linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] vfs: Make __fsync_super() a static function (version 3)

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:52:25 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] vfs: Make __fsync_super() a static function
	(version 3)

On Thu 23-04-09 17:39:50, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 23:35 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > __fsync_super() does the same thing as fsync_super(). So change the only
> > caller to use fsync_super() and make __fsync_super() static. This removes
> > unnecessarily duplicated call to sync_blockdev() and prepares ground
> > for the changes to __fsync_super() in the following patches.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> > ---
> >  fs/block_dev.c     |    2 +-
> >  fs/super.c         |    5 ++---
> >  include/linux/fs.h |    1 -
> >  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c
> > index f45dbc1..48d1290 100644
> > --- a/fs/block_dev.c
> > +++ b/fs/block_dev.c
> > @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ struct super_block *freeze_bdev(struct block_device *bdev)
> >  		sb->s_frozen = SB_FREEZE_WRITE;
> >  		smp_wmb();
> >  
> > -		__fsync_super(sb);
> > +		fsync_super(sb);
> >  
> >  		sb->s_frozen = SB_FREEZE_TRANS;
> >  		smp_wmb();
> > diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
> > index d9759e0..4c92068 100644
> > --- a/fs/super.c
> > +++ b/fs/super.c
> > @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unlock_super);
> >   * device.  Takes the superblock lock.  Requires a second blkdev
> >   * flush by the caller to complete the operation.
> >   */
> > -void __fsync_super(struct super_block *sb)
> > +static int __fsync_super(struct super_block *sb)
> >  {
> >  	sync_inodes_sb(sb, 0);
> >  	vfs_dq_sync(sb);
> 
> Still missing the return value here :-)
  Ah, OK, but it's fixed in the last patch. I'll fix it in this one as well
for next time. Thanks.

									Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/