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bhyve blockif: fix blockif_candelete with Capsicum
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Authored by chuck on Nov 30 2021, 7:49 PM.
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Summary

NVMe conformance tests for the Format command failed if the
backing-storage for the bhyve device was a file instead of a Zvol. The
tests (and the specification) expect a Format to destroy all previously
written data. The bhyve NVMe emulation implements this by trimming /
deallocating all data from the backing-storage.

The blockif_candelete() function indicated the file did not support
deallocation (i.e. fpathconf(..., _PC_DEALLOC_PRESENT) returned FALSE)
even though the kernel supported file hole punching. This occurs on
builds with Capsicum enabled because blockif did not allow the
fpathconf(2) right.

Fix is to add CAP_FPATHCONF to the cap_rights_init(3) call.

PR: 260081

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