Sync syscall to an existing DAX file needs to flush processor cache, but it does not currently. This is because 'ext4_da_aops' is set to address_space_operations of existing DAX files, instead of 'ext4_dax_aops', since S_DAX flag is set after ext4_set_aops() in the open path. New file -------- lookup_open ext4_create __ext4_new_inode ext4_set_inode_flags // Set S_DAX flag ext4_set_aops // Set aops to ext4_dax_aops Existing file ------------- lookup_open ext4_lookup ext4_iget ext4_set_aops // Set aops to ext4_da_aops ext4_set_inode_flags // Set S_DAX flag Change ext4_iget() to call ext4_set_inode_flags() before ext4_set_aops(). Fixes: 5f0663bb4a64f588f0a2dd6d1be68d40f9af0086 Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 775cd9b4af55..93cbbb859c40 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4998,6 +4998,8 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino) if (ret) goto bad_inode; + ext4_set_inode_flags(inode); + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) { inode->i_op = &ext4_file_inode_operations; inode->i_fop = &ext4_file_operations; @@ -5043,7 +5045,6 @@ struct inode *ext4_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino) goto bad_inode; } brelse(iloc.bh); - ext4_set_inode_flags(inode); unlock_new_inode(inode); return inode;