From: liubaolin <liubaolin12138@163.com>
To: DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>,
Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>,
Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>
Cc: ntfs@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ntfs: flush the block device when syncing a directory
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:24:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1bf29aae-f8f1-4e70-9f06-eb34599bfa60@163.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261013145846.56415-3-charsyam@gmail.com>
在 2026/10/13 22:58, DaeMyung Kang 写道:
> ntfs_dir_fsync() writes directory metadata and calls sync_blockdev(),
> but does not flush the block device write cache. A successful fsync()
> can therefore leave the directory's metadata in a volatile device cache.
>
> Issue a cache flush after successful writeback and return any flush error.
> This matches the regular-file fsync and syncfs paths.
>
> With QEMU blkdebug injecting -EIO for flush_to_disk, fsync() on an NTFS
> directory returned 0 before this change while syncfs() returned -EIO.
> After this change, both return -EIO. A kretprobe confirmed the flush
> error in the directory fsync path.
>
> Fixes: 1e9ea7e04472 ("Revert "fs: Remove NTFS classic"")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>
> ---
> fs/ntfs/dir.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ntfs/dir.c b/fs/ntfs/dir.c
> index 5a0e21e7c283..fce10baa2b93 100644
> --- a/fs/ntfs/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/ntfs/dir.c
> @@ -1192,6 +1192,8 @@ static int ntfs_dir_fsync(struct file *filp, loff_t start, loff_t end,
> err = sync_blockdev(vi->i_sb->s_bdev);
> if (unlikely(err && !ret))
> ret = err;
> + if (!ret)
> + ret = blkdev_issue_flush(vi->i_sb->s_bdev);
> if (likely(!ret))
> ntfs_debug("Done.");
> else
Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@kylinos.cn>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-13 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-13 14:58 [PATCH 0/2] ntfs: handle block device cache flush in fsync paths DaeMyung Kang
2026-10-13 14:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] ntfs: report block device flush failures from fsync DaeMyung Kang
2026-10-13 23:24 ` liubaolin
2026-10-13 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] ntfs: flush the block device when syncing a directory DaeMyung Kang
2026-10-13 23:24 ` liubaolin [this message]
2026-10-13 23:24 ` [PATCH 0/2] ntfs: handle block device cache flush in fsync paths liubaolin
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