[16/90] ext4: fix cache flush in ext4_sync_file

Greg KH
2009-12-11T04:49:06Z

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2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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(cherry picked from commit 5f3481e9a80c240f169b36ea886e2325b9aeb745)

We need to flush the write cache unconditionally in ->fsync, otherwise
writes into already allocated blocks can get lost. Writes into fully
allocated files are very common when using disk images for
virtualization, and without this fix can easily lose data after
an fdatasync, which is the typical implementation for a cache flush on
the virtual drive.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
---
fs/ext4/fsync.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, st
.nr_to_write = 0, /* sys_fsync did this */
};
ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
- if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
- blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);
}
out:
+ if (journal && (journal->j_flags & JBD2_BARRIER))
+ blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, NULL);
return ret;
}