[PATCH 3/4] ubifs: fix bogus __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) call

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Wed Feb 21 07:54:48 PST 2018


I_DIRTY_DATASYNC is a strict superset of I_DIRTY_SYNC semantics, as
in mark dirty to be written out by fdatasync as well.  So dirtying
for both flags makes no sense.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
---
 fs/ubifs/file.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
index cf348ba99238..1acb2ff505e6 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ static int do_setattr(struct ubifs_info *c, struct inode *inode,
 		 * Inode length changed, so we have to make sure
 		 * @I_DIRTY_DATASYNC is set.
 		 */
-		 __mark_inode_dirty(inode, I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC);
+		 __mark_inode_dirty(inode, I_DIRTY_DATASYNC);
 	else
 		mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
 	mutex_unlock(&ui->ui_mutex);
-- 
2.14.2




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