linux-kernel - [100/102] dm snapshot: flush disk cache when merging

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Date:	Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:02:00 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
Subject: [100/102] dm snapshot: flush disk cache when merging

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>

commit 762a80d9fc9f690a3a35983f3b4619a220650808 upstream.

This patch makes dm-snapshot flush disk cache when writing metadata for
merging snapshot.

Without cache flushing the disk may reorder metadata write and other
data writes and there is a possibility of data corruption in case of
power fault.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ static int persistent_commit_merge(struc
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_merged; i++)
 		clear_exception(ps, ps->current_committed - 1 - i);
 
-	r = area_io(ps, WRITE);
+	r = area_io(ps, WRITE_FLUSH_FUA);
 	if (r < 0)
 		return r;
 


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