[PATCH 2/4] block: get rid of blk_status_to_{errno,str} inconsistency

Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Mar 2026 20:04:07 +0100
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-bcache,dev.linux.lists.dm-devel,dev.linux.lists.drbd-dev,net.sourceforge.lists.linux-f2fs-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-block,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Change blk_status_to_str() to be consistent with blk_status_to_errno()
and return "I/O" for undefined status codes.

With that, the fallback case in the blk_errors array can be removed with
no change in behavior.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]>
---
 block/blk-core.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 474700ffaa1c..a20042f15790 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -161,9 +161,6 @@ static const struct {
 	[BLK_STS_DURATION_LIMIT]	= { -ETIME, "duration limit exceeded" },
 
 	[BLK_STS_INVAL]		= { -EINVAL,	"invalid" },
-
-	/* everything else not covered above: */
-	[BLK_STS_IOERR]		= { -EIO,	"I/O" },
 };
 
 blk_status_t errno_to_blk_status(int errno)
@@ -194,7 +191,7 @@ const char *blk_status_to_str(blk_status_t status)
 	int idx = (__force int)status;
 
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(idx >= ARRAY_SIZE(blk_errors)))
-		return "<null>";
+		return "I/O";
 	return blk_errors[idx].name;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_status_to_str);
-- 
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