[PATCH 4.14 24/27] ext4: use ext4_write_inode() when fsyncing w/o a journal

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>

commit ad211f3e94b314a910d4af03178a0b52a7d1ee0a upstream.

In no-journal mode, we previously used __generic_file_fsync() in
no-journal mode.  This triggers a lockdep warning, and in addition,
it's not safe to depend on the inode writeback mechanism in the case
ext4.  We can solve both problems by calling ext4_write_inode()
directly.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/ext4/fsync.c |   13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/fsync.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fsync.c
@@ -116,8 +116,16 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, lo
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	ret = file_write_and_wait_range(file, start, end);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	if (!journal) {
-		ret = __generic_file_fsync(file, start, end, datasync);
+		struct writeback_control wbc = {
+			.sync_mode = WB_SYNC_ALL
+		};
+
+		ret = ext4_write_inode(inode, &wbc);
 		if (!ret)
 			ret = ext4_sync_parent(inode);
 		if (test_opt(inode->i_sb, BARRIER))
@@ -125,9 +133,6 @@ int ext4_sync_file(struct file *file, lo
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	ret = file_write_and_wait_range(file, start, end);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
 	/*
 	 * data=writeback,ordered:
 	 *  The caller's filemap_fdatawrite()/wait will sync the data.