@ scsi_device_state_check(struct scsi_device *sdev, struct request *req) * power management commands. */ if (req && !(req->rq_flags & RQF_PM)) - return BLK_STS_IOERR; + return BLK_STS_OFFLINE; return BLK_STS_OK; } } -- 2.30.2
