From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:51766 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932559AbcKHQac (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2016 11:30:32 -0500 Subject: Patch "ovl: fsync after copy-up" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: mszeredi@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:30:31 +0100 Message-ID: <147862263189138@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ovl: fsync after copy-up to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ovl-fsync-after-copy-up.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 641089c1549d8d3df0b047b5de7e9a111362cdce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:42:14 +0100 Subject: ovl: fsync after copy-up From: Miklos Szeredi commit 641089c1549d8d3df0b047b5de7e9a111362cdce upstream. Make sure the copied up file hits the disk before renaming to the final destination. If this is not done then the copy-up may corrupt the data in the file in case of a crash. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -139,6 +139,8 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_data(struct path len -= bytes; } + if (!error) + error = vfs_fsync(new_file, 0); fput(new_file); out_fput: fput(old_file); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mszeredi@redhat.com are queue-4.4/ovl-fsync-after-copy-up.patch