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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-10-16 11:31:39 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-10-16 11:31:39 +0200
commit1d33369db25eb7f37b7a8bd22d736888b4501a9c (patch)
tree116d764339be1bca928870151decbedc53a9e1d1 /fs/ext4/fsync.c
parent23446cb66c073b827779e5eb3dec301623299b32 (diff)
parent1001354ca34179f3db924eb66672442a173147dc (diff)
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Merge tag 'v4.9-rc1' into x86/urgent, to pick up updates
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/fsync.c')
-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;
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