fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()

Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
unconditional syncfs().  This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
remounted read-only.

However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
actually depending on this behavior.  In most file systems, it's
probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
like romfs).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fat/inode.c b/fs/fat/inode.c
index 854b578f6695..343e477c6dcb 100644
--- a/fs/fat/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fat/inode.c
@@ -635,6 +635,8 @@ static int fat_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
         struct msdos_sb_info *sbi = MSDOS_SB(sb);
         *flags |= MS_NODIRATIME | (sbi->options.isvfat ? 0 : MS_NOATIME);
 
+        sync_filesystem(sb);
+
         /* make sure we update state on remount. */
         new_rdonly = *flags & MS_RDONLY;
         if (new_rdonly != (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {