overlayfs syncs all inode pages on sync_filesystem(), but it also needs to call s_op->sync_fs() of upper fs for metadata sync. This fixes correctness of syncfs(2) as demonstrated by following xfs specific test: xfs_sync_stats() { echo $1 echo -n "xfs_log_force = " grep log /proc/fs/xfs/stat | awk '{ print $5 }' } xfs_sync_stats "before touch" touch x xfs_sync_stats "after touch" xfs_io -c syncfs . xfs_sync_stats "after syncfs" xfs_io -c fsync x xfs_sync_stats "after fsync" xfs_io -c fsync x xfs_sync_stats "after fsync #2" When this test is run in overlay mount over xfs, log force count does not increase with syncfs command. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) Miklos, Re-posting this one proven bug fix detached from the overlay freeze series that needs more work. If you have some free cycles, I would love to get some feedback on the change "vfs: freeze protect overlay inode on file_start_write()" Thanks, Amir. v3: - Added reviewed-by hch - Detached from ovl freeze series v2: - Add test case to commit msg v1: - Same code as v3 diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index 6792bb7..346f668 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -160,6 +160,25 @@ static void ovl_put_super(struct super_block *sb) kfree(ufs); } +static int ovl_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int wait) +{ + struct ovl_fs *ufs = sb->s_fs_info; + struct super_block *upper_sb; + int ret; + + if (!ufs->upper_mnt) + return 0; + upper_sb = ufs->upper_mnt->mnt_sb; + if (!upper_sb->s_op->sync_fs) + return 0; + + /* real inodes have already been synced by sync_filesystem(ovl_sb) */ + down_read(&upper_sb->s_umount); + ret = upper_sb->s_op->sync_fs(upper_sb, wait); + up_read(&upper_sb->s_umount); + return ret; +} + /** * ovl_statfs * @sb: The overlayfs super block @@ -222,6 +241,7 @@ static int ovl_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) static const struct super_operations ovl_super_operations = { .put_super = ovl_put_super, + .sync_fs = ovl_sync_fs, .statfs = ovl_statfs, .show_options = ovl_show_options, .remount_fs = ovl_remount, -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html