block: add a bi_error field to struct bio

Currently we have two different ways to signal an I/O error on a BIO:

 (1) by clearing the BIO_UPTODATE flag
 (2) by returning a Linux errno value to the bi_end_io callback

The first one has the drawback of only communicating a single possible
error (-EIO), and the second one has the drawback of not beeing persistent
when bios are queued up, and are not passed along from child to parent
bio in the ever more popular chaining scenario.  Having both mechanisms
available has the additional drawback of utterly confusing driver authors
and introducing bugs where various I/O submitters only deal with one of
them, and the others have to add boilerplate code to deal with both kinds
of error returns.

So add a new bi_error field to store an errno value directly in struct
bio and remove the existing mechanisms to clean all this up.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/mpage.c b/fs/mpage.c
index ca0244b69de8..abac9361b3f1 100644
--- a/fs/mpage.c
+++ b/fs/mpage.c
@@ -42,14 +42,14 @@
  * status of that page is hard.  See end_buffer_async_read() for the details.
  * There is no point in duplicating all that complexity.
  */
-static void mpage_end_io(struct bio *bio, int err)
+static void mpage_end_io(struct bio *bio)
 {
 	struct bio_vec *bv;
 	int i;
 
 	bio_for_each_segment_all(bv, bio, i) {
 		struct page *page = bv->bv_page;
-		page_endio(page, bio_data_dir(bio), err);
+		page_endio(page, bio_data_dir(bio), bio->bi_error);
 	}
 
 	bio_put(bio);