Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] block: fix detect-zeroes= with BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF

[Eric Blake]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 04:54:12PM -0500, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> When a write request is converted into a write zeroes request by the
> detect-zeroes= feature, it is no longer associated with an I/O buffer.
> The BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF flag doesn't make sense without an I/O
> buffer and must be cleared because bdrv_co_do_pwrite_zeroes() fails with
> -EINVAL when it's set.
> 
> Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com> bisected and diagnosed this QEMU 7.2
> regression where writes containing zeroes to a blockdev with
> discard=unmap,detect-zeroes=unmap fail.
> 
> Buglink: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1404
> Fixes: e8b6535533be ("block: add BDRV_REQ_REGISTERED_BUF request flag")
> Tested-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/io.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

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