From 55ab3a1ff843e3f0e24d2da44e71bffa5d853010 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 14:34:58 -0700 Subject: raw: fsync method is now required Commit 148f948ba877f4d3cdef036b1ff6d9f68986706a (vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode) broke the raw driver. We now call through generic_file_aio_write -> generic_write_sync -> vfs_fsync_range. vfs_fsync_range has: if (!fop || !fop->fsync) { ret = -EINVAL; goto out; } But drivers/char/raw.c doesn't set an fsync method. We have two options: fix it or remove the raw driver completely. I'm happy to do either, the fact this has been broken for so long suggests it is rarely used. The patch below adds an fsync method to the raw driver. My knowledge of the block layer is pretty sketchy so this could do with a once over. If we instead decide to remove the raw driver, this patch might still be useful as a backport to 2.6.33 and 2.6.32. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer Tested-by: Jeff Moyer Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/block_dev.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/block_dev.c') diff --git a/fs/block_dev.c b/fs/block_dev.c index d11d0289f3d..8db62b2b6df 100644 --- a/fs/block_dev.c +++ b/fs/block_dev.c @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static loff_t block_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin) * NULL first argument is nfsd_sync_dir() and that's not a directory. */ -static int block_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) +int block_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) { struct block_device *bdev = I_BDEV(filp->f_mapping->host); int error; @@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ static int block_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync) error = 0; return error; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL(block_fsync); /* * pseudo-fs -- cgit v1.2.3