Commit 4b813f09 authored Sep 22, 2015 by Andrew Price Committed by Bob Peterson Sep 22, 2015

GFS2: fallocate: do not rely on file_update_time to mark the inode dirty



Previously __gfs2_fallocate() relied on file_update_time() marking the
inode dirty, but that's not a safe assumption as that function doesn't
dirty the inode in some cases. Mark the inode dirty explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Price <anprice@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>

parent 6ff33f39

fs/gfs2/file.c

+1 −1

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		@@ -897,8 +897,8 @@ static long __gfs2_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t

		if (!(mode & FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE) && (pos + count) > inode->i_size) {
		i_size_write(inode, pos + count);
		/* Marks the inode as dirty */
		file_update_time(file);
		mark_inode_dirty(inode);
		}

		return generic_write_sync(file, pos, count);