[PATCH 2/2] eCryptfs: Call lower ->flush() from ecryptfs_flush()

Colin King colin.king at canonical.com
Sat Sep 15 19:09:14 UTC 2012


From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at canonical.com>

Since eCryptfs only calls fput() on the lower file in
ecryptfs_release(), eCryptfs should call the lower filesystem's
->flush() from ecryptfs_flush().

If the lower filesystem implements ->flush(), then eCryptfs should try
to flush out any dirty pages prior to calling the lower ->flush(). If
the lower filesystem does not implement ->flush(), then eCryptfs has no
need to do anything in ecryptfs_flush() since dirty pages are now
written out to the lower filesystem in ecryptfs_release().

BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1047261

Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at canonical.com>
(upstream cherry pick 64e6651dcc10e9d2cc6230208a8e6c2cfd19ae18)
Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ecryptfs/file.c |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
index 44ce5c6..d45ba45 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c
@@ -275,8 +275,14 @@ out:
 
 static int ecryptfs_flush(struct file *file, fl_owner_t td)
 {
-	return file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE
-	       ? filemap_write_and_wait(file->f_mapping) : 0;
+	struct file *lower_file = ecryptfs_file_to_lower(file);
+
+	if (lower_file->f_op && lower_file->f_op->flush) {
+		filemap_write_and_wait(file->f_mapping);
+		return lower_file->f_op->flush(lower_file, td);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int ecryptfs_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
-- 
1.7.10.4





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