The patch titled Subject: fs/fat/file.c: issue flush after the writeback of FAT has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fat-issue-flush-after-the-writeback-of-fat.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/fat/file.c: issue flush after the writeback of FAT fsync() needs to make sure the data & meta-data of file are persistent after the return of fsync(), even when a power-failure occurs later. In the case of fat-fs, the FAT belongs to the meta-data of file, so we need to issue a flush after the writeback of FAT instead before. Also bail out early when any stage of fsync fails. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190409030158.136316-1-houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fat/file.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/fat/file.c~fat-issue-flush-after-the-writeback-of-fat +++ a/fs/fat/file.c @@ -193,12 +193,17 @@ static int fat_file_release(struct inode int fat_file_fsync(struct file *filp, loff_t start, loff_t end, int datasync) { struct inode *inode = filp->f_mapping->host; - int res, err; + int err; + + err = __generic_file_fsync(filp, start, end, datasync); + if (err) + return err; - res = generic_file_fsync(filp, start, end, datasync); err = sync_mapping_buffers(MSDOS_SB(inode->i_sb)->fat_inode->i_mapping); + if (err) + return err; - return res ? res : err; + return blkdev_issue_flush(inode->i_sb->s_bdev, GFP_KERNEL, NULL); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx are