Patch "ext4: fix fdatasync(2) after extent manipulation operations" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ext4: fix fdatasync(2) after extent manipulation operations

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ext4-fix-fdatasync-2-after-extent-manipulation-operations.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 13:24:55 -0400
Subject: ext4: fix fdatasync(2) after extent manipulation operations

From: Jan Kara <[email protected]>

commit 67a7d5f561f469ad2fa5154d2888258ab8e6df7c upstream.

Currently, extent manipulation operations such as hole punch, range zeroing, or extent shifting do not record the fact that file data has changed and thus fdatasync(2) has a work to do. As a result if we crash e.g. after a punch hole and fdatasync, user can still possibly see the punched out data after journal replay. Test generic/392 fails due to these problems.

Fix the problem by properly marking that file data has changed in these operations.

---
 fs/ext4/extents.c |    5 +++++
 fs/ext4/inode.c   |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

@@ -4902,6 +4902,8 @@ static long ext4_zero_range(struct file
 
 	/* Zero out partial block at the edges of the range */
 	ret = ext4_zero_partial_blocks(handle, inode, offset, len);
+	if (ret >= 0)
+		ext4_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, inode, 1);
 
 	if (file->f_flags & O_SYNC)
 		ext4_handle_sync(handle);

@@ -5597,6 +5599,7 @@ int ext4_collapse_range(struct inode *in
 		ext4_handle_sync(handle);
 	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);
 	ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
+	ext4_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, inode, 1);
 
 out_stop:
 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);

@@ -5770,6 +5773,8 @@ int ext4_insert_range(struct inode *inod
 	up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
 	if (IS_SYNC(inode))
 		ext4_handle_sync(handle);
+	if (ret >= 0)
+		ext4_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, inode, 1);
 
 out_stop:
 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);

@@ -3793,6 +3793,8 @@ int ext4_punch_hole(struct inode *inode,
 
 	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);
 	ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
+	if (ret >= 0)
+		ext4_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, inode, 1);
 out_stop:
 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
 out_dio:

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/ext4-fix-fdatasync-2-after-extent-manipulation-operations.patch queue-4.4/ext4-fix-seek_hole.patch