fs: Propagate write hints to the struct block_device inode

Write hints applied with F_SET_RW_HINT on a block device affect the
block device inode only. Propagate these hints to the inode associated
with struct block_device because that is the inode used when writing
back dirty pages.

Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Cc: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Cc: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Cc: Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

Author: bvanassche

fs/fcntl.c

@@ -317,6 +317,13 @@ static long fcntl_set_rw_hint(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 
 	WRITE_ONCE(inode->i_write_hint, hint);
 
+	/*
+	 * file->f_mapping->host may differ from inode. As an example,
+	 * blkdev_open() modifies file->f_mapping.
+	 */
+	if (file->f_mapping->host != inode)
+		WRITE_ONCE(file->f_mapping->host->i_write_hint, hint);
+
 	return 0;
 }