Mark overlayfs' inode dirty on modification so that we can recognize target inodes during syncfs. Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 1 + fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 4 ++++ fs/overlayfs/util.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c index 1f5cbbc60b28..faa5c345f0cf 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ int ovl_update_time(struct inode *inode, struct timespec64 *ts, int flags) if (upperpath.dentry) { touch_atime(&upperpath); inode->i_atime = d_inode(upperpath.dentry)->i_atime; + ovl_mark_inode_dirty(inode); } } return 0; diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h index f8880aa2ba0e..eaf1d5b05d8e 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h +++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h @@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ static inline bool ovl_open_flags_need_copy_up(int flags) } /* util.c */ +void ovl_mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode); int ovl_want_write(struct dentry *dentry); void ovl_drop_write(struct dentry *dentry); struct dentry *ovl_workdir(struct dentry *dentry); @@ -472,6 +473,9 @@ static inline void ovl_copyattr(struct inode *from, struct inode *to) to->i_mtime = from->i_mtime; to->i_ctime = from->i_ctime; i_size_write(to, i_size_read(from)); + + if (ovl_inode_upper(to) && from->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL) + ovl_mark_inode_dirty(to); } static inline void ovl_copyflags(struct inode *from, struct inode *to) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c index 23f475627d07..a6f59df744ae 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c @@ -950,3 +950,17 @@ char *ovl_get_redirect_xattr(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *dentry, kfree(buf); return ERR_PTR(res); } + +/* + * We intentionally add I_DIRTY_SYNC flag regardless dirty flag + * of upper inode so that we have chance to invoke ->write_inode + * to re-dirty overlayfs' inode during writeback process. + */ +void ovl_mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode) +{ + struct inode *upper = ovl_inode_upper(inode); + unsigned long iflag = I_DIRTY_SYNC; + + iflag |= upper->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL; + __mark_inode_dirty(inode, iflag); +} -- 2.26.2