vfs: Fix sys_sync() and fsync_super() reliability (version 4)

So far, do_sync() called:
  sync_inodes(0);
  sync_supers();
  sync_filesystems(0);
  sync_filesystems(1);
  sync_inodes(1);

This ordering makes it kind of hard for filesystems as sync_inodes(0) need not
submit all the IO (for example it skips inodes with I_SYNC set) so e.g. forcing
transaction to disk in ->sync_fs() is not really enough. Therefore sys_sync has
not been completely reliable on some filesystems (ext3, ext4, reiserfs, ocfs2
and others are hit by this) when racing e.g. with background writeback. A
similar problem hits also other filesystems (e.g. ext2) because of
write_supers() being called before the sync_inodes(1).

Change the ordering of calls in do_sync() - this requires a new function
sync_blockdevs() to preserve the property that block devices are always synced
after write_super() / sync_fs() call.

The same issue is fixed in __fsync_super() function used on umount /
remount read-only.

[AV: build fixes]

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 3d9f117dd2a..18d159dc1e4 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ void __fsync_super(struct super_block *sb)
 {
 	sync_inodes_sb(sb, 0);
 	vfs_dq_sync(sb);
+	sync_inodes_sb(sb, 1);
 	lock_super(sb);
 	if (sb->s_dirt && sb->s_op->write_super)
 		sb->s_op->write_super(sb);
@@ -300,7 +301,6 @@ void __fsync_super(struct super_block *sb)
 	if (sb->s_op->sync_fs)
 		sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, 1);
 	sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
-	sync_inodes_sb(sb, 1);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -522,6 +522,33 @@ restart:
 	mutex_unlock(&mutex);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
+/*
+ *  Sync all block devices underlying some superblock
+ */
+void sync_blockdevs(void)
+{
+	struct super_block *sb;
+
+	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
+restart:
+	list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
+		if (!sb->s_bdev)
+			continue;
+		sb->s_count++;
+		spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+		down_read(&sb->s_umount);
+		if (sb->s_root)
+			sync_blockdev(sb->s_bdev);
+		up_read(&sb->s_umount);
+		spin_lock(&sb_lock);
+		if (__put_super_and_need_restart(sb))
+			goto restart;
+	}
+	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
+}
+#endif
+
 /**
  *	get_super - get the superblock of a device
  *	@bdev: device to get the superblock for