This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFS: Ensure the server has an up to date ctime before hardlinking
to the 5.16-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nfs-ensure-the-server-has-an-up-to-date-ctime-before.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit b64b17ed39075186ce4d254ef85d2a27da49d4d3
Author: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Dec 15 16:38:15 2021 -0500
NFS: Ensure the server has an up to date ctime before hardlinking
[ Upstream commit 204975036b34f55237bc44c8a302a88468ef21b5 ]
Creating a hard link is required by POSIX to update the file ctime, so
ensure that the file data is synced to disk so that we don't clobber the
updated ctime by writing back after creating the hard link.
Fixes: 9f7682728728 ("NFS: Move the delegation return down into nfs4_proc_link()")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 731d31015b6aa..4c4fdb208c7ba 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -2379,6 +2379,8 @@ nfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
trace_nfs_link_enter(inode, dir, dentry);
d_drop(dentry);
+ if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
+ nfs_sync_inode(inode);
error = NFS_PROTO(dir)->link(inode, dir, &dentry->d_name);
if (error == 0) {
nfs_set_verifier(dentry, nfs_save_change_attribute(dir));
