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block: reinstate early return of -EOPNOTSUPP from blkdev_issue_discard
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Commit 38f2525 ("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: 38f2525 ("block: add __blkdev_issue_discard")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Mike Snitzer authored and Jens Axboe committed May 5, 2016
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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions block/blk-lib.c
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Expand Up @@ -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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