There are only two places in whole kernel to call ->sync_fs directly. It will sync fs even in read-only mode. It's not a good idea and some filesystem would warn out if you are syncing in read-only mode. But sync_filesystem() does filter this case out. Let's call sync_filesystem() here instead. Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/quota/dquot.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/quota/dquot.c b/fs/quota/dquot.c index 140397a..0bda7fa 100644 --- a/fs/quota/dquot.c +++ b/fs/quota/dquot.c @@ -668,8 +668,7 @@ int dquot_quota_sync(struct super_block *sb, int type) /* This is not very clever (and fast) but currently I don't know about * any other simple way of getting quota data to disk and we must get * them there for userspace to be visible... */ - if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) - sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1); + sync_filesystem(sb); sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev); /* @@ -2043,7 +2042,7 @@ int dquot_disable(struct super_block *sb, int type, unsigned int flags) /* * Skip everything if there's nothing to do. We have to do this because * sometimes we are called when fill_super() failed and calling - * sync_fs() in such cases does no good. + * sync_filesystem() in such cases does no good. */ if (!sb_any_quota_loaded(sb)) { mutex_unlock(&dqopt->dqonoff_mutex); @@ -2110,8 +2109,7 @@ int dquot_disable(struct super_block *sb, int type, unsigned int flags) /* Sync the superblock so that buffers with quota data are written to * disk (and so userspace sees correct data afterwards). */ - if (sb->s_op->sync_fs) - sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1); + sync_filesystem(sb); sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev); /* Now the quota files are just ordinary files and we can set the * inode flags back. Moreover we discard the pagecache so that -- 1.8.4.2 -- 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