improvement to error handling

aws/aws.go

@@ -957,7 +957,12 @@ func (s *awsOps) AreVolumesReadyToExpand(volumeIDs []*string) (bool, error) {
 		if isErrorModificationNotFound(err) {
 			return true, nil
 		}
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("unable to get modification states for aws volumes: %v", err)
+		// in the case of getting unclassified request failure, result of this checker may be bypassed
+		// to not block volume resize operation.
+		return false, &cloudops.ErrCloudProviderRequestFailure{
+			Request: "DescribeVolumesModifications",
+			Message: err.Error(),
+		}
 	}
 	states := describeOutput.VolumesModifications
 

errors.go

@@ -112,3 +112,15 @@ type ErrCurrentCapacityHigherThanDesired struct {
 func (e *ErrCurrentCapacityHigherThanDesired) Error() string {
 	return fmt.Sprintf("current capacity (%d) is higher than desired capacity: %d", e.Current, e.Desired)
 }
+
+// ErrCloudProviderRequestFailure is returned when an unknown API request failure occurred.
+type ErrCloudProviderRequestFailure struct {
+    // Request is the API function name
+	Request string
+    // Message is the error message returned by the cloud provider
+	Message string
+}
+
+func (e *ErrCloudProviderRequestFailure) Error() string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("Request %s returns %s", e.Request, e.Message)
+}