ext4: Assure that metadata blocks are written during fsync in no journal mode

When there is no journal present, we must attach buffer heads
associated with extent tree and indirect blocks to the inode's
mapping->private_list via mark_buffer_dirty_inode() so that
ext4_sync_file() --- which is called to service fsync() and
fdatasync() system calls --- can write out the inode's metadata blocks
by calling sync_mapping_buffers().

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c
index ecb9ca455fd5..6a9409920dee 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c
@@ -89,7 +89,10 @@ int __ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(const char *where, handle_t *handle,
                         ext4_journal_abort_handle(where, __func__, bh,
                                                   handle, err);
         } else {
-                mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
+                if (inode && bh)
+                        mark_buffer_dirty_inode(bh, inode);
+                else
+                        mark_buffer_dirty(bh);
                 if (inode && inode_needs_sync(inode)) {
                         sync_dirty_buffer(bh);
                         if (buffer_req(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh)) {