The patch titled lutimesat: simplify utime(2) has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was lutimesat-simplify-utime2.patch This patch was dropped because it is obsolete ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: lutimesat: simplify utime(2) From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxxx> Rewrite via do_utimes() like compat_sys_utime(). Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/utimes.c | 50 +++++++------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/utimes.c~lutimesat-simplify-utime2 fs/utimes.c --- a/fs/utimes.c~lutimesat-simplify-utime2 +++ a/fs/utimes.c @@ -22,52 +22,16 @@ */ asmlinkage long sys_utime(char __user * filename, struct utimbuf __user * times) { - int error; - struct nameidata nd; - struct inode * inode; - struct iattr newattrs; + struct timeval tv[2]; - error = user_path_walk(filename, &nd); - if (error) - goto out; - inode = nd.dentry->d_inode; - - error = -EROFS; - if (IS_RDONLY(inode)) - goto dput_and_out; - - /* Don't worry, the checks are done in inode_change_ok() */ - newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_CTIME | ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_ATIME; if (times) { - error = -EPERM; - if (IS_APPEND(inode) || IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) - goto dput_and_out; - - error = get_user(newattrs.ia_atime.tv_sec, ×->actime); - newattrs.ia_atime.tv_nsec = 0; - if (!error) - error = get_user(newattrs.ia_mtime.tv_sec, ×->modtime); - newattrs.ia_mtime.tv_nsec = 0; - if (error) - goto dput_and_out; - - newattrs.ia_valid |= ATTR_ATIME_SET | ATTR_MTIME_SET; - } else { - error = -EACCES; - if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) - goto dput_and_out; - - if (current->fsuid != inode->i_uid && - (error = vfs_permission(&nd, MAY_WRITE)) != 0) - goto dput_and_out; + if (get_user(tv[0].tv_sec, ×->actime) || + get_user(tv[1].tv_sec, ×->modtime)) + return -EFAULT; + tv[0].tv_usec = 0; + tv[1].tv_usec = 0; } - mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); - error = notify_change(nd.dentry, &newattrs); - mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); -dput_and_out: - path_release(&nd); -out: - return error; + return do_utimes(AT_FDCWD, filename, times ? tv : NULL); } #endif _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxxx are git-parisc.patch allow-access-to-proc-pid-fd-after-setuid.patch fix-race-between-proc_get_inode-and-remove_proc_entry.patch utimensat-implementation.patch lutimesat-simplify-utime2.patch lutimesat-extend-do_utimes-with-flags.patch lutimesat-actual-syscall-and-wire-up-on-i386.patch lutimesat-compat-syscall-and-wire-up-on-x86_64.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html