The patch titled
Subject: mm/shmem: tmpfs fallocate use file_modified()
has been added to the -mm mm-hotfixes-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-shmem-tmpfs-fallocate-use-file_modified.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-shmem-tmpfs-fallocate-use-file_modified.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-hotfixes-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/shmem: tmpfs fallocate use file_modified()
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 21:55:36 -0700 (PDT)
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.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/39c5e62-4896-7795-c0a0-f79c50d4909@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Radoslaw Burny <rburny@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-shmem-tmpfs-fallocate-use-file_modified
+++ a/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2840,12 +2840,13 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file
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;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-shmem-fix-chattr-fsflags-support-in-tmpfs.patch
mm-shmem-tmpfs-fallocate-use-file_modified.patch
mm-shmem-shmem_replace_page-remember-nr_shmem.patch
