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| author | Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> | 2016-09-05 23:21:43 -0400 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2016-09-05 23:21:43 -0400 |
| commit | 6ae4c5a69877e5afb6ce63f7d82432133934073a (patch) | |
| tree | 35ec57fcbcd85d5e0e6d87e1fec929fc2f97f89f /fs/ext4/fsync.c | |
| parent | 0b7b77791cc1d99cbca08d5bc8210e57e6165612 (diff) | |
| download | linux-6ae4c5a69877e5afb6ce63f7d82432133934073a.tar.bz2 | |
ext4: cleanup ext4_sync_parent()
A condition !hlist_empty(&inode->i_dentry) is always true for open file.
Just remove it. Also ext4_sync_parent() could use some explanation why
races with rmdir() are not an issue - add a comment explaining that.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/fsync.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ext4/fsync.c | 9 |
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; |