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| author | Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> | 2010-04-06 14:34:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-04-26 07:47:49 -0700 |
| commit | 769c76538f4a274f17b8d895475f97d4ab5cbeee (patch) | |
| tree | f3bcdd08ba2bc6bb3b543789788e66cec3773df1 /include | |
| parent | 7a48779f900760fb368efdef7e839b066527bb17 (diff) | |
raw: fsync method is now required
commit 55ab3a1ff843e3f0e24d2da44e71bffa5d853010 upstream.
Commit 148f948ba877f4d3cdef036b1ff6d9f68986706a (vfs: Introduce new
helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode) broke
the raw driver.
We now call through generic_file_aio_write -> generic_write_sync ->
vfs_fsync_range. vfs_fsync_range has:
if (!fop || !fop->fsync) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
But drivers/char/raw.c doesn't set an fsync method.
We have two options: fix it or remove the raw driver completely. I'm
happy to do either, the fact this has been broken for so long suggests it
is rarely used.
The patch below adds an fsync method to the raw driver. My knowledge of
the block layer is pretty sketchy so this could do with a once over.
If we instead decide to remove the raw driver, this patch might still be
useful as a backport to 2.6.33 and 2.6.32.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index f2f68ce547bb..66b0705487b3 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2214,6 +2214,7 @@ extern int generic_segment_checks(const struct iovec *iov, /* fs/block_dev.c */ extern ssize_t blkdev_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos); +extern int block_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync); /* fs/splice.c */ extern ssize_t generic_file_splice_read(struct file *, loff_t *, |