Am 23.11.2016 um 12:40 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> On 11/23/2016 04:39 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > The guest sends discard requests as u64 sector/count pairs, but the
> > block layer operates internally with s64/s32 pairs. The conversion
> > leads to IO errors in the guest, the discard request is not processed.
> > 
> >   domU.cfg:
> >   'vdev=xvda, format=qcow2, backendtype=qdisk, target=/x.qcow2'
> >   domU:
> >   mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/xvda
> >   Discarding device blocks: failed - Input/output error
> > 
> > Fix this by splitting the request into chunks of BDRV_REQUEST_MAX_SECTORS.
> > Add input range checking to avoid overflow.
> > 
> > Fixes f313520 ("xen_disk: add discard support")
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <o...@aepfle.de>
> > ---
> 
> Qualifies as a bug fix, so requesting 2.8 inclusion.
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

Stefano, are you going to merge this or should I take a look?

Kevin

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