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ext4: make fsync to sync parent dir in no-journal for real this time 

commit e12fb97222 upstream.

Previously commit 14ece1028b added a
support for for syncing parent directory of newly created inodes to
make sure that the inode is not lost after a power failure in
no-journal mode.

However this does not work in majority of cases, namely:
 - if the directory has inline data
 - if the directory is already indexed
 - if the directory already has at least one block and:
	- the new entry fits into it
	- or we've successfully converted it to indexed

So in those cases we might lose the inode entirely even after fsync in
the no-journal mode. This also includes ext2 default mode obviously.

I've noticed this while running xfstest generic/321 and even though the
test should fail (we need to run fsck after a crash in no-journal mode)
I could not find a newly created entries even when if it was fsynced
before.

Fix this by adjusting the ext4_add_entry() successful exit paths to set
the inode EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY so that fsync has the chance to fsync the
parent directory as well.

Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Lukas Czerner 2015-04-03 10:46:58 -04:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 3e79609740
commit b19efa7293
1 changed files with 11 additions and 9 deletions
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fs/ext4/namei.c
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@ -1869,7 +1869,7 @@ static int ext4_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
struct inode *inode)
{
struct inode *dir = dentry->d_parent->d_inode;
struct buffer_head *bh;
struct buffer_head *bh = NULL;
struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de;
struct ext4_dir_entry_tail *t;
struct super_block *sb;
@ -1893,14 +1893,14 @@ static int ext4_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
return retval;
if (retval == 1) {
retval = 0;
return retval;
goto out;
}
}
if (is_dx(dir)) {
retval = ext4_dx_add_entry(handle, dentry, inode);
if (!retval || (retval != ERR_BAD_DX_DIR))
return retval;
goto out;
ext4_clear_inode_flag(dir, EXT4_INODE_INDEX);
dx_fallback++;
ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, dir);
@ -1912,14 +1912,15 @@ static int ext4_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
return PTR_ERR(bh);
retval = add_dirent_to_buf(handle, dentry, inode, NULL, bh);
if (retval != -ENOSPC) {
brelse(bh);
return retval;
}
if (retval != -ENOSPC)
goto out;
if (blocks == 1 && !dx_fallback &&
EXT4_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX))
return make_indexed_dir(handle, dentry, inode, bh);
EXT4_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX)) {
retval = make_indexed_dir(handle, dentry, inode, bh);
bh = NULL; /* make_indexed_dir releases bh */
goto out;
}
brelse(bh);
}
bh = ext4_append(handle, dir, &block);
@ -1935,6 +1936,7 @@ static int ext4_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
}
retval = add_dirent_to_buf(handle, dentry, inode, de, bh);
out:
brelse(bh);
if (retval == 0)
ext4_set_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY);