Re: [RFC v2 01/17] xfs: don't clobber bi_status in xfs_zone_alloc_and_submit

On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Function xfs_zone_alloc_and_submit() sets bio->bi_status and then it
> calls bio_io_error(), which overwrites that value again.  Fix that by
> completing the bio separately after setting bio->bi_status.

By the way, this bug makes me wonder if we shouldn't just get rid of
bio_io_error() in favour of bio_endio_status(bio, BLK_STS_IOERR). The
latter would be a lot more obvious.

Andreas

> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c
> index ef7a931ebde5..bd6f3ef095cb 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_zone_alloc.c
> @@ -897,6 +897,9 @@ xfs_zone_alloc_and_submit(
>
>  out_split_error:
>         ioend->io_bio.bi_status = errno_to_blk_status(PTR_ERR(split));
> +       bio_endio(&ioend->io_bio);
> +       return;
> +
>  out_error:
>         bio_io_error(&ioend->io_bio);
>  }
> --
> 2.52.0
>