linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 040/110] ext4: call sync_blockdev() before invalidate_bdev() in put

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Message-ID: <lsq.1439201551.727424642@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:12:31 +0200
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 040/110] ext4: call sync_blockdev() before
 invalidate_bdev() in put_super()

3.2.71-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>

commit 89d96a6f8e6491f24fc8f99fd6ae66820e85c6c1 upstream.

Normally all of the buffers will have been forced out to disk before
we call invalidate_bdev(), but there will be some cases, where a file
system operation was aborted due to an ext4_error(), where there may
still be some dirty buffers in the buffer cache for the device.  So
try to force them out to memory before calling invalidate_bdev().

This fixes a warning triggered by generic/081:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 3473 at /usr/projects/linux/ext4/fs/block_dev.c:56 __blkdev_put+0xb5/0x16f()

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -857,6 +857,7 @@ static void ext4_put_super(struct super_
 		dump_orphan_list(sb, sbi);
 	J_ASSERT(list_empty(&sbi->s_orphan));
 
+	sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
 	invalidate_bdev(sb->s_bdev);
 	if (sbi->journal_bdev && sbi->journal_bdev != sb->s_bdev) {
 		/*

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