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authorFrederic Weisbecker2009-10-18 01:09:09 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker2009-10-18 01:12:33 +0200
commit0f8f86c7bdd1c954fbe153af437a0d91a6c5721a (patch)
tree94a8d419a470a4f9852ca397bb9bbe48db92ff5c /fs/sync.c
parentMerge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-breakpoints (diff)
parentperf tools: Move dereference after NULL test (diff)
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Merge commit 'perf/core' into perf/hw-breakpoint
Conflicts: kernel/Makefile kernel/trace/Makefile kernel/trace/trace.h samples/Makefile Merge reason: We need to be uptodate with the perf events development branch because we plan to rewrite the breakpoints API on top of perf events.
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sync.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/sync.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sync.c b/fs/sync.c
index 192340930bb4..d104591b066b 100644
--- a/fs/sync.c
+++ b/fs/sync.c
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@
*/
static int __sync_filesystem(struct super_block *sb, int wait)
{
+ /*
+ * This should be safe, as we require bdi backing to actually
+ * write out data in the first place
+ */
+ if (!sb->s_bdi)
+ return 0;
+
/* Avoid doing twice syncing and cache pruning for quota sync */
if (!wait) {
writeout_quota_sb(sb, -1);
@@ -101,7 +108,7 @@ restart:
spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
down_read(&sb->s_umount);
- if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) && sb->s_root)
+ if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) && sb->s_root && sb->s_bdi)
__sync_filesystem(sb, wait);
up_read(&sb->s_umount);
@@ -176,6 +183,7 @@ int file_fsync(struct file *filp, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
ret = err;
return ret;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_fsync);
/**
* vfs_fsync_range - helper to sync a range of data & metadata to disk