Prevent data corruption in logfs_rewrite_block()
The comment was correct, so make the code match the comment. As the
new comment indicates, we might be able to do a little less work. But
for the current -rc series let's keep it simple and just fix the bug.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
diff --git a/fs/logfs/readwrite.c b/fs/logfs/readwrite.c
index 7a23b3e..c3a3a68 100644
--- a/fs/logfs/readwrite.c
+++ b/fs/logfs/readwrite.c
@@ -1594,7 +1594,6 @@
return ret;
}
-/* Rewrite cannot mark the inode dirty but has to write it immediatly. */
int logfs_rewrite_block(struct inode *inode, u64 bix, u64 ofs,
gc_level_t gc_level, long flags)
{
@@ -1611,6 +1610,18 @@
if (level != 0)
alloc_indirect_block(inode, page, 0);
err = logfs_write_buf(inode, page, flags);
+ if (!err && shrink_level(gc_level) == 0) {
+ /* Rewrite cannot mark the inode dirty but has to
+ * write it immediatly.
+ * Q: Can't we just create an alias for the inode
+ * instead? And if not, why not?
+ */
+ if (inode->i_ino == LOGFS_INO_MASTER)
+ logfs_write_anchor(inode->i_sb);
+ else {
+ err = __logfs_write_inode(inode, flags);
+ }
+ }
}
logfs_put_write_page(page);
return err;