Re: utimensat fails to update ctime

Christoph Hellwig
2009-12-22T17:44:30Z

This patch which I had in my QA queue for a while should fix all the
timestamp update issues in XFS:

Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c 2009-12-21 16:24:28.470990760 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c 2009-12-21 16:32:41.348990760 +0100
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ xfs_setattr(
uint commit_flags=0;
uid_t uid=0, iuid=0;
gid_t gid=0, igid=0;
- int timeflags = 0;
struct xfs_dquot *udqp, *gdqp, *olddquot1, *olddquot2;
int need_iolock = 1;

@@ -135,16 +134,13 @@ xfs_setattr(
if (flags & XFS_ATTR_NOLOCK)
need_iolock = 0;
if (!(mask & ATTR_SIZE)) {
- if ((mask != (ATTR_CTIME|ATTR_ATIME|ATTR_MTIME)) ||
- (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_WSYNC)) {
- tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_SETATTR_NOT_SIZE);
- commit_flags = 0;
- if ((code = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, 0,
- XFS_ICHANGE_LOG_RES(mp), 0,
- 0, 0))) {
- lock_flags = 0;
- goto error_return;
- }
+ tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_SETATTR_NOT_SIZE);
+ commit_flags = 0;
+ code = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, 0, XFS_ICHANGE_LOG_RES(mp),
+ 0, 0, 0);
+ if (code) {
+ lock_flags = 0;
+ goto error_return;
}
} else {
if (DM_EVENT_ENABLED(ip, DM_EVENT_TRUNCATE) &&
@@ -295,15 +291,23 @@ xfs_setattr(
* or we are explicitly asked to change it. This handles
* the semantic difference between truncate() and ftruncate()
* as implemented in the VFS.
- */
- if (iattr->ia_size != ip->i_size || (mask & ATTR_CTIME))
- timeflags |= XFS_ICHGTIME_MOD | XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG;
+ *
+ * The regular truncate() case without ATTR_CTIME and ATTR_MTIME
+ * is a special case where we need to update the times despite
+ * not having these flags set. For all other operations the
+ * VFS set these flags explicitly if it wants a timestamp
+ * update.
+ */
+ if (iattr->ia_size != ip->i_size &&
+ (!(mask & (ATTR_CTIME | ATTR_MTIME)))) {
+ iattr->ia_ctime = iattr->ia_mtime =
+ current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
+ mask |= ATTR_CTIME | ATTR_MTIME;
+ }

if (iattr->ia_size > ip->i_size) {
ip->i_d.di_size = iattr->ia_size;
ip->i_size = iattr->ia_size;
- if (!(flags & XFS_ATTR_DMI))
- xfs_ichgtime(ip, XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG);
xfs_trans_log_inode(tp, ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE);
} else if (iattr->ia_size <= ip->i_size ||
(iattr->ia_size == 0 && ip->i_d.di_nextents)) {
@@ -374,9 +378,6 @@ xfs_setattr(
ip->i_d.di_gid = gid;
inode->i_gid = gid;
}
-
- xfs_trans_log_inode (tp, ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE);
- timeflags |= XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG;
}

/*
@@ -393,51 +394,37 @@ xfs_setattr(

inode->i_mode &= S_IFMT;
inode->i_mode |= mode & ~S_IFMT;
-
- xfs_trans_log_inode(tp, ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE);
- timeflags |= XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG;
}

/*
* Change file access or modified times.
*/
- if (mask & (ATTR_ATIME|ATTR_MTIME)) {
- if (mask & ATTR_ATIME) {
- inode->i_atime = iattr->ia_atime;
- ip->i_d.di_atime.t_sec = iattr->ia_atime.tv_sec;
- ip->i_d.di_atime.t_nsec = iattr->ia_atime.tv_nsec;
- ip->i_update_core = 1;
- }
- if (mask & ATTR_MTIME) {
- inode->i_mtime = iattr->ia_mtime;
- ip->i_d.di_mtime.t_sec = iattr->ia_mtime.tv_sec;
- ip->i_d.di_mtime.t_nsec = iattr->ia_mtime.tv_nsec;
- timeflags &= ~XFS_ICHGTIME_MOD;
- timeflags |= XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG;
- }
- if (tp && (mask & (ATTR_MTIME_SET|ATTR_ATIME_SET)))
- xfs_trans_log_inode (tp, ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE);
+ if (mask & ATTR_ATIME) {
+ inode->i_atime = iattr->ia_atime;
+ ip->i_d.di_atime.t_sec = iattr->ia_atime.tv_sec;
+ ip->i_d.di_atime.t_nsec = iattr->ia_atime.tv_nsec;
+ ip->i_update_core = 1;
}
-
- /*
- * Change file inode change time only if ATTR_CTIME set
- * AND we have been called by a DMI function.
- */
-
- if ((flags & XFS_ATTR_DMI) && (mask & ATTR_CTIME)) {
+ if (mask & ATTR_CTIME) {
inode->i_ctime = iattr->ia_ctime;
ip->i_d.di_ctime.t_sec = iattr->ia_ctime.tv_sec;
ip->i_d.di_ctime.t_nsec = iattr->ia_ctime.tv_nsec;
ip->i_update_core = 1;
- timeflags &= ~XFS_ICHGTIME_CHG;
+ }
+ if (mask & ATTR_MTIME) {
+ inode->i_mtime = iattr->ia_mtime;
+ ip->i_d.di_mtime.t_sec = iattr->ia_mtime.tv_sec;
+ ip->i_d.di_mtime.t_nsec = iattr->ia_mtime.tv_nsec;
+ ip->i_update_core = 1;
}

/*
- * Send out timestamp changes that need to be set to the
- * current time. Not done when called by a DMI function.
+ * And finally, log the inode core if any attribute in it
+ * has been changed.
*/
- if (timeflags && !(flags & XFS_ATTR_DMI))
- xfs_ichgtime(ip, timeflags);
+ if (mask & (ATTR_UID|ATTR_GID|ATTR_MODE|
+ ATTR_ATIME|ATTR_CTIME|ATTR_MTIME))
+ xfs_trans_log_inode(tp, ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE);

XFS_STATS_INC(xs_ig_attrchg);

@@ -452,12 +439,10 @@ xfs_setattr(
* mix so this probably isn't worth the trouble to optimize.
*/
code = 0;
- if (tp) {
- if (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_WSYNC)
- xfs_trans_set_sync(tp);
+ if (mp->m_flags & XFS_MOUNT_WSYNC)
+ xfs_trans_set_sync(tp);

- code = xfs_trans_commit(tp, commit_flags);
- }
+ code = xfs_trans_commit(tp, commit_flags);

xfs_iunlock(ip, lock_flags);

Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_acl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_acl.c 2009-12-21 16:31:51.838990759 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_acl.c 2009-12-21 16:32:17.471990759 +0100
@@ -251,8 +251,9 @@ xfs_set_mode(struct inode *inode, mode_t
if (mode != inode->i_mode) {
struct iattr iattr;

- iattr.ia_valid = ATTR_MODE;
+ iattr.ia_valid = ATTR_MODE | ATTR_CTIME;
iattr.ia_mode = mode;
+ iattr.ia_ctime = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);

error = -xfs_setattr(XFS_I(inode), &iattr, XFS_ATTR_NOACL);
}