The series is aimed at adding support to maintain individual timestamp ranges for filesystems. This helps futimens, utimensat and utimes syscalls to conform to POSIX defined behavior when the time being set is outside of the corresponding filesystem's supported limits. The series was developed with discussions and guidance from Arnd Bergmann. The original thread is at https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/2/294 I will be submitting follow up kernel patches to update all filesystems. Currently ext4 is the only filesystem that reflects correct limits. The branch is available at https://github.com/deepa-hub/vfs.git refs/heads/range Changes since v5: * Dropped y2038-specific changes Changes since v4: * Added documentation for boot param Changes since v3: * Remove redundant initializations in libfs.c * Change early_param to __setup similar to other root mount options. * Fix documentation warning Changes since v2: * Introduce early boot param override for checks. * Drop afs patch for timestamp limits. Changes since v1: * return EROFS on mount errors * fix mtime copy/paste error in utimes Deepa Dinamani (4): vfs: Add file timestamp range support ext4: Initialize timestamps limits vfs: Add timestamp_truncate() api utimes: Clamp the timestamps before update fs/ext4/ext4.h | 4 ++++ fs/ext4/super.c | 7 ++++++- fs/inode.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- fs/super.c | 2 ++ fs/utimes.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- include/linux/fs.h | 3 +++ include/linux/time64.h | 2 ++ 7 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -- 2.14.1 Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
