ovl: Sync upper dirty data when syncing overlayfs
authorChengguang Xu <cgxu@mykernel.net>
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 02:01:32 +0000 (10:01 +0800)
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:28:11 +0000 (11:28 +0100)
commite8d4bfe3a71537284a90561f77c85dea6c154369
tree24595228ee2b278fdffea719c43f692bf103e463
parentb02a16e6413a2f782e542ef60bad9ff6bf212f8a
ovl: Sync upper dirty data when syncing overlayfs

When executing filesystem sync or umount on overlayfs,
dirty data does not get synced as expected on upper filesystem.
This patch fixes sync filesystem method to keep data consistency
for overlayfs.

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu@mykernel.net>
Fixes: e593b2bf513d ("ovl: properly implement sync_filesystem()")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #4.11
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
fs/overlayfs/super.c