ext4: sync the directory inode in ext4_sync_parent()

ext4 has taken the stance that, in the absence of a journal,
when an fsync/fdatasync of an inode is done, the parent
directory should be sync'ed if this inode entry is new.
ext4_sync_parent(), which implements this, does indeed sync
the dirent pages for parent directories, but it does not
sync the directory *inode*.  This patch fixes this.

Also now return error status from ext4_sync_parent().

I tested this using a power fail test, which panics a
machine running a file server getting requests from a
client.  Without this patch, on about every other test run,
the server is missing many, many files that had been synced.
With this patch, on > 6 runs, I see zero files being lost.

Google-Bug-Id: 4179519
Signed-off-by: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/fsync.c b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
index 7f74019d6d77..b1f9b5fc93eb 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
@@ -125,9 +125,11 @@ extern int ext4_flush_completed_IO(struct inode *inode)
  * the parent directory's parent as well, and so on recursively, if
  * they are also freshly created.
  */
-static void ext4_sync_parent(struct inode *inode)
+static int ext4_sync_parent(struct inode *inode)
 {
+        struct writeback_control wbc;
         struct dentry *dentry = NULL;
+        int ret = 0;
 
         while (inode && ext4_test_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY)) {
                 ext4_clear_inode_state(inode, EXT4_STATE_NEWENTRY);
@@ -136,8 +138,17 @@ static void ext4_sync_parent(struct inode *inode)
                 if (!dentry || !dentry->d_parent || !dentry->d_parent->d_inode)
                         break;
                 inode = dentry->d_parent->d_inode;
-                sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);
+                ret = sync_mapping_buffers(inode->i_mapping);
+                if (ret)
+                        break;
+                memset(&wbc, 0, sizeof(wbc));
+                wbc.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL;
+                wbc.nr_to_write = 0;         /* only write out the inode */
+                ret = sync_inode(inode, &wbc);
+                if (ret)
+                        break;
         }
+        return ret;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -176,7 +187,7 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, int datasync)
         if (!journal) {
                 ret = generic_file_fsync(file, datasync);
                 if (!ret && !list_empty(&inode->i_dentry))
-                        ext4_sync_parent(inode);
+                        ret = ext4_sync_parent(inode);
                 goto out;
         }