5.18 fixed the btrfs and ext4 fallocates to use file_modified(), as xfs was already doing, to drop privileges: and fstests generic/{683,684,688} expect this. There's no need to argue over keep-size allocation (which could just update ctime): fix shmem_fallocate() to behave the same way. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/shmem.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/shmem.c +++ b/mm/shmem.c @@ -2839,12 +2839,13 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, if (!(mode & FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE) && offset + len > inode->i_size) i_size_write(inode, offset + len); - inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode); undone: spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); inode->i_private = NULL; spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); out: + if (!error) + file_modified(file); inode_unlock(inode); return error; }