Re: [GIT PULL] nfsd changes for 5.18

[Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 06:33:04AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-07-10 at 16:42 +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> > > This patch regressed clients that support TIME_CREATE attribute.
> > > Starting with this patch client might think that server supports
> > > TIME_CREATE and start sending this attribute in its requests.
> > 
> > Indeed, e377a3e698fb ("nfsd: Add support for the birth time
> > attribute") does not include a change to nfsd4_decode_fattr4()
> > that decodes the birth time attribute.
> > 
> > I don't immediately see another storage protocol stack in our
> > kernel that supports a client setting the birth time, so NFSD
> > might have to ignore the client-provided value.
> > 
> 
> Cephfs allows this. My thinking at the time that I implemented it was
> that it should be settable for backup purposes, but this was possibly a
> mistake. On most filesystems, the btime seems to be equivalent to inode
> creation time and is read-only.

So supporting it as read-only seems reasonable.

Clearly, failing to decode the setattr attempt isn't the right way to do
that.  I'm not sure what exactly it should be doing--some kind of
permission error on any setattr containing TIME_CREATE?

--b.