[PATCH v3] Btrfs: fix sync fs to actually wait for all data to be persisted

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Currently the fs sync function (super.c:btrfs_sync_fs()) doesn't
wait for delayed work to finish before returning success to the
caller. This change fixes this, ensuring that there's no data loss
if a power failure happens right after fs sync returns success to
the caller and before the next commit happens.

Steps to reproduce the data loss issue:

$ mkfs.btrfs -f /dev/sdb3
$ mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/btrfs
$ perl -e '$d = ("\x41" x 6001); open($f,">","/mnt/btrfs/foobar"); print $f $d; close($f);' && btrfs fi sync /mnt/btrfs

Right after the btrfs fi sync command (a second or 2 for example), power
off the machine and reboot it. The file will be empty, as it can be verified
after mounting the filesystem and through btrfs-debug-tree:

$ btrfs-debug-tree /dev/sdb3 | egrep '\(257 INODE_ITEM 0\) itemoff' -B 3 -A 8
        item 3 key (256 DIR_INDEX 2) itemoff 3751 itemsize 36
                location key (257 INODE_ITEM 0) type FILE
                namelen 6 datalen 0 name: foobar
        item 4 key (257 INODE_ITEM 0) itemoff 3591 itemsize 160
                inode generation 7 transid 7 size 0 block group 0 mode 100644 links 1
        item 5 key (257 INODE_REF 256) itemoff 3575 itemsize 16
                inode ref index 2 namelen 6 name: foobar
checksum tree key (CSUM_TREE ROOT_ITEM 0)
leaf 29429760 items 0 free space 3995 generation 7 owner 7
fs uuid 6192815c-af2a-4b75-b3db-a959ffb6166e
chunk uuid b529c44b-938c-4d3d-910a-013b4700bcae
uuid tree key (UUID_TREE ROOT_ITEM 0)

After this patch, the data loss no longer happens after a power failure and
btrfs-debug-tree shows:

$ btrfs-debug-tree /dev/sdb3 | egrep '\(257 INODE_ITEM 0\) itemoff' -B 3 -A 8
	item 3 key (256 DIR_INDEX 2) itemoff 3751 itemsize 36
		location key (257 INODE_ITEM 0) type FILE
		namelen 6 datalen 0 name: foobar
	item 4 key (257 INODE_ITEM 0) itemoff 3591 itemsize 160
		inode generation 6 transid 6 size 6001 block group 0 mode 100644 links 1
	item 5 key (257 INODE_REF 256) itemoff 3575 itemsize 16
		inode ref index 2 namelen 6 name: foobar
	item 6 key (257 EXTENT_DATA 0) itemoff 3522 itemsize 53
		extent data disk byte 12845056 nr 8192
		extent data offset 0 nr 8192 ram 8192
		extent compression 0
checksum tree key (CSUM_TREE ROOT_ITEM 0)

Signed-off-by: Filipe David Borba Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxxx>
---

V2: Use writeback_inodes_sb() instead of btrfs_start_all_delalloc_inodes(), as
    suggested by Miao Xie.
V3: Use btrfs_start_all_delalloc_inodes() instead but outside btrfs_sync_fs(),
    in the sync IOCTL handler. Using writeback_inodes_sb() is not very honest
    because it doesn't guarantee inode data is persisted and we have no way
    to know if persistence really happened or not, returning 0 (success) always.
    Thanks Liu Bo for the suggestion.


 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 9d46f60..8792fc8 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -4557,9 +4557,15 @@ long btrfs_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int
 		return btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino(root, argp);
 	case BTRFS_IOC_SPACE_INFO:
 		return btrfs_ioctl_space_info(root, argp);
-	case BTRFS_IOC_SYNC:
+	case BTRFS_IOC_SYNC: {
+		int ret;
+
+		ret = btrfs_start_all_delalloc_inodes(root->fs_info, 0);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
 		btrfs_sync_fs(file->f_dentry->d_sb, 1);
 		return 0;
+	}
 	case BTRFS_IOC_START_SYNC:
 		return btrfs_ioctl_start_sync(root, argp);
 	case BTRFS_IOC_WAIT_SYNC:
-- 
1.7.9.5

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