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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 124ef771a618..60bd31026e7c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -1180,6 +1180,7 @@ enum {
         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)                                 \