From: Mikulas Patocka This patch makes dm-snapshot flush disk cache when writing metadata for merging snapshot. Without cache flushing the disk may reorder metadata write and other data writes and there is a possibility of data corruption in case of power fault. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon --- drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-3.0/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.0.orig/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c +++ linux-3.0/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c @@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ static int persistent_commit_merge(struc for (i = 0; i < nr_merged; i++) clear_exception(ps, ps->current_committed - 1 - i); - r = area_io(ps, WRITE); + r = area_io(ps, WRITE_FLUSH_FUA); if (r < 0) return r;