Currently, drivers reports BLK_STS_IOERR for devices that are not full
online or being removed. This behavior could cause confusion for users,
as they are not really I/O errors from the device.
Solve this issue with a new state BLK_STS_OFFLINE, which reports "device
offline error" in dmesg instead of "I/O error".
EIO is intentionally kept to not change user visible return value.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
block/blk-core.c | 1 +
include/linux/blk_types.h | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 61f6a0dc4511..24035dd2eef1 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ static const struct {
[BLK_STS_RESOURCE] = { -ENOMEM, "kernel resource" },
[BLK_STS_DEV_RESOURCE] = { -EBUSY, "device resource" },
[BLK_STS_AGAIN] = { -EAGAIN, "nonblocking retry" },
+ [BLK_STS_OFFLINE] = { -EIO, "device offline" },
/* device mapper special case, should not leak out: */
[BLK_STS_DM_REQUEUE] = { -EREMCHG, "dm internal retry" },
diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
index fe065c394fff..5561e58d158a 100644
--- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
@@ -153,6 +153,13 @@ typedef u8 __bitwise blk_status_t;
*/
#define BLK_STS_ZONE_ACTIVE_RESOURCE ((__force blk_status_t)16)
+/*
+ * BLK_STS_OFFLINE is returned from the driver when the target device is offline
+ * or is being taken offline. This could help differentiate the case where a
+ * device is intentionally being shut down from a real I/O error.
+ */
+#define BLK_STS_OFFLINE ((__force blk_status_t)17)
+
/**
* blk_path_error - returns true if error may be path related
* @error: status the request was completed with
--
2.30.2
