This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fs/ntfs3: Write immediately updated ntfs state
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
fs-ntfs3-write-immediately-updated-ntfs-state.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 5ad679dc956a2de9def84859ed2c6e0508d115b2
Author: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 30 15:57:19 2023 +0400
fs/ntfs3: Write immediately updated ntfs state
[ Upstream commit 06ccfb00645990a9fcc14249e6d1c25921ecb836 ]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Komarov <almaz.alexandrovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c b/fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c
index 9c0fc3a29d0c9..873b1434a9989 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs3/fsntfs.c
@@ -953,18 +953,11 @@ int ntfs_set_state(struct ntfs_sb_info *sbi, enum NTFS_DIRTY_FLAGS dirty)
if (err)
return err;
- mark_inode_dirty(&ni->vfs_inode);
+ mark_inode_dirty_sync(&ni->vfs_inode);
/* verify(!ntfs_update_mftmirr()); */
- /*
- * If we used wait=1, sync_inode_metadata waits for the io for the
- * inode to finish. It hangs when media is removed.
- * So wait=0 is sent down to sync_inode_metadata
- * and filemap_fdatawrite is used for the data blocks.
- */
- err = sync_inode_metadata(&ni->vfs_inode, 0);
- if (!err)
- err = filemap_fdatawrite(ni->vfs_inode.i_mapping);
+ /* write mft record on disk. */
+ err = _ni_write_inode(&ni->vfs_inode, 1);
return err;
}
