block,scsi: fixup blk_get_request dead queue scenarios

The blk_get_request function may fail in low-memory conditions or during
device removal (even if __GFP_WAIT is set). To distinguish between these
errors, modify the blk_get_request call stack to return the appropriate
ERR_PTR. Verify that all callers check the return status and consider
IS_ERR instead of a simple NULL pointer check.

For consistency, make a similar change to the blk_mq_alloc_request leg
of blk_get_request.  It may fail if the queue is dead, or the caller was
unwilling to wait.

Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> [for pktdvd]
Acked-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> [for osd]
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/block/scsi_ioctl.c b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
index 29d056782833..a8b0d0208448 100644
--- a/block/scsi_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/scsi_ioctl.c
@@ -318,8 +318,8 @@ static int sg_io(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
 		at_head = 1;
 
 	rq = blk_get_request(q, writing ? WRITE : READ, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!rq)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+	if (IS_ERR(rq))
+		return PTR_ERR(rq);
 	blk_rq_set_block_pc(rq);
 
 	if (blk_fill_sghdr_rq(q, rq, hdr, mode)) {
@@ -448,8 +448,8 @@ int sg_scsi_ioctl(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode,
 	}
 
 	rq = blk_get_request(q, in_len ? WRITE : READ, __GFP_WAIT);
-	if (!rq) {
-		err = -ENODEV;
+	if (IS_ERR(rq)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(rq);
 		goto error_free_buffer;
 	}
 
@@ -539,8 +539,8 @@ static int __blk_send_generic(struct request_queue *q, struct gendisk *bd_disk,
 	int err;
 
 	rq = blk_get_request(q, WRITE, __GFP_WAIT);
-	if (!rq)
-		return -ENODEV;
+	if (IS_ERR(rq))
+		return PTR_ERR(rq);
 	blk_rq_set_block_pc(rq);
 	rq->timeout = BLK_DEFAULT_SG_TIMEOUT;
 	rq->cmd[0] = cmd;