From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> When we're flushing the unix IO manager's buffer cache, we should always fsync the block device, because something could have written to the block device -- either the buffer cache itself, or a direct write. Regardless, the callers all want all dirtied regions to be persisted to stable media. Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c b/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c index ede75cf8ee3681..40fd9cc1427c31 100644 --- a/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c +++ b/lib/ext2fs/unix_io.c @@ -1452,7 +1452,8 @@ static errcode_t unix_flush(io_channel channel) retval = flush_cached_blocks(channel, data, 0); #endif #ifdef HAVE_FSYNC - if (!retval && fsync(data->dev) != 0) + /* always fsync the device, even if flushing our own cache failed */ + if (fsync(data->dev) != 0 && !retval) return errno; #endif return retval;
