It's all about designing software. The callee is the one encountering the error, not any of the caller up in the stack trace. Somewhere in the call chain, there's a need to take a decision.

So you, as the developer, decide where that needs to be. It may be at the callee level (like an exponential retry) or at the caller level (display an error message). In the later case, you may want to add more information to the error data block, so that the caller my handle the situation appropriately. So if you want tracing, you just need to wrap the error and returns it. Then your logging code have all the information it needs: like

  [error saving file [permission error [can't access file]]]

instead of just [syscall.EINVAL].