[PATCH] f2fs: fix to record both APPEND and UPDATE ino entries

From: Zhiguo Niu

Date: Wed Sep 09 2026 - 23:09:43 EST


In f2fs_post_evict_inode(), record_bits is assigned with BIT(APPEND_INO)
and BIT(UPDATE_INO) respectively, so the second assignment overwrites
the first one: when both FI_APPEND_WRITE and FI_UPDATE_WRITE are set,
only the UPDATE_INO entry is recorded.

The two flags are not mutually exclusive.Once the APPEND_INO entry is
lost after the inode eviction, the shortcut in f2fs_do_sync_file() can
take the flush_out path in the next fsync(), skipping f2fs_fsync_node_pages().
As a result, the dnodes holding the newly allocated blocks are not
fsync-marked, and after a sudden power loss, the data appended before the
eviction is silently lost.

This restores the previous behavior where the two ino entries were
added independently.

Fixes: 314c9e476ffc ("f2fs: call __add_ino_entry out of the eviction path")
Signed-off-by: Zhiguo Niu <zhiguo.niu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/f2fs/inode.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
index 82ebcb338b0c..c20fcd8c2b97 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
@@ -1058,9 +1058,9 @@ static void f2fs_post_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
goto skip_record;

if (is_inode_flag_set(inode, FI_APPEND_WRITE))
- record_bits = BIT(APPEND_INO);
+ record_bits |= BIT(APPEND_INO);
if (is_inode_flag_set(inode, FI_UPDATE_WRITE))
- record_bits = BIT(UPDATE_INO);
+ record_bits |= BIT(UPDATE_INO);

if (!record_bits)
goto skip_record;
--
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