From: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Fam Zheng <fam@euphon.net>,
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Hanna Reitz <hreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Li <faithilikerun@gmail.com>,
Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>,
Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [PATCH 07/12] block: reject zone appends that are not a multiple of the sector size
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:57:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260825205748.679968-8-cassel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260825205748.679968-1-cassel@kernel.org>
Zone write pointers are tracked and reported in units of
BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE, so an append whose data size is not a multiple of it
would leave a write pointer that cannot be represented, neither in a
BlockZoneDescriptor nor in the virtio and NVMe zone reports derived from
one.
Nothing states that invariant. file-posix, the only driver that carries
out an append itself, does enforce it, but only as a side effect of
checking each iovec against BlockLimits.write_granularity, which is never
smaller than the sector size. That conflates two constraints: the sector
granularity holds for every driver, whereas write_granularity describes a
coarser requirement of the medium below a driver, and only a driver that
has such a medium should express it.
Check the invariant once in bdrv_co_zone_append(), so that it no longer
rests on a driver that happens to have a granularity of its own to
report.
This is a lower bound, not the alignment that a guest has to observe. The
block layer cannot know that one, because it also depends on the logical
block size the device is configured with, which is a property of the
frontend. The alignment that applies to a guest is the larger of the two,
and it is the frontend that reports it, that validates requests against
it, and that has to refuse a device whose write pointers do not satisfy
it.
Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <cassel@kernel.org>
---
block/io.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/block/io.c b/block/io.c
index a916b236c3..705dc73d76 100644
--- a/block/io.c
+++ b/block/io.c
@@ -3350,6 +3350,16 @@ int coroutine_fn bdrv_co_zone_append(BlockDriverState *bs, int64_t *offset,
return ret;
}
+ /*
+ * Zone write pointers are kept and reported in units of BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE,
+ * so an append that would leave a write pointer at a finer granularity
+ * cannot be represented. Drivers may impose a coarser granularity of their
+ * own, see BlockLimits.write_granularity.
+ */
+ if (!QEMU_IS_ALIGNED(qiov->size, BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE)) {
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
bdrv_inc_in_flight(bs);
if (!drv || !drv->bdrv_co_zone_append || bs->bl.zoned == BLK_Z_NONE) {
co.ret = -ENOTSUP;
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-25 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-25 20:57 [PATCH 00/12] block: fix the zone write granularity and the zone append limit Niklas Cassel
2026-08-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 01/12] block: widen BlockLimits.zone_size to uint64_t Niklas Cassel
2026-08-28 5:58 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-08-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 02/12] virtio-blk: do not merge writes across a zone boundary Niklas Cassel
2026-08-28 6:02 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-08-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 03/12] file-posix: fix zone write granularity assignment for zoned block devices Niklas Cassel
2026-08-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 04/12] virtio-blk: report the effective zone write granularity Niklas Cassel
2026-08-28 6:03 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-08-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 05/12] virtio-blk: check the write granularity of writes to sequential zones Niklas Cassel
2026-08-28 6:07 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-08-28 6:09 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-08-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 06/12] hw/block: reject a zoned device whose write pointers are unaddressable Niklas Cassel
2026-08-28 6:12 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-08-25 20:57 ` Niklas Cassel [this message]
2026-08-28 6:13 ` [PATCH 07/12] block: reject zone appends that are not a multiple of the sector size Damien Le Moal
2026-08-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 08/12] file-posix: remove the zone append write granularity check Niklas Cassel
2026-08-28 6:14 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-08-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 09/12] file-posix: base the zone append limit on the transfer limit Niklas Cassel
2026-08-28 6:17 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-08-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 10/12] virtio-blk: derive the maximum zone append size Niklas Cassel
2026-08-28 6:18 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-08-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 11/12] file-posix: reject a zone append past the device capacity Niklas Cassel
2026-08-28 6:18 ` Damien Le Moal
2026-08-25 20:57 ` [PATCH 12/12] file-posix: reject a zone append to a full or conventional zone Niklas Cassel
2026-08-28 6:19 ` Damien Le Moal
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