From: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx> commit 2e896d89510f23927ec393bee1e0570db3d5a6c6 upstream. Conventional zones do not have a write pointer and so cannot accept zone append writes. Make sure to fail any zone append write command issued to a conventional zone. Reported-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@xxxxxxx> Fixes: e0489ed5daeb ("null_blk: Support REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk_zoned.c @@ -339,8 +339,11 @@ static blk_status_t null_zone_write(stru trace_nullb_zone_op(cmd, zno, zone->cond); - if (zone->type == BLK_ZONE_TYPE_CONVENTIONAL) + if (zone->type == BLK_ZONE_TYPE_CONVENTIONAL) { + if (append) + return BLK_STS_IOERR; return null_process_cmd(cmd, REQ_OP_WRITE, sector, nr_sectors); + } null_lock_zone(dev, zno);