Re: [PATCH 05/20] utimes: Clamp the timestamps before update

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On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 8:15 AM Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 06:49:09PM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> > POSIX is ambiguous on the behavior of timestamps for
> > futimens, utimensat and utimes. Whether to return an
> > error or silently clamp a timestamp beyond the range
> > supported by the underlying filesystems is not clear.
> >
> > POSIX.1 section for futimens, utimensat and utimes says:
> > (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/futimens.html)
> >
> > The file's relevant timestamp shall be set to the greatest
> > value supported by the file system that is not greater
> > than the specified time.
> >
> > If the tv_nsec field of a timespec structure has the special
> > value UTIME_NOW, the file's relevant timestamp shall be set
> > to the greatest value supported by the file system that is
> > not greater than the current time.
> >
> > [EINVAL]
> >     A new file timestamp would be a value whose tv_sec
> >     component is not a value supported by the file system.
> >
> > The patch chooses to clamp the timestamps according to the
> > filesystem timestamp ranges and does not return an error.
> > This is in line with the behavior of utime syscall also
> > since the POSIX page(http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/utime.html)
> > for utime does not mention returning an error or clamping like above.
> >
> > Same for utimes http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/utimes.html
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  fs/utimes.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
> >  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c
> > index 350c9c16ace1..4c1a2ce90bbc 100644
> > --- a/fs/utimes.c
> > +++ b/fs/utimes.c
> > @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ static int utimes_common(const struct path *path, struct timespec64 *times)
> >       int error;
> >       struct iattr newattrs;
> >       struct inode *inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
> > +     struct super_block *sb = inode->i_sb;
> >       struct inode *delegated_inode = NULL;
> >
> >       error = mnt_want_write(path->mnt);
> > @@ -36,16 +37,24 @@ static int utimes_common(const struct path *path, struct timespec64 *times)
> >               if (times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT)
> >                       newattrs.ia_valid &= ~ATTR_ATIME;
> >               else if (times[0].tv_nsec != UTIME_NOW) {
> > -                     newattrs.ia_atime.tv_sec = times[0].tv_sec;
> > -                     newattrs.ia_atime.tv_nsec = times[0].tv_nsec;
> > +                     newattrs.ia_atime.tv_sec =
> > +                             clamp(times[0].tv_sec, sb->s_time_min, sb->s_time_max);
> > +                     if (times[0].tv_sec == sb->s_time_max || times[0].tv_sec == sb->s_time_min)
> > +                             newattrs.ia_atime.tv_nsec = 0;
> > +                     else
> > +                             newattrs.ia_atime.tv_nsec = times[0].tv_nsec;
> >                       newattrs.ia_valid |= ATTR_ATIME_SET;
> >               }
> >
> >               if (times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT)
> >                       newattrs.ia_valid &= ~ATTR_MTIME;
> >               else if (times[1].tv_nsec != UTIME_NOW) {
> > -                     newattrs.ia_mtime.tv_sec = times[1].tv_sec;
> > -                     newattrs.ia_mtime.tv_nsec = times[1].tv_nsec;
> > +                     newattrs.ia_mtime.tv_sec =
> > +                             clamp(times[1].tv_sec, sb->s_time_min, sb->s_time_max);
> > +                     if (times[1].tv_sec >= sb->s_time_max || times[1].tv_sec == sb->s_time_min)
>
> Line length.
>
> Also, didn't you just introduce a function to clamp tv_sec and fix
> granularity?  Why not just use it here?  I think this is the third time
> I've seen this open-coded logic.

Yes, we can use that now. Earlier we were not setting the tv_nsec to 0
in timestamp_truncate() which is why this was opencoded here.
I will make the change to include this.

Thanks,
Deepa



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