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Stacked filesystems like overlayfs has no own writeback, but they have to
forward syncfs() requests to backend for keeping data integrity.
During global sync() each overlayfs instance calls method ->sync_fs() for
backend although it itself is in global list of superblocks too. As a
result one syscall sync() could write one superblock several times and send
multiple disk barriers.
This patch adds flag SB_I_SKIP_SYNC into sb->sb_iflags to avoid that.
Reported-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmtrmonakhov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Stable-dep-of: b836c4d29f ("ima: detect changes to the backing overlay file")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Konstantin Khlebnikov
8c85e455f7