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commit fcc42338375a1e67b8568dbb558f8b784d0f3b01 upstream. If the origin device has a volatile write-back cache and the following events occur: 1: After finishing merge operation of one set of exceptions, merge_callback() is invoked. 2: Update the metadata in COW device tracking the merge completion. This update to COW device is flushed cleanly. 3: System crashes and the origin device's cache where the recent merge was completed has not been flushed. During the next cycle when we read the metadata from the COW device, we will skip reading those metadata whose merge was completed in step (1). This will lead to data loss/corruption. To address this, flush the origin device post merge IO before updating the metadata. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Akilesh Kailash <akailash@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.