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-rw-r--r--block/qcow2-cluster.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/block/qcow2-cluster.c b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
index 4b5fc8c4a7..a677ba9f5c 100644
--- a/block/qcow2-cluster.c
+++ b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
@@ -1797,8 +1797,15 @@ int qcow2_cluster_zeroize(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t offset,
assert(QEMU_IS_ALIGNED(end_offset, s->cluster_size) ||
end_offset >= bs->total_sectors << BDRV_SECTOR_BITS);
- /* The zero flag is only supported by version 3 and newer */
+ /*
+ * The zero flag is only supported by version 3 and newer. However, if we
+ * have no backing file, we can resort to discard in version 2.
+ */
if (s->qcow_version < 3) {
+ if (!bs->backing) {
+ return qcow2_cluster_discard(bs, offset, bytes,
+ QCOW2_DISCARD_REQUEST, false);
+ }
return -ENOTSUP;
}