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Demi Marie Obenour 80ea1fe62d block: Allow (and ignore) FLUSH requests on read-only devices
OVMF sends FLUSH requests to read-only virtio-block devices.  Refusing
these requests prevents OVMF from accessing the EFI System Partition and
therefore makes VMs unable to boot.  Accept these requests instead.
them.

Ignoring these requests is possible, but inconsistent with fsync(2)
which honors them.

Fixes: #7698
Signed-off-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
2026-02-14 09:54:46 +00:00
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