[PATCH v2 5/7] fs: add an ATTR_CTIME_DLG flag

Jeff Layton
2024-08-26T12:46:45Z

When updating the ctime on an inode for a setattr with a multigrain
filesystem, we usually want to take the latest time we can get for the
ctime. The exception to this rule is when there is a nfsd write
delegation and the server is proxying timestamps from the client.

When nfsd gets a CB_GETATTR response, we want to update the timestamp
value in the inode to the values that the client is tracking. The client
doesn't send a ctime value (since that's always determined by the
exported filesystem), but it does send a mtime value. In the case where
it does, then we may also need to update the ctime to a value
commensurate with that.

Add a ATTR_CTIME_DELEG flag, which tells the underlying setattr
machinery to respect that value and not to set it to the current time.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
fs/attr.c | 10 +++++++++-
include/linux/fs.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c
index 7144b207e715..0eb7b228b94d 100644
--- a/fs/attr.c
+++ b/fs/attr.c
@@ -295,7 +295,15 @@ static void setattr_copy_mgtime(struct inode *inode, const struct iattr *attr)
return;
}

- now = inode_set_ctime_current(inode);
+ /*
+ * In the case of an update for a write delegation, we must respect
+ * the value in ia_ctime and not use the current time.
+ */
+ if (ia_valid & ATTR_CTIME_DLG)
+ inode_set_ctime_to_ts(inode, attr->ia_ctime);
+ else
+ now = inode_set_ctime_current(inode);
+
if (ia_valid & ATTR_ATIME_SET)
inode_set_atime_to_ts(inode, attr->ia_atime);
else if (ia_valid & ATTR_ATIME)
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 7c1da3c687bd..43a802b2cb0d 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ typedef int (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset,
#define ATTR_TIMES_SET (1 << 16)
#define ATTR_TOUCH (1 << 17)
#define ATTR_DELEG (1 << 18) /* Delegated attrs (don't break) */
+#define ATTR_CTIME_DLG (1 << 19) /* Delegation in effect */

/*
* Whiteout is represented by a char device. The following constants define the

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