[dm-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] block: reinstate early return of -EOPNOTSUPP from blkdev_issue_discard

[Mike Snitzer]

Commit 38f25255330 ("block: add __blkdev_issue_discard") incorrectly
disallowed the early return of -EOPNOTSUPP if the device doesn't support
discard (or secure discard).  This early return of -EOPNOTSUPP has
always been part of blkdev_issue_discard() interface so there isn't a
good reason to break that behaviour -- especially when it can be easily
reinstated.

The nuance of allowing early return of -EOPNOTSUPP vs disallowing late
return of -EOPNOTSUPP is: if the overall device never advertised support
for discards and one is issued to the device it is beneficial to inform
the caller that discards are not supported via -EOPNOTSUPP.  But if a
device advertises discard support it means that at least a subset of the
device does have discard support -- but it could be that discards issued
to some regions of a stacked device will not be supported.  In that case
the late return of -EOPNOTSUPP must be disallowed.

Fixes: 38f25255330 ("block: add __blkdev_issue_discard")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com>
---
 block/blk-lib.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-lib.c b/block/blk-lib.c
index ccbce2b..23d7f30 100644
--- a/block/blk-lib.c
+++ b/block/blk-lib.c
@@ -109,11 +109,14 @@ int blkdev_issue_discard(struct block_device *bdev, sector_t sector,
 	blk_start_plug(&plug);
 	ret = __blkdev_issue_discard(bdev, sector, nr_sects, gfp_mask, type,
 			&bio);
-	if (!ret && bio)
+	if (!ret && bio) {
 		ret = submit_bio_wait(type, bio);
+		if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
+			ret = 0;
+	}
 	blk_finish_plug(&plug);
 
-	return ret != -EOPNOTSUPP ? ret : 0;
+	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_issue_discard);
 
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