[PATCH 6.1 51/64] ksmbd: set ATTR_CTIME flags when setting mtime

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-02-17T20:47:51Z

From: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 21e46a79bbe6c4e1aa73b3ed998130f2ff07b128 ]

David reported that the new warning from setattr_copy_mgtime is coming
like the following.

[ 113.215316] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 113.215974] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 31 at fs/attr.c:300 setattr_copy+0x1ee/0x200
[ 113.219192] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 31 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc1+ #234
[ 113.220127] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-3-gd478f380-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
[ 113.221530] Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work [ksmbd]
[ 113.222220] RIP: 0010:setattr_copy+0x1ee/0x200
[ 113.222833] Code: 24 28 49 8b 44 24 30 48 89 53 58 89 43 6c 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc 48 89 df e8 77 d6 ff ff e9 cd fe ff ff <0f> 0b e9 be fe ff ff 66 0
[ 113.225110] RSP: 0018:ffffaf218010fb68 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 113.225765] RAX: 0000000000000120 RBX: ffffa446815f8568 RCX: 0000000000000003
[ 113.226667] RDX: ffffaf218010fd38 RSI: ffffa446815f8568 RDI: ffffffff94eb03a0
[ 113.227531] RBP: ffffaf218010fb90 R08: 0000001a251e217d R09: 00000000675259fa
[ 113.228426] R10: 0000000002ba8a6d R11: ffffa4468196c7a8 R12: ffffaf218010fd38
[ 113.229304] R13: 0000000000000120 R14: ffffffff94eb03a0 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 113.230210] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa44739d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 113.231215] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 113.232055] CR2: 00007efe0053d27e CR3: 000000000331a000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
[ 113.232926] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 113.233812] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 113.234797] Call Trace:
[ 113.235116] <TASK>
[ 113.235393] ? __warn+0x73/0xd0
[ 113.235802] ? setattr_copy+0x1ee/0x200
[ 113.236299] ? report_bug+0xf3/0x1e0
[ 113.236757] ? handle_bug+0x4d/0x90
[ 113.237202] ? exc_invalid_op+0x13/0x60
[ 113.237689] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
[ 113.238185] ? setattr_copy+0x1ee/0x200
[ 113.238692] btrfs_setattr+0x80/0x820 [btrfs]
[ 113.239285] ? get_stack_info_noinstr+0x12/0xf0
[ 113.239857] ? __module_address+0x22/0xa0
[ 113.240368] ? handle_ksmbd_work+0x6e/0x460 [ksmbd]
[ 113.240993] ? __module_text_address+0x9/0x50
[ 113.241545] ? __module_address+0x22/0xa0
[ 113.242033] ? unwind_next_frame+0x10e/0x920
[ 113.242600] ? __pfx_stack_trace_consume_entry+0x10/0x10
[ 113.243268] notify_change+0x2c2/0x4e0
[ 113.243746] ? stack_depot_save_flags+0x27/0x730
[ 113.244339] ? set_file_basic_info+0x130/0x2b0 [ksmbd]
[ 113.244993] set_file_basic_info+0x130/0x2b0 [ksmbd]
[ 113.245613] ? process_scheduled_works+0xbe/0x310
[ 113.246181] ? worker_thread+0x100/0x240
[ 113.246696] ? kthread+0xc8/0x100
[ 113.247126] ? ret_from_fork+0x2b/0x40
[ 113.247606] ? ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 113.248132] smb2_set_info+0x63f/0xa70 [ksmbd]

ksmbd is trying to set the atime and mtime via notify_change without also
setting the ctime. so This patch add ATTR_CTIME flags when setting mtime
to avoid a warning.

Reported-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
[ Minor conflict resolved. ]
Signed-off-by: Li hongliang <1468888505@139.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 10 +++-------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
@@ -5739,15 +5739,13 @@ static int set_file_basic_info(struct ks
attrs.ia_valid |= (ATTR_ATIME | ATTR_ATIME_SET);
}

- attrs.ia_valid |= ATTR_CTIME;
if (file_info->ChangeTime)
- attrs.ia_ctime = ksmbd_NTtimeToUnix(file_info->ChangeTime);
- else
- attrs.ia_ctime = inode->i_ctime;
+ inode_set_ctime_to_ts(inode,
+ ksmbd_NTtimeToUnix(file_info->ChangeTime));

if (file_info->LastWriteTime) {
attrs.ia_mtime = ksmbd_NTtimeToUnix(file_info->LastWriteTime);
- attrs.ia_valid |= (ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_MTIME_SET);
+ attrs.ia_valid |= (ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_MTIME_SET | ATTR_CTIME);
}

if (file_info->Attributes) {
@@ -5789,8 +5787,6 @@ static int set_file_basic_info(struct ks
return -EACCES;

inode_lock(inode);
- inode->i_ctime = attrs.ia_ctime;
- attrs.ia_valid &= ~ATTR_CTIME;
rc = notify_change(user_ns, dentry, &attrs, NULL);
inode_unlock(inode);
}