add a vfs_fsync helper

Fsync currently has a fdatawrite/fdatawait pair around the method call,
and a mutex_lock/unlock of the inode mutex.  All callers of fsync have
to duplicate this, but we have a few and most of them don't quite get
it right.  This patch adds a new vfs_fsync that takes care of this.
It's a little more complicated as usual as ->fsync might get a NULL file
pointer and just a dentry from nfsd, but otherwise gets afile and we
want to take the mapping and file operations from it when it is there.

Notes on the fsync callers:

 - ecryptfs wasn't calling filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait on the
   	lower file
 - coda wasn't calling filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait on the host
	file, and returning 0 when ->fsync was missing
 - shm wasn't calling either filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait nor
   taking i_mutex.  Now given that shared memory doesn't have disk
   backing not doing anything in fsync seems fine and I left it out of
   the vfs_fsync conversion for now, but in that case we might just
   not pass it through to the lower file at all but just call the no-op
   simple_sync_file directly.

[and now actually export vfs_fsync]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/msync.c b/mm/msync.c
index 144a7570535d..07dae08cf31c 100644
--- a/mm/msync.c
+++ b/mm/msync.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
                                 (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
                         get_file(file);
                         up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-                        error = do_fsync(file, 0);
+                        error = vfs_fsync(file, file->f_path.dentry, 0);
                         fput(file);
                         if (error || start >= end)
                                 goto out;