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Commit 418b0902 authored by Filipe Manana's avatar Filipe Manana Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: ensure fiemap doesn't race with writes when FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC is given



When FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC is given to fiemap the expectation is that that
are no concurrent writes and we get a stable view of the inode's extent
layout.

When the flag is given we flush all IO (and wait for ordered extents to
complete) and then lock the inode in shared mode, however that leaves open
the possibility that a write might happen right after the flushing and
before locking the inode. So fix this by flushing again after locking the
inode - we leave the initial flushing before locking the inode to avoid
holding the lock and blocking other RO operations while waiting for IO
and ordered extents to complete. The second flushing while holding the
inode's lock will most of the time do nothing or very little since the
time window for new writes to have happened is small.

Reviewed-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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