From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> Currently, if the loop device receives a WRITE_ZEROES request, it asks the underlying filesystem to punch out the range. This behavior is correct if unmapping is allowed. However, a NOUNMAP request means that the caller forbids us from freeing the storage backing the range, so punching out the range is incorrect behavior. To satisfy a NOUNMAP | WRITE_ZEROES request, loop should ask the underlying filesystem to FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE, which is (according to the fallocate documentation) required to ensure that the entire range is backed by real storage, which suffices for our purposes. Fixes: 19372e2769179dd ("loop: implement REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: reorganize a little according to hch feedback --- drivers/block/loop.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index f6f77eaa7217..4943d0c5c61c 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -441,6 +441,28 @@ static int lo_discard(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq, loff_t pos) return ret; } +static int lo_zeroout(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq, loff_t pos) +{ + struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file; + int mode = FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE; + int ret; + + /* + * Ask the fs to zero out the blocks, which is supposed to result in + * space being allocated to the file. + */ + if (!file->f_op->fallocate) { + ret = -EOPNOTSUPP; + goto out; + } + + ret = file->f_op->fallocate(file, mode, pos, blk_rq_bytes(rq)); + if (unlikely(ret && ret != -EINVAL && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP)) + ret = -EIO; + out: + return ret; +} + static int lo_req_flush(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq) { struct file *file = lo->lo_backing_file; @@ -596,8 +618,15 @@ static int do_req_filebacked(struct loop_device *lo, struct request *rq) switch (req_op(rq)) { case REQ_OP_FLUSH: return lo_req_flush(lo, rq); - case REQ_OP_DISCARD: case REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES: + /* + * If the caller doesn't want deallocation, call zeroout to + * write zeroes the range. Otherwise, punch them out. + */ + if (rq->cmd_flags & REQ_NOUNMAP) + return lo_zeroout(lo, rq, pos); + /* fall through */ + case REQ_OP_DISCARD: return lo_discard(lo, rq, pos); case REQ_OP_WRITE: if (lo->transfer)