The new error message for such case looks like
[  172.809565] device offline error, dev sda, sector 
3138208 ...
which will not be confused with regular I/O error (BLK_STS_IOERR).
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220203192827.1370270-4-song@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
 
                 * power management commands.
                 */
                if (req && !(req->rq_flags & RQF_PM))
-                       return BLK_STS_IOERR;
+                       return BLK_STS_OFFLINE;
                return BLK_STS_OK;
        }
 }