Commit 762a80d9 authored by Mikulas Patocka's avatar Mikulas Patocka Committed by Alasdair G Kergon

dm snapshot: flush disk cache when merging

This patch makes dm-snapshot flush disk cache when writing metadata for
merging snapshot.

Without cache flushing the disk may reorder metadata write and other
data writes and there is a possibility of data corruption in case of
power fault.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
parent 6140333d
......@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ static int persistent_commit_merge(struct dm_exception_store *store,
for (i = 0; i < nr_merged; i++)
clear_exception(ps, ps->current_committed - 1 - i);
r = area_io(ps, WRITE);
r = area_io(ps, WRITE_FLUSH_FUA);
if (r < 0)
return r;
......
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