Commit e12fb972 authored by Lukas Czerner's avatar Lukas Czerner Committed by Theodore Ts'o

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

Previously commit 14ece102 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: default avatarLukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
parent 9d21c9fa
......@@ -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);
......
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