From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:55:41 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] fix fsync(dir) return value for ram-based filesystems
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.13-rc1~68^2~163
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[PATCH] fix fsync(dir) return value for ram-based filesystems

Any filesystem which is using simple_dir_operations will retunr -EINVAL for
fsync() on a directory.  Make it return zero instead.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 5025563e73..58101dff2c 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ struct file_operations simple_dir_operations = {
 	.llseek		= dcache_dir_lseek,
 	.read		= generic_read_dir,
 	.readdir	= dcache_readdir,
+	.fsync		= simple_sync_file,
 };
 
 struct inode_operations simple_dir_inode_operations = {