linux-kernel - Re: [patch] direct-io: propagate -ENOSPC errors

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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2016 09:02:08 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] direct-io: propagate -ENOSPC errors

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 05:10:00PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> dio_bio_complete turns all errors into -EIO.  This is historical,
> since you used to only get 1 bit precision for errors (BIO_UPTODATE).
> Now that we get actual error codes, we can return the appropriate
> code to userspace.  File systems seem to only propagate either EIO
> or ENOSPC, so I've followed suit in this patch.

Do we?  Just propagating some errors defintively seems odd.  Even
if we do we should have a central helper doing that mapping instead
of opencoding it in various places.