On 26.04.23 18:40, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
The existing code silently converts read operations with the
REQ_FUA bit set into write-barrier operations. This results in data
loss as the backend scribbles zeroes over the data instead of returning
it.

While the REQ_FUA bit doesn't make sense on a read operation, at least
one well-known out-of-tree kernel module does set it and since it
results in data loss, let's be safe here and only look at REQ_FUA for
writes.

Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerw...@citrix.com>

Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>


Juergen

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