On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 08:51:13AM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote:
> Sync syscall to DAX file needs to flush processor cache, but it
> currently does not flush to existing DAX files. 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 initialize i_flags before ext4_set_aops().
>
> Fixes: 5f0663bb4a64 ("ext4, dax: introduce ext4_dax_aops")
> Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@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>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
