loop: fix no-unmap write-zeroes request behavior
Currently, if the loop device receives a WRITE_ZEROES request, it asks the underlying filesystem to punch out the range. This behavior is correct if unmapping is allowed. However, a NOUNMAP request means that the caller doesn't want us to free the storage backing the range, so punching out the range is incorrect behavior. To satisfy a NOUNMAP | WRITE_ZEROES request, loop should ask the underlying filesystem to FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE, which is (according to the fallocate documentation) required to ensure that the entire range is backed by real storage, which suffices for our purposes. Fixes: 19372e27 ("loop: implement REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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