Nathan reported that he was seeing the new warning in setattr_copy_mgtime pop when starting podman containers. Overlayfs is trying to set the atime and mtime via notify_change without also setting the ctime. POSIX states that when the atime and mtime are updated via utimes() that we must also update the ctime to the current time. The situation with overlayfs copy-up is analogies, so add ATTR_CTIME to the bitmask. notify_change will fill in the value. Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- The new WARN_ON_ONCE in setattr_copy_mgtime caught a bug! Fix up overlayfs to ensure that the ctime on the upper inode is also updated when copying up the atime and mtime. --- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c index d1761ec5866a..ada3fcc9c6d5 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ static int ovl_set_timestamps(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *upperdentry, { struct iattr attr = { .ia_valid = - ATTR_ATIME | ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_ATIME_SET | ATTR_MTIME_SET, + ATTR_ATIME | ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_ATIME_SET | ATTR_MTIME_SET | ATTR_CTIME, .ia_atime = stat->atime, .ia_mtime = stat->mtime, }; --- base-commit: 9cb8e7c86ac793862e7bea7904b3426942bbd7ef change-id: 20230913-ctime-299173760dd9 Best regards, -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>