Re: [PATCH 5/6] xfs: clamp timestamp nanoseconds correctly

["Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 08:15:57AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 11:07:15PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
> > 
> > LOLLM noticed an off-by-one error in the nsec clamping; fix that so that
> > we never have tv_nsec == 1e9.
> 
> Hah..  
> 
> >  {
> > -	ts->tv_nsec = clamp_t(long, ts->tv_nsec, 0, NSEC_PER_SEC);
> > +	ts->tv_nsec = clamp_t(long, ts->tv_nsec, 0, NSEC_PER_SEC - 1);
> >  	*ts = timestamp_truncate(*ts, VFS_I(ip));
> 
> Looks good:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> 
> But I'd really expect this would be handled by core timing/timestamp
> helpers.

I'd have thought so too, but timestamp_truncate doesn't clamp tv_nsec to
[0, 1e9) because it assumes that callers (mostly the vfs) already did
that.

--D