ovl: Sync upper dirty data when syncing overlayfs
commit
e8d4bfe3a71537284a90561f77c85dea6c154369 upstream.
When executing filesystem sync or umount on overlayfs,
dirty data does not get synced as expected on upper filesystem.
This patch fixes sync filesystem method to keep data consistency
for overlayfs.
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu@mykernel.net>
Fixes:
e593b2bf513d ("ovl: properly implement sync_filesystem()")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #4.11
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>