From e12fb97222fc41e8442896934f76d39ef99b590a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Czerner Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:46:58 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: make fsync to sync parent dir in no-journal for real this time Previously commit 14ece1028b3ed53ffec1b1213ffc6acaf79ad77c 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 Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Frank Mayhar Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 20 +++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index efb64aee5b9e..23a0b9bf822d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@ 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; @@ -1888,14 +1888,14 @@ 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); @@ -1907,14 +1907,15 @@ 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); @@ -1930,6 +1931,7 @@ 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); -- 2.20.1