From d311d79de305f1ada47cadd672e6ed1b28a949eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2014 15:18:09 -0500 Subject: 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 --- fs/sync.c | 17 ----------------- 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/sync.c') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2