s390/zcrypt: return EIO when msg retry limit reached
When a msg is retried because the lower ap layer returns -EAGAIN there is a retry limit (currently 10). When this limit is reached the last return code from the lower layer is returned, causing the userspace to get -1 on the ioctl with errno EAGAIN. This EAGAIN is misleading here. After 10 retry attempts the userspace should receive a clear failure indication like EINVAL or EIO or ENODEV. However, the reason why these retries all fail is unclear. On an invalid message EINVAL would be returned by the lower layer, and if devices go away or are not available an ENODEV is seen. So this patch now reworks the retry loops to return EIO to userspace when the retry limit is reached. Fixes: 91ffc519 ("s390/zcrypt: introduce msg tracking in zcrypt functions") Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
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