According to the comment in the code and commit log, some apps expect atime >= mtime; but the introduced code results in atime==mtime. Fix the comparison to guard against atime<mtime. Fixes: 9b9c5bea0b96 ("cifs: do not return atime less than mtime") Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/cifs/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c index 8a76195e8a69..ca76a9287456 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/inode.c +++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ cifs_fattr_to_inode(struct inode *inode, struct cifs_fattr *fattr) spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); /* we do not want atime to be less than mtime, it broke some apps */ - if (timespec64_compare(&fattr->cf_atime, &fattr->cf_mtime)) + if (timespec64_compare(&fattr->cf_atime, &fattr->cf_mtime) < 0) inode->i_atime = fattr->cf_mtime; else inode->i_atime = fattr->cf_atime; -- 2.17.1