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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-02-09 15:18:09 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2014-02-09 15:18:09 -0500
commitd311d79de305f1ada47cadd672e6ed1b28a949eb (patch)
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fix O_SYNC|O_APPEND syncing the wrong range on write()
It actually goes back to 2004 ([PATCH] Concurrent O_SYNC write support) when sync_page_range() had been introduced; generic_file_write{,v}() correctly synced pos_after_write - written .. pos_after_write - 1 but generic_file_aio_write() synced pos_before_write .. pos_before_write + written - 1 instead. Which is not the same thing with O_APPEND, obviously. A couple of years later correct variant had been killed off when everything switched to use of generic_file_aio_write(). All users of generic_file_aio_write() are affected, and the same bug has been copied into other instances of ->aio_write(). The fix is trivial; the only subtle point is that generic_write_sync() ought to be inlined to avoid calculations useless for the majority of calls. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sync.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/sync.c17
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index f15537452231..e8ba024a055b 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -222,23 +222,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(fdatasync, unsigned int, fd)
return do_fsync(fd, 1);
}
-/**
- * generic_write_sync - perform syncing after a write if file / inode is sync
- * @file: file to which the write happened
- * @pos: offset where the write started
- * @count: length of the write
- *
- * This is just a simple wrapper about our general syncing function.
- */
-int generic_write_sync(struct file *file, loff_t pos, loff_t count)
-{
- if (!(file->f_flags & O_DSYNC) && !IS_SYNC(file->f_mapping->host))
- return 0;
- return vfs_fsync_range(file, pos, pos + count - 1,
- (file->f_flags & __O_SYNC) ? 0 : 1);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_write_sync);
-
/*
* sys_sync_file_range() permits finely controlled syncing over a segment of
* a file in the range offset .. (offset+nbytes-1) inclusive. If nbytes is