aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/softmmu
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'softmmu')
-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