Random cleanup - this code was duplicated and it's not really specific
to md.

Also added the ability to return the actual error code.
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>