Subject: [PATCH] Restore 'fsync' functionality on block devices.

From: NeilBrown
Date: Thu Aug 04 2011 - 23:35:28 EST



Commit 02c24a82187d5a628c68edfe71ae60dc135cd178:

fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into ->fsync() handlers

broke fsync on block devices as it did not push the
"filemap_write_and_wait" call down into blkdev_fsync.

(it didn't push it down into ps3flash_flush either, but maybe there is
a reason for that).

So call filemap_write_and_wait from blkdev_fsync following the pattern
that was originally in vfs_fsync_range.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
index f286805..532fefe 100644
--- a/fs/block_dev.c
+++ b/fs/block_dev.c
@@ -386,8 +386,10 @@ int blkdev_fsync(struct file *filp, loff_t start, loff_t
end, int datasync) {
struct inode *bd_inode = filp->f_mapping->host;
struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(bd_inode);
- int error;
+ int error, ret;
+

+ ret = filemap_write_and_wait_range(filp->f_mapping, start, end);
/*
* There is no need to serialise calls to blkdev_issue_flush with
* i_mutex and doing so causes performance issues with concurrent
@@ -396,6 +398,8 @@ int blkdev_fsync(struct file *filp, loff_t start, loff_t
end, int datasync) error = blkdev_issue_flush(bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL);
if (error == -EOPNOTSUPP)
error = 0;
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;

return error;
}
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