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Theodore Ts'o committed 8fdd60f2ae3
Revert "ext4: use ext4_write_inode() when fsyncing w/o a journal"
This reverts commit ad211f3e94b314a910d4af03178a0b52a7d1ee0a.
As Jan Kara pointed out, this change was unsafe since it means we lose
the call to sync_mapping_buffers() in the nojournal case. The
original point of the commit was avoid taking the inode mutex (since
it causes a lockdep warning in generic/113); but we need the mutex in
order to call sync_mapping_buffers().
The real fix to this problem was discussed here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181025150540.259281-4-bvanassche@acm.org
The proposed patch was to fix a syzbot complaint, but the problem can
also demonstrated via "kvm-xfstests -c nojournal generic/113".
Multiple solutions were discused in the e-mail thread, but none have
landed in the kernel as of this writing. Anyway, commit
ad211f3e94b314 is absolutely the wrong way to suppress the lockdep, so
revert it.
Fixes: ad211f3e94b314a910d4af03178a0b52a7d1ee0a ("ext4: use ext4_write_inode() when fsyncing w/o a journal")
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>