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Pull vfs writeback updates from Christian Brauner:
"This makes sync_inode_metadata() and writeback_single_inode() persist
not only the inode but all metadata associated with it.
A new .sync_inode_metadata superblock operation is called from
__writeback_single_inode(). Alongside it a new I_METADATA_WRITEBACK
state flag is added.
Filesystems no longer need their own mmb_fsync() implementations and
can just use simple_fsync(). All metadata is now written for IS_SYNC
and IS_DIRSYNC inodes. Races where several fsyncs raced and mmb_sync()
could return before all buffers were really persisted are fixed since
I_SYNC now serializes properly.
The I_METADATA_WRITEBACK scheme also fixes the case where a
WB_SYNC_NONE writeback landing between write(2) and fsync(2) left
fsync(2) failing to persist the inode. That problem is not specific to
filesystems using the generic metadata bh tracking, and the ones that
do not are left alone.
ext2, udf, bfs, minix, fat and ext4 in nojournal mode have their data
integrity writeout fixed and are converted. affs drops metadata bh
tracking and mmb_fsync() is removed.
A few other fixes came out of this:
- a UAF in mark_buffer_write_io_error()
- missed inode writeback when racing with __writeback_single_inode()
- ext4 allocating the mapping_metadata_bhs struct on demand
- three fat fixes: a lost inode update in do_msdos_rename() with
DIRSYNC, inode buffer write errors not propagating out of
fat_sync_inode_metadata() and directory entries not being
persisted on fsync(2) of the root directory"
* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.sync' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
writeback: Export __inode_attach_wb()
fat: Fix persisting directory entries on fsync(2) of the root directory
fat: Propagate inode buffer write errors from fat_sync_inode_metadata()
fat: Fix lost inode update in do_msdos_rename() with DIRSYNC
vfs: Remove mmb_fsync()
fat: Replace fat_sync_inode() with sync_inode_metadata()
fat: Fix missed inode writeback during fsync(2)
ext4: Fix data integrity writeout issues in nojournal mode
minix: Fix data integrity writeout issues
bfs: Fix data integrity writeout issues
udf: Fold udf_update_inode() into udf_write_inode()
udf: Use sync_inode_metadata() in udf_evict_inode()
udf: Drop udf_sync_inode()
udf: Use sync_inode_metadata() to writeout IS_SYNC inode
udf: Fix data integrity writeout issues
ext2: Fix data integrity writeout issues
ext2: Avoid unnecessary inode buffer writeback for sync(2)
ext2: Drop __ext2_write_inode()
ext2: Fix lost inode updates for IS_SYNC inodes
fs: Provide way for filesystem to wait for metadata writeback
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