diff --git a/block/block-backend.c b/block/block-backend.c
index 7b1ec5071b..dc0cd57724 100644
--- a/block/block-backend.c
+++ b/block/block-backend.c
@@ -325,6 +325,9 @@ BlockBackend *blk_new(uint64_t perm, uint64_t shared_perm)
     blk->shared_perm = shared_perm;
     blk_set_enable_write_cache(blk, true);
 
+    blk->on_read_error = BLOCKDEV_ON_ERROR_REPORT;
+    blk->on_write_error = BLOCKDEV_ON_ERROR_ENOSPC;
+
     block_acct_init(&blk->stats);
 
     notifier_list_init(&blk->remove_bs_notifiers);
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/067.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/067.out
index 2e71cff3ce..b10c71db03 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/067.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/067.out
@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ Testing: -device virtio-scsi -device scsi-cd,id=cd0
 {
     "return": [
         {
+            "io-status": "ok",
             "device": "",
             "locked": false,
             "removable": true,