From: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>

There's no need to break sharing, triggering a copy, for a write that has no
data (i.e. a flush).

Signed-off-by: Joe Thornber <ejt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

---
 drivers/md/dm-thin.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ linux/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -1315,7 +1315,7 @@ static void process_shared_bio(struct th
 	if (bio_detain(pool->prison, &key, bio, &cell))
 		return;
 
-	if (bio_data_dir(bio) == WRITE)
+	if (bio_data_dir(bio) == WRITE && bio->bi_size)
 		break_sharing(tc, bio, block, &key, lookup_result, cell);
 	else {
 		struct dm_thin_endio_hook *h = dm_get_mapinfo(bio)->ptr;