Right now we, are relying on the fact that when we attempt to actually do the discard, blkdev_issue_discar() returns -EOPNOTSUPP and the user is informed that the device does not support discard. However, in the case where the we do not hit any suitable free extent to trim in FITRIM code, it will finish without any error. This is very confusing, because it seems that FITRIM was successful even though the device does not actually supports discard. Solution: Check for the discard support before attempt to search for free extents. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c index eb3bc2f..25ba7c7 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c @@ -334,12 +334,16 @@ mext_out: case FITRIM: { struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb; + struct request_queue *q = bdev_get_queue(sb->s_bdev); struct fstrim_range range; int ret = 0; if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; + if (!blk_queue_discard(q)) + return -EOPNOTSUPP; + if (copy_from_user(&range, (struct fstrim_range *)arg, sizeof(range))) return -EFAULT; -- 1.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html