From 8121aecbe073a880758ab5464a305361dbcb7134 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:45:07 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] xfs: fix periodic log flushing [Please take this patch for -stable in kernels 3.5-3.7. It doesn't have an equivalent upstream commit because the code was removed before the bug was discovered. See f661f1e0bf50 and 7e18530bef6a.] There is a logic inversion in xfssyncd_worker() which means that the log is not periodically forced or idled correctly. This means that metadata changes aggregated in memory do not get flushed in a timely manner, and hence if filesystem is not cleanly unmounted those changes can be lost. This loss can manifest itself even hours after the changes were made if the filesystem is left to idle without a sync() occurring between the last modification and the crash/shutdown occuring. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Ben Myers Signed-off-by: Ben Myers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c index 9500caf15acf..7bf85e887113 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ xfs_sync_worker( * cancel_delayed_work_sync on this work queue before tearing down * the ail and the log in xfs_log_unmount. */ - if (!(mp->m_super->s_flags & MS_ACTIVE) && + if ((mp->m_super->s_flags & MS_ACTIVE) && !(mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_RDONLY)) { /* dgc: errors ignored here */ if (mp->m_super->s_writers.frozen == SB_UNFROZEN && -- 2.39.5