linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 081/177] afs: Flush outstanding writes when an fd is closed

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Message-Id: <20171218152914.166608242@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:48:24 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@...il.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 081/177] afs: Flush outstanding writes when an fd is closed

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>


[ 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@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 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_iter	= generic_file_read_iter,
--- a/fs/afs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/afs/internal.h
@@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ 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
@@ -736,6 +736,20 @@ 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
  */