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authorDavid Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>2008-05-19 10:29:46 +0400
committerLachlan McIlroy <lachlan@redback.melbourne.sgi.com>2008-05-23 09:25:25 +0400
commit978b7237123d007b9fa983af6e0e2fa8f97f9934 (patch)
treeed4c8af42502efeb7ae79b166bb5890347b3de93 /fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
parentc1e554aeea12d2dab5183e011c27dee6142dc927 (diff)
downloadlinux-978b7237123d007b9fa983af6e0e2fa8f97f9934.tar.xz
[XFS] Fix fsync() b0rkage.
xfs_fsync() fails to wait for data I/O completion before checking if the inode is dirty or clean to decide whether to log the inode or not. This misses inode size updates when the data flushed by the fsync() is extending the file. Hence, like fdatasync(), we need to wait for I/o completion first, then check the inode for cleanliness. Doing so makes the behaviour of xfs_fsync() identical for fsync and fdatasync and we *always* use synchronous semantics if the inode is dirty. Therefore also kill the differences and remove the unused flags from the xfs_fsync function and callers. SGI-PV: 981296 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:31033a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c17
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
index 65e78c13d4ae..5f60363b9343 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_file.c
@@ -184,19 +184,24 @@ xfs_file_release(
return -xfs_release(XFS_I(inode));
}
+/*
+ * We ignore the datasync flag here because a datasync is effectively
+ * identical to an fsync. That is, datasync implies that we need to write
+ * only the metadata needed to be able to access the data that is written
+ * if we crash after the call completes. Hence if we are writing beyond
+ * EOF we have to log the inode size change as well, which makes it a
+ * full fsync. If we don't write beyond EOF, the inode core will be
+ * clean in memory and so we don't need to log the inode, just like
+ * fsync.
+ */
STATIC int
xfs_file_fsync(
struct file *filp,
struct dentry *dentry,
int datasync)
{
- int flags = FSYNC_WAIT;
-
- if (datasync)
- flags |= FSYNC_DATA;
xfs_iflags_clear(XFS_I(dentry->d_inode), XFS_ITRUNCATED);
- return -xfs_fsync(XFS_I(dentry->d_inode), flags,
- (xfs_off_t)0, (xfs_off_t)-1);
+ return -xfs_fsync(XFS_I(dentry->d_inode));
}
/*