Commit 2fc48021f4afdd109b9e52b6eef5db89ca80bac7 ("dm persistent
metadata: add space map threshold callback") introduced a regression
to the metadata block allocation path that resulted in errors being
ignored. This regression was uncovered by running the following
device-mapper-test-suite test:
dmtest run --suite thin-provisioning -n /exhausting_metadata_space_causes_fail_mode/
The ignored error codes in sm_metadata_new_block() could crash the
kernel through use of either the dm-thin or dm-cache targets, e.g.: