--- /dev/null
+From 40846f73aea36b4ef66cce152321208f7d820222 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@proxmox.com>
+Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:05:34 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH 48/48] vma: don't use O_DIRECT on pipes
+
+It puts them in packet mode which potentially discards data.
+---
+ vma-writer.c | 10 ++++------
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/vma-writer.c b/vma-writer.c
+index 70dcca0..9001cbd 100644
+--- a/vma-writer.c
++++ b/vma-writer.c
+@@ -283,9 +283,8 @@ VmaWriter *vma_writer_create(const char *filename, uuid_t uuid, Error **errp)
+ }
+ vmaw->fd = fileno(vmaw->cmd);
+
+- /* try to use O_NONBLOCK and O_DIRECT */
++ /* try to use O_NONBLOCK */
+ fcntl(vmaw->fd, F_SETFL, fcntl(vmaw->fd, F_GETFL)|O_NONBLOCK);
+- fcntl(vmaw->fd, F_SETFL, fcntl(vmaw->fd, F_GETFL)|O_DIRECT);
+
+ } else {
+ struct stat st;
+@@ -293,19 +292,18 @@ VmaWriter *vma_writer_create(const char *filename, uuid_t uuid, Error **errp)
+ const char *tmp_id_str;
+
+ if ((stat(filename, &st) == 0) && S_ISFIFO(st.st_mode)) {
+- oflags = O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECT|O_WRONLY;
++ oflags = O_NONBLOCK|O_WRONLY;
+ vmaw->fd = qemu_open(filename, oflags, 0644);
+ } else if (strstart(filename, "/dev/fdset/", &tmp_id_str)) {
+- oflags = O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECT|O_WRONLY;
++ oflags = O_NONBLOCK|O_WRONLY;
+ vmaw->fd = qemu_open(filename, oflags, 0644);
+ } else if (strstart(filename, "/dev/fdname/", &tmp_id_str)) {
+ vmaw->fd = monitor_get_fd(cur_mon, tmp_id_str, errp);
+ if (vmaw->fd < 0) {
+ goto err;
+ }
+- /* try to use O_NONBLOCK and O_DIRECT */
++ /* try to use O_NONBLOCK */
+ fcntl(vmaw->fd, F_SETFL, fcntl(vmaw->fd, F_GETFL)|O_NONBLOCK);
+- fcntl(vmaw->fd, F_SETFL, fcntl(vmaw->fd, F_GETFL)|O_DIRECT);
+ } else {
+ oflags = O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECT|O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL;
+ vmaw->fd = qemu_open(filename, oflags, 0644);
+--
+2.1.4
+