It may be useful to know in the client that a connection timed out. The current code returns success for a timeout.
This patch reports the error code -ETIMEDOUT for a timeout. Signed-off-by: Markus Pargmann <m...@pengutronix.de> --- drivers/block/nbd.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 88762f640527..0ba3149c48bb 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ struct nbd_device { int blksize; loff_t bytesize; int xmit_timeout; + bool timedout; bool disconnect; /* a disconnect has been requested by user */ struct timer_list timeout_timer; @@ -154,10 +155,9 @@ static void nbd_xmit_timeout(unsigned long arg) if (list_empty(&nbd->queue_head)) return; - nbd->disconnect = true; - spin_lock_irqsave(&nbd->sock_lock, flags); + nbd->timedout = true; if (nbd->sock) kernel_sock_shutdown(nbd->sock, SHUT_RDWR); @@ -754,7 +754,10 @@ static int __nbd_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct nbd_device *nbd, if (max_part > 0) blkdev_reread_part(bdev); if (nbd->disconnect) /* user requested, ignore socket errors */ - return 0; + error = 0; + if (nbd->timedout) + error = -ETIMEDOUT; + return error; } -- 2.6.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/