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authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2023-09-06 14:04:57 +0200
committerDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2023-09-19 10:23:21 +0200
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parent9e6b9f379130c77a08c8ea67a09fc90cb30f8d09 (diff)
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softmmu/physmem: Bail out early in ram_block_discard_range() with readonly files
fallocate() will fail, let's print a nicer error message.

Message-ID: <20230906120503.359863-6-david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--softmmu/physmem.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/softmmu/physmem.c b/softmmu/physmem.c
index 88482bd32a..c520c2ac55 100644
--- a/softmmu/physmem.c
+++ b/softmmu/physmem.c
@@ -3482,6 +3482,16 @@ int ram_block_discard_range(RAMBlock *rb, uint64_t start, size_t length)
              */
 #ifdef CONFIG_FALLOCATE_PUNCH_HOLE
             /*
+             * fallocate() will fail with readonly files. Let's print a
+             * proper error message.
+             */
+            if (rb->flags & RAM_READONLY_FD) {
+                error_report("ram_block_discard_range: Discarding RAM"
+                             " with readonly files is not supported");
+                goto err;
+
+            }
+            /*
              * We'll discard data from the actual file, even though we only
              * have a MAP_PRIVATE mapping, possibly messing with other
              * MAP_PRIVATE/MAP_SHARED mappings. There is no easy way to