Re: [PATCH 8/8] libfrog: always fsync when flushing a device

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On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 05:42:31PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Always call fsync() when we're flushing a device, even if it is a block
> device.  It's probably redundant to call fsync /and/ BLKFLSBUF, but the
> latter has odd behavior so we want to make sure the standard flush
> methods have a chance to run first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  libfrog/linux.c |   10 +++++++---
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> 
> diff --git a/libfrog/linux.c b/libfrog/linux.c
> index 60bc1dc4..40a839d1 100644
> --- a/libfrog/linux.c
> +++ b/libfrog/linux.c
> @@ -155,14 +155,18 @@ platform_flush_device(
>  	if (major(device) == RAMDISK_MAJOR)
>  		return 0;
>  
> +	ret = fsync(fd);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
>  	ret = fstat(fd, &st);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
> -	if (S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
> -		return fsync(fd);
> +	if (S_ISBLK(st.st_mode))
> +		return ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF, 0);
>  
> -	return ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF, 0);
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  void
> 




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