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 <pbonz...@redhat.com>
---
block/scsi_ioctl.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
index 55b6f15dac90..dda653ce7b24 100644
--- a/block/scsi_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
@@ -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;
--
2.4.3
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