The quilt patch titled Subject: fat: ignore ctime updates, and keep ctime identical to mtime in memory has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was fat-ignore-ctime-updates-and-keep-ctime-identical-to-mtime-in-memory.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Chung-Chiang Cheng <cccheng@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fat: ignore ctime updates, and keep ctime identical to mtime in memory Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 23:25:34 +0800 FAT supports creation time but not change time, and there was no corresponding timestamp for creation time in previous VFS. The original implementation took the compromise of saving the in-memory change time into the on-disk creation time field, but this would lead to compatibility issues with non-linux systems. To address this issue, this patch changes the behavior of ctime. It will no longer be loaded and stored from the creation time on disk. Instead of that, it'll be consistent with the in-memory mtime and share the same on-disk field. All updates to mtime will also be applied to ctime in memory, while all updates to ctime will be ignored. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220503152536.2503003-2-cccheng@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Chung-Chiang Cheng <cccheng@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/fat/inode.c | 11 ++++------- fs/fat/misc.c | 9 ++++++--- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/fs/fat/inode.c~fat-ignore-ctime-updates-and-keep-ctime-identical-to-mtime-in-memory +++ a/fs/fat/inode.c @@ -567,12 +567,11 @@ int fat_fill_inode(struct inode *inode, & ~((loff_t)sbi->cluster_size - 1)) >> 9; fat_time_fat2unix(sbi, &inode->i_mtime, de->time, de->date, 0); - if (sbi->options.isvfat) { - fat_time_fat2unix(sbi, &inode->i_ctime, de->ctime, - de->cdate, de->ctime_cs); + inode->i_ctime = inode->i_mtime; + if (sbi->options.isvfat) fat_time_fat2unix(sbi, &inode->i_atime, 0, de->adate, 0); - } else - fat_truncate_time(inode, &inode->i_mtime, S_ATIME|S_CTIME); + else + inode->i_atime = fat_truncate_atime(sbi, &inode->i_mtime); return 0; } @@ -888,8 +887,6 @@ retry: &raw_entry->date, NULL); if (sbi->options.isvfat) { __le16 atime; - fat_time_unix2fat(sbi, &inode->i_ctime, &raw_entry->ctime, - &raw_entry->cdate, &raw_entry->ctime_cs); fat_time_unix2fat(sbi, &inode->i_atime, &atime, &raw_entry->adate, NULL); } --- a/fs/fat/misc.c~fat-ignore-ctime-updates-and-keep-ctime-identical-to-mtime-in-memory +++ a/fs/fat/misc.c @@ -347,10 +347,13 @@ int fat_truncate_time(struct inode *inod if (flags & S_ATIME) inode->i_atime = fat_truncate_atime(sbi, now); - if (flags & S_CTIME) - inode->i_ctime = fat_truncate_crtime(sbi, now); + /* + * ctime and mtime share the same on-disk field, and should be + * identical in memory. all mtime updates will be applied to ctime, + * but ctime updates are ignored. + */ if (flags & S_MTIME) - inode->i_mtime = fat_truncate_mtime(sbi, now); + inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = fat_truncate_mtime(sbi, now); return 0; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from cccheng@xxxxxxxxxxxx are