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ext4: honor O_(D)SYNC semantic in ext4_fallocate()

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Ext4 must make sure the transaction to be commited to the disk when
user opens a file with O_(D)SYNC flag and do a fallocate(2) call.

This problem had been reported by Christoph Hellwig in this thread:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg13621.html

Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Zheng Liu 2012-06-30 19:12:57 -04:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
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commit f4e95b3316
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@ -4420,6 +4420,8 @@ long ext4_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
ext4_falloc_update_inode(inode, mode, new_size,
(map.m_flags & EXT4_MAP_NEW));
ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
if ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) && ret >= max_blocks)
ext4_handle_sync(handle);
ret2 = ext4_journal_stop(handle);
if (ret2)
break;