Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] vfs: update overlay inode times on lease_get_mtime()

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On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 12:54 AM, J . Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 02:26:49PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
>> Instead of looking for all the places that update inode's m_time,
>> update overlay inode i_mtime just before nfsd needs to read it.
>>
>> The non uptodate mtime issue was found and verified with the
>> nfstest_posix test when run over NFS exported overlayfs:
>>
>>  $ nfstest_posix --runtest=link,write
>>  ...
>>  FAIL: link - parent directory st_mtime should be updated
>>  FAIL: write - file st_mtime should be updated
>
> Grepping for users of i_mtime in fs/nfsd/....
>
> Looks like we might need something similar for fill_pre_wcc() ?  (And
> maybe nfsd4_block_commit_blocks() ?)
>
> I don't think it's necessary for do_nfsd_create(), but it should be
> harmless if we want to just make it a rule that nfsd shouldn't be
> accessing i_mtime directly.
>

All right. I'll do that.
While at it, do you think it will be fine to call vfs_getattr() from a helper
nfsd_get_inode_mtime() instead of having to special case overlayfs?
Or is there some reason why accessing i_mtime is a requirement?

Thanks,
Amir.
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