From 769c76538f4a274f17b8d895475f97d4ab5cbeee 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 55ab3a1ff843e3f0e24d2da44e71bffa5d853010 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index f2f68ce547b..66b0705487b 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2214,6 +2214,7 @@ extern int generic_segment_checks(const struct iovec *iov, /* fs/block_dev.c */ extern ssize_t blkdev_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs, loff_t pos); +extern int block_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync); /* fs/splice.c */ extern ssize_t generic_file_splice_read(struct file *, loff_t *, -- cgit