Fsync is really an inode operation (AFAICS) so a doing it on a O_RDONLY file descriptor should flush any data written through an O_WRONLY file descriptor for example. To make this work correctly in case the file is copied up after being opened for read intercept the fsync fop, similarly to read_iter and mmap. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c index 210838f97777..d861aa7462c5 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -412,6 +412,24 @@ static int ovl_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma) return file->f_op->mmap(file, vma); } +static int ovl_fsync(struct file *file, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync) +{ + int ret; + + if (likely(ovl_file_is_lower(file))) { + return OVL_CALL_REAL_FOP(file, + fsync(file, start, end, datasync)); + } + file = filp_clone_open(file); + if (IS_ERR(file)) + return PTR_ERR(file); + + ret = vfs_fsync_range(file, start, end, datasync); + fput(file); + + return ret; +} + static struct ovl_fops *ovl_fops_find(const struct file_operations *orig) { struct ovl_fops *ofop; @@ -455,9 +473,8 @@ static struct ovl_fops *ovl_fops_get(struct file *file) ofop->fops.read_iter = ovl_read_iter; if (orig->mmap) ofop->fops.mmap = ovl_mmap; - - /* These will need to be intercepted: */ - ofop->fops.fsync = orig->fsync; + if (orig->fsync) + ofop->fops.fsync = ovl_fsync; /* * These should be intercepted, but they are very unlikely to be -- 2.5.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html