Patch "NFS: Ensure the server has an up to date ctime before hardlinking" has been added to the 4.19-stable tree

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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 4.19-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-4.19 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.



commit dbc5fbdd5c8d640b7f541d814dd6627707a28841
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 733fd9e4f0a15..f53304bd99fc7 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -2015,6 +2015,8 @@ 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) {
 		ihold(inode);



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