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;