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block: fix bogus EFAULT error from SG_IO ioctl
authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Fri, 26 Jun 2015 09:44:46 +0000 (11:44 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:43:34 +0000 (11:43 -0600)
Whenever blk_fill_sghdr_rq fails, its errno code is ignored and changed to
EFAULT.  This can cause very confusing errors:

  $ sg_persist -k /dev/sda
  persistent reservation in: pass through os error: Bad address

The fix is trivial, just propagate the return value from
blk_fill_sghdr_rq.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
block/scsi_ioctl.c

index 55b6f15dac900af77a5ad7038cd98f3133d816a8..dda653ce7b24cfb959f668bdb4a676900ed7637d 100644 (file)
@@ -326,8 +326,8 @@ static int sg_io(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
                        goto out_put_request;
        }
 
-       ret = -EFAULT;
-       if (blk_fill_sghdr_rq(q, rq, hdr, mode))
+       ret = blk_fill_sghdr_rq(q, rq, hdr, mode);
+       if (ret < 0)
                goto out_free_cdb;
 
        ret = 0;