ext4: Make fsync sync new parent directories in no-journal mode
Add a new ext4 state to tell us when a file has been newly created; use
that state in ext4_sync_file in no-journal mode to tell us when we need
to sync the parent directory as well as the inode and data itself. This
fixes a problem in which a panic or power failure may lose the entire
file even when using fsync, since the parent directory entry is lost.
Addresses-Google-Bug: #2480057
Signed-off-by: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 124ef77..60bd310 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1180,6 +1180,7 @@
EXT4_STATE_DA_ALLOC_CLOSE, /* Alloc DA blks on close */
EXT4_STATE_EXT_MIGRATE, /* Inode is migrating */
EXT4_STATE_DIO_UNWRITTEN, /* need convert on dio done*/
+ EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY, /* File just added to dir */
};
#define EXT4_INODE_BIT_FNS(name, field) \
