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    NFS: Fix another fsync() issue after a server reboot · 67f4b5dc
    Trond Myklebust authored
    Currently, when the writeback code detects a server reboot, it redirties
    any pages that were not committed to disk, and it sets the flag
    NFS_CONTEXT_RESEND_WRITES in the nfs_open_context of the file descriptor
    that dirtied the file. While this allows the file descriptor in question
    to redrive its own writes, it violates the fsync() requirement that we
    should be synchronising all writes to disk.
    While the problem is infrequent, we do see corner cases where an
    untimely server reboot causes the fsync() call to abandon its attempt to
    sync data to disk and causing data corruption issues due to missed error
    conditions or similar.
    
    In order to tighted up the client's ability to deal with this situation
    without introducing livelocks, add a counter that records the number of
    times pages are redirtied due to a server reboot-like condition, and use
    that in fsync() to redrive the sync to disk.
    
    Fixes: 2197e9b0 ("NFS: Fix up fsync() when the server rebooted")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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