Now overlayfs can sync proper dirty inodes during syncfs, so remove unnecessary sync_filesystem() on upper file system. Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index bf4000eb9be8..ef998ada6cb9 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include <linux/seq_file.h> #include <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h> #include <linux/exportfs.h> +#include <linux/writeback.h> #include "overlayfs.h" MODULE_AUTHOR("Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>"); @@ -281,18 +282,15 @@ static int ovl_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait) /* * Not called for sync(2) call or an emergency sync (SB_I_SKIP_SYNC). * All the super blocks will be iterated, including upper_sb. - * - * If this is a syncfs(2) call, then we do need to call - * sync_filesystem() on upper_sb, but enough if we do it when being - * called with wait == 1. */ - if (!wait) - return 0; upper_sb = ovl_upper_mnt(ofs)->mnt_sb; down_read(&upper_sb->s_umount); - ret = sync_filesystem(upper_sb); + if (wait) + wait_sb_inodes(upper_sb); + + ret = sync_fs_and_blockdev(upper_sb, wait); up_read(&upper_sb->s_umount); return ret; -- 2.27.0