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-rw-r--r--fs/f2fs/namei.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/namei.c b/fs/f2fs/namei.c
index 8055e30eb14d..9f0eec4677fe 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/namei.c
@@ -324,6 +324,17 @@ static int f2fs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
unlock_new_inode(inode);
+ /*
+ * Let's flush symlink data in order to avoid broken symlink as much as
+ * possible. Nevertheless, fsyncing is the best way, but there is no
+ * way to get a file descriptor in order to flush that.
+ *
+ * Note that, it needs to do dir->fsync to make this recoverable.
+ * If the symlink path is stored into inline_data, there is no
+ * performance regression.
+ */
+ filemap_write_and_wait_range(inode->i_mapping, 0, symlen - 1);
+
if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
f2fs_sync_fs(sbi->sb, 1);
return err;