On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 09:12:07PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c
> index 3086da5..3555ba8 100644
> --- a/drivers/md/dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c
> @@ -808,7 +808,9 @@ static void dec_pending(struct dm_io *io, int error)
> } else {
> /* done with normal IO or empty flush */
> trace_block_bio_complete(md->queue, bio, io_error);
> - bio->bi_error = io_error;
> + /* don't overwrite or clear existing errors */
> + if (!bio->bi_error)
> + bio->bi_error = io_error;
> bio_endio(bio);
> }
> }
>
> but Mike was a little uneasy, not knowing for sure how we got here to
> overwrite this bio's error (hopefully I'm representing his concerns
> fairly and correctly).
FYI, what we do both in the XFS buffer cache and the new direct I/O
code is to use a
cmpxchg(&dio->error, 0, ret);
in a similar situation, which should work here, too.
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