linux-kernel - [PATCH 6/7] f2fs: flush quota blocks after turnning it off

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Date:   Tue, 29 Jan 2019 07:47:16 +0800
From:   Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:     Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] f2fs: flush quota blocks after turnning it off

After quota_off, we'll get some dirty blocks. If put_super don't have a chance
to flush them by checkpoint, it causes NULL pointer exception in end_io after
iput(node_inode). (e.g., by checkpoint=disable)

Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>
---
 fs/f2fs/super.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index 5e1f8573a17f..7694cb350734 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -2026,6 +2026,12 @@ void f2fs_quota_off_umount(struct super_block *sb)
 			set_sbi_flag(F2FS_SB(sb), SBI_QUOTA_NEED_REPAIR);
 		}
 	}
+	/*
+	 * In case of checkpoint=disable, we must flush quota blocks.
+	 * This can cause NULL exception for node_inode in end_io, since
+	 * put_super already dropped it.
+	 */
+	sync_filesystem(sb);
 }
 
 static void f2fs_truncate_quota_inode_pages(struct super_block *sb)
-- 
2.19.0.605.g01d371f741-goog