Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs-2.6: (21 commits)
  ext3: PTR_ERR return of wrong pointer in setup_new_group_blocks()
  ext3: Fix data / filesystem corruption when write fails to copy data
  ext4: Support for 64-bit quota format
  ext3: Support for vfsv1 quota format
  quota: Implement quota format with 64-bit space and inode limits
  quota: Move definition of QFMT_OCFS2 to linux/quota.h
  ext2: fix comment in ext2_find_entry about return values
  ext3: Unify log messages in ext3
  ext2: clear uptodate flag on super block I/O error
  ext2: Unify log messages in ext2
  ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"
  ext3: Don't update the superblock in ext3_statfs()
  ext3: journal all modifications in ext3_xattr_set_handle
  ext2: Explicitly assign values to on-disk enum of filetypes
  quota: Fix WARN_ON in lookup_one_len
  const: struct quota_format_ops
  ubifs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  afs: remove manual O_SYNC handling
  kill wait_on_page_writeback_range
  vfs: Implement proper O_SYNC semantics
  ...

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index d3c190c35fcc..87f97ba90ad1 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1656,6 +1656,15 @@ struct file *do_filp_open(int dfd, const char *pathname,
         int will_write;
         int flag = open_to_namei_flags(open_flag);
 
+        /*
+         * O_SYNC is implemented as __O_SYNC|O_DSYNC.  As many places only
+         * check for O_DSYNC if the need any syncing at all we enforce it's
+         * always set instead of having to deal with possibly weird behaviour
+         * for malicious applications setting only __O_SYNC.
+         */
+        if (open_flag & __O_SYNC)
+                open_flag |= O_DSYNC;
+
         if (!acc_mode)
                 acc_mode = MAY_OPEN | ACC_MODE(flag);