When guests send misaligned discard requests, the block layer breaks them up into a misaligned head, an aligned main body, and a misaligned tail.
The file-posix block driver on Linux returns -EINVAL on misaligned discard requests. This causes bdrv_co_pdiscard() to fail and guests configured with werror=stop will pause. Add a special case for misaligned head/tail requests. Simply continue when EINVAL is encountered so that the aligned main body of the request can be completed and the guest is not paused. This is the best we can do when guest discard limits do not match the host discard limits. Fixes: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-86032 Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Hanna Czenczek <hre...@redhat.com> --- block/io.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/io.c b/block/io.c index 1ba8d1aeea..a0d0b31a3e 100644 --- a/block/io.c +++ b/block/io.c @@ -3180,7 +3180,11 @@ int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_pdiscard(BdrvChild *child, int64_t offset, } } if (ret && ret != -ENOTSUP) { - goto out; + if (ret == -EINVAL && (offset % align != 0 || num % align != 0)) { + /* Silently skip rejected unaligned head/tail requests */ + } else { + goto out; /* bail out */ + } } offset += num; -- 2.49.0
