From 8eaaf66d41adf7b9b31486f03d93de3a1013e28d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 10:05:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] pmem: return EIO on read_pmem() failure [ Upstream commit d47d1d27fd6206c18806440f6ebddf51a806be4f ] The read_pmem() function uses memcpy_mcsafe() on x86 where an EFAULT error code indicates a failed read. Block I/O should use EIO to indicate failure. Other pmem code paths (like bad blocks) already use EIO so let's be consistent. This fixes compatibility with consumers like btrfs that try to parse the specific error code rather than treat all errors the same. Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c index b480859..3456f53 100644 --- a/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c +++ b/drivers/nvdimm/pmem.c @@ -87,7 +87,9 @@ static int read_pmem(struct page *page, unsigned int off, rc = memcpy_from_pmem(mem + off, pmem_addr, len); kunmap_atomic(mem); - return rc; + if (rc) + return -EIO; + return 0; } static int pmem_do_bvec(struct pmem_device *pmem, struct page *page, -- 2.7.4