Hi This patch prevents dm-thin from sending discards to shared blocks. It is an upstream bug, so it should be sent upstream now (preferably before 3.5 comes out). Mikulas --- dm-thin: don't send discards to shared blocks When process_discard receives a partial discard that doesn't cover full block, it sends this discard down to that block. Unfortunatelly, the block can be shared and the discard would corrupt the other snapshots sharing this block. This patch detects block sharing and ends the discard with sucess when sending it to the shared block. The above change causes that if the device supports discard it can't be guaranteed that a discard request zeroes data. Therefore, we set ti->discard_zeroes_data_unsupported. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/md/dm-thin.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-3.5-rc6-fast/drivers/md/dm-thin.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.5-rc6-fast.orig/drivers/md/dm-thin.c 2012-07-16 21:47:46.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-3.5-rc6-fast/drivers/md/dm-thin.c 2012-07-17 00:35:25.000000000 +0200 @@ -1259,7 +1259,10 @@ static void process_discard(struct thin_ cell_release_singleton(cell, bio); cell_release_singleton(cell2, bio); - remap_and_issue(tc, bio, lookup_result.block); + if ((!lookup_result.shared) & pool->pf.discard_passdown) + remap_and_issue(tc, bio, lookup_result.block); + else + bio_endio(bio, 0); } break; @@ -2648,6 +2651,7 @@ static int thin_ctr(struct dm_target *ti if (tc->pool->pf.discard_enabled) { ti->discards_supported = 1; ti->num_discard_requests = 1; + ti->discard_zeroes_data_unsupported = 1; } dm_put(pool_md); -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel