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Akilesh Kailash authored
If the origin device has a volatile write-back cache and the following events occur: 1: After finishing merge operation of one set of exceptions, merge_callback() is invoked. 2: Update the metadata in COW device tracking the merge completion. This update to COW device is flushed cleanly. 3: System crashes and the origin device's cache where the recent merge was completed has not been flushed. During the next cycle when we read the metadata from the COW device, we will skip reading those metadata whose merge was completed in step (1). This will lead to data loss/corruption. To address this, flush the origin device post merge IO before updating the metadata. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Akilesh Kailash <akailash@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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