Re: [PATCH] hostfs: Fix writeback of dirty pages

[Christopher Obbard]

Hi Sjoerd,

On 05/11/2021 08:10, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> Hostfs was not setting up the backing device information, which means it
> uses the noop bdi. The noop bdi does not have the writeback capability
> enabled, which in turns means  dirty pages never got written back to
> storage.
>
> In other words programs using mmap to write to files on  hostfs never
> actually got their data written out...
>
> Fix this by simply setting up the bdi with default settings as all the
> required code for writeback is already in place.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Christopher Obbard <chris.obbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

...replying mainly as I wonder if adding the stable tag in a reply will 
make the patch appear in stable (obviously once it is in mainline) ? :-)


> ---
>
>   fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 3 +++
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
> index d5c9d886cd9f..ef481c3d9019 100644
> --- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
> +++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
> @@ -924,6 +924,9 @@ static int hostfs_fill_sb_common(struct super_block *sb, void *d, int silent)
>   	sb->s_op = &hostfs_sbops;
>   	sb->s_d_op = &simple_dentry_operations;
>   	sb->s_maxbytes = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE;
> +	err = super_setup_bdi(sb);
> +	if (err)
> +		goto out;
>   
>   	/* NULL is printed as '(null)' by printf(): avoid that. */
>   	if (req_root == NULL)