+/**
+ * blk_rq_err_bytes - determine number of bytes till the next failure boundary
+ * @rq: request to examine
+ *
+ * Description:
+ * A request could be merge of IOs which require different failure
+ * handling. This function determines the number of bytes which
+ * can be failed from the beginning of the request without
+ * crossing into area which need to be retried further.
+ *
+ * Return:
+ * The number of bytes to fail.
+ *
+ * Context:
+ * queue_lock must be held.
+ */
+unsigned int blk_rq_err_bytes(const struct request *rq)
+{
+ unsigned int ff = rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FAILFAST_MASK;
+ unsigned int bytes = 0;
+ struct bio *bio;
+
+ if (!(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_MIXED_MERGE))
+ return blk_rq_bytes(rq);
+
+ /*
+ * Currently the only 'mixing' which can happen is between
+ * different fastfail types. We can safely fail portions
+ * which have all the failfast bits that the first one has -
+ * the ones which are at least as eager to fail as the first
+ * one.
+ */
+ for (bio = rq->bio; bio; bio = bio->bi_next) {
+ if ((bio->bi_rw & ff) != ff)
+ break;
+ bytes += bio->bi_size;
+ }
+
+ /* this could lead to infinite loop */
+ BUG_ON(blk_rq_bytes(rq) && !bytes);
+ return bytes;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(blk_rq_err_bytes);
+