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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Anton Nefedov <anton.nefedov@virtuozzo.com>,
	qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-stable@nongnu.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	"Denis V . Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.2 v2 3/3] block/file-posix: Let post-EOF fallocate serialize
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 08:27:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191114162751.GA29976@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191101152510.11719-4-mreitz@redhat.com>

On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 04:25:10PM +0100, Max Reitz wrote:
> The XFS kernel driver has a bug that may cause data corruption for qcow2
> images as of qemu commit c8bb23cbdbe32f.  We can work around it by
> treating post-EOF fallocates as serializing up until infinity (INT64_MAX
> in practice).

This has been fixed in the kernel a while ago.  I don't think it makes
sense to work around it in qemu.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-14 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-01 15:25 [PATCH for-4.2 v2 0/3] qcow2: Fix data corruption on XFS Max Reitz
2019-11-01 15:25 ` [PATCH for-4.2 v2 1/3] block: Make wait/mark serialising requests public Max Reitz
2019-11-01 15:25 ` [PATCH for-4.2 v2 2/3] block: Add bdrv_co_get_self_request() Max Reitz
2019-11-01 15:25 ` [PATCH for-4.2 v2 3/3] block/file-posix: Let post-EOF fallocate serialize Max Reitz
2019-11-14 16:27   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-11-14 17:15     ` Max Reitz
2019-11-14 17:16       ` Max Reitz
2020-06-02 14:43   ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-06-02 15:46     ` Max Reitz
2020-06-02 16:16       ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-06-02 16:38         ` Max Reitz
2020-06-02 17:01           ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-06-02 17:08             ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-08-22 17:03   ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-08-22 17:04     ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-08-26  8:23       ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2020-08-26 11:20         ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2019-11-01 15:48 ` [PATCH for-4.2 v2 0/3] qcow2: Fix data corruption on XFS no-reply
2019-11-04  8:29   ` Max Reitz
2019-11-04  9:09 ` Max Reitz
2019-11-04  9:45 ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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