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diff --git a/block/file-posix.c b/block/file-posix.c
index 6e24083f3f..f37dfc10b3 100644
--- a/block/file-posix.c
+++ b/block/file-posix.c
@@ -1625,17 +1625,17 @@ static int handle_aiocb_write_zeroes(void *opaque)
if (s->has_write_zeroes) {
int ret = do_fallocate(s->fd, FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE,
aiocb->aio_offset, aiocb->aio_nbytes);
- if (ret == -EINVAL) {
- /*
- * Allow falling back to pwrite for file systems that
- * do not support fallocate() for an unaligned byte range.
- */
- return -ENOTSUP;
- }
- if (ret == 0 || ret != -ENOTSUP) {
+ if (ret == -ENOTSUP) {
+ s->has_write_zeroes = false;
+ } else if (ret == 0 || ret != -EINVAL) {
return ret;
}
- s->has_write_zeroes = false;
+ /*
+ * Note: Some file systems do not like unaligned byte ranges, and
+ * return EINVAL in such a case, though they should not do it according
+ * to the man-page of fallocate(). Thus we simply ignore this return
+ * value and try the other fallbacks instead.
+ */
}
#endif