This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
afs: Flush outstanding writes when an fd is closed
to the 3.18-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:
afs-flush-outstanding-writes-when-an-fd-is-closed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 15:03:25 CET 2017
From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:27:45 +0000
Subject: afs: Flush outstanding writes when an fd is closed
From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 58fed94dfb17e89556b5705f20f90e5b2971b6a1 ]
Flush outstanding writes in afs when an fd is closed. This is what NFS and
CIFS do.
Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/afs/file.c | 1 +
fs/afs/internal.h | 1 +
fs/afs/write.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/afs/file.c
+++ b/fs/afs/file.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ static int afs_readpages(struct file *fi
const struct file_operations afs_file_operations = {
.open = afs_open,
+ .flush = afs_flush,
.release = afs_release,
.llseek = generic_file_llseek,
.read = new_sync_read,
--- a/fs/afs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/afs/internal.h
@@ -749,6 +749,7 @@ extern int afs_writepages(struct address
extern void afs_pages_written_back(struct afs_vnode *, struct afs_call *);
extern ssize_t afs_file_write(struct kiocb *, struct iov_iter *);
extern int afs_writeback_all(struct afs_vnode *);
+extern int afs_flush(struct file *, fl_owner_t);
extern int afs_fsync(struct file *, loff_t, loff_t, int);
--- a/fs/afs/write.c
+++ b/fs/afs/write.c
@@ -743,6 +743,20 @@ out:
}
/*
+ * Flush out all outstanding writes on a file opened for writing when it is
+ * closed.
+ */
+int afs_flush(struct file *file, fl_owner_t id)
+{
+ _enter("");
+
+ if ((file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) == 0)
+ return 0;
+
+ return vfs_fsync(file, 0);
+}
+
+/*
* notification that a previously read-only page is about to become writable
* - if it returns an error, the caller will deliver a bus error signal
*/
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/afs-flush-outstanding-writes-when-an-fd-is-closed.patch
queue-3.18/afs-fix-the-maths-in-afs_fs_store_data.patch
queue-3.18/keys-don-t-permit-request_key-to-construct-a-new-keyring.patch
queue-3.18/afs-populate-group-id-from-vnode-status.patch
queue-3.18/afs-adjust-mode-bits-processing.patch
queue-3.18/afs-fix-page-leak-in-afs_write_begin.patch
queue-3.18/afs-fix-missing-put_page.patch
queue-3.18/afs-populate-and-use-client-modification-time.patch
queue-3.18/afs-fix-afs_kill_pages.patch
queue-3.18/don-t-leak-a-key-reference-if-request_key-tries-to-use-a-revoked-keyring.patch