commit e12fb97222 upstream.
Previously commit 14ece1028b added a
support for for syncing parent directory of newly created inodes to
make sure that the inode is not lost after a power failure in
no-journal mode.
However this does not work in majority of cases, namely:
- if the directory has inline data
- if the directory is already indexed
- if the directory already has at least one block and:
- the new entry fits into it
- or we've successfully converted it to indexed
So in those cases we might lose the inode entirely even after fsync in
the no-journal mode. This also includes ext2 default mode obviously.
I've noticed this while running xfstest generic/321 and even though the
test should fail (we need to run fsck after a crash in no-journal mode)
I could not find a newly created entries even when if it was fsynced
before.
Fix this by adjusting the ext4_add_entry() successful exit paths to set
the inode EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY so that fsync has the chance to fsync the
parent directory as well.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Frank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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