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-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/fsync.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
index 5c4372512ef7..88effb1053c7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@ static int ext4_sync_parent(struct inode *inode)
break;
iput(inode);
inode = next;
+ /*
+ * The directory inode may have gone through rmdir by now. But
+ * the inode itself and its blocks are still allocated (we hold
+ * a reference to the inode so it didn't go through
+ * ext4_evict_inode()) and so we are safe to flush metadata
+ * blocks and the inode.
+ */
ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);
if (ret)
break;
@@ -107,7 +114,7 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync)
if (!journal) {
ret = __generic_file_fsync(file, start, end, datasync);
- if (!ret && !hlist_empty(&inode->i_dentry))
+ if (!ret)
ret = ext4_sync_parent(inode);
if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, BARRIER))
goto issue_flush;