Linus, Please pull a writeback fix, it has been in linux-next for one month. The following changes since commit 374b105797c3d4f29c685f3be535c35f5689b30e: Linux 3.13-rc3 (2013-12-06 09:34:04 -0800) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux.git tags/writeback-fixes for you to fetch changes up to f9b0e058cbd04ada76b13afffa7e1df830543c24: writeback: Fix data corruption on NFS (2013-12-14 04:21:26 +0800) ---------------------------------------------------------------- fix data corruption on NFS writeback ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jan Kara (1): writeback: Fix data corruption on NFS fs/fs-writeback.c | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c index 1f4a10e..e0259a1 100644 --- a/fs/fs-writeback.c +++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c @@ -516,13 +516,16 @@ writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode, struct bdi_writeback *wb, } WARN_ON(inode->i_state & I_SYNC); /* - * Skip inode if it is clean. We don't want to mess with writeback - * lists in this function since flusher thread may be doing for example - * sync in parallel and if we move the inode, it could get skipped. So - * here we make sure inode is on some writeback list and leave it there - * unless we have completely cleaned the inode. + * Skip inode if it is clean and we have no outstanding writeback in + * WB_SYNC_ALL mode. We don't want to mess with writeback lists in this + * function since flusher thread may be doing for example sync in + * parallel and if we move the inode, it could get skipped. So here we + * make sure inode is on some writeback list and leave it there unless + * we have completely cleaned the inode. */ - if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY)) + if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) && + (wbc->sync_mode != WB_SYNC_ALL || + !mapping_tagged(inode->i_mapping, PAGECACHE_TAG_WRITEBACK))) goto out; inode->i_state |= I_SYNC; spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); -- 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