By completing the request entirely in the driver we can remove the BLK_EH_HANDLED return value and thus the split responsibility between the driver and the block layer that has been causing trouble. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c index 6df5b0b1517a..beace13effe4 100644 --- a/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c +++ b/drivers/block/mtip32xx/mtip32xx.c @@ -3720,7 +3720,8 @@ static enum blk_eh_timer_return mtip_cmd_timeout(struct request *req, struct mtip_cmd *cmd = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(req); cmd->status = BLK_STS_TIMEOUT; - return BLK_EH_HANDLED; + blk_mq_complete_request(req); + return BLK_EH_DONE; } if (test_bit(req->tag, dd->port->cmds_to_issue)) -- 2.17.0