This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fs: add ctime accessors infrastructure
to the 6.1-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:
fs-add-ctime-accessors-infrastructure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9b6304c1d53745c300b86f202d0dcff395e2d2db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2023 14:58:10 -0400
Subject: fs: add ctime accessors infrastructure
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 9b6304c1d53745c300b86f202d0dcff395e2d2db upstream.
struct timespec64 has unused bits in the tv_nsec field that can be used
for other purposes. In future patches, we're going to change how the
inode->i_ctime is accessed in certain inodes in order to make use of
them. In order to do that safely though, we'll need to eradicate raw
accesses of the inode->i_ctime field from the kernel.
Add new accessor functions for the ctime that we use to replace them.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <20230705185812.579118-2-jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/inode.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
include/linux/fs.h | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -2502,6 +2502,22 @@ struct timespec64 current_time(struct in
EXPORT_SYMBOL(current_time);
/**
+ * inode_set_ctime_current - set the ctime to current_time
+ * @inode: inode
+ *
+ * Set the inode->i_ctime to the current value for the inode. Returns
+ * the current value that was assigned to i_ctime.
+ */
+struct timespec64 inode_set_ctime_current(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ struct timespec64 now = current_time(inode);
+
+ inode_set_ctime(inode, now.tv_sec, now.tv_nsec);
+ return now;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_set_ctime_current);
+
+/**
* in_group_or_capable - check whether caller is CAP_FSETID privileged
* @mnt_userns: user namespace of the mount @inode was found from
* @inode: inode to check
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1812,7 +1812,50 @@ static inline bool fsuidgid_has_mapping(
kgid_has_mapping(fs_userns, kgid);
}
-extern struct timespec64 current_time(struct inode *inode);
+struct timespec64 current_time(struct inode *inode);
+struct timespec64 inode_set_ctime_current(struct inode *inode);
+
+/**
+ * inode_get_ctime - fetch the current ctime from the inode
+ * @inode: inode from which to fetch ctime
+ *
+ * Grab the current ctime from the inode and return it.
+ */
+static inline struct timespec64 inode_get_ctime(const struct inode *inode)
+{
+ return inode->i_ctime;
+}
+
+/**
+ * inode_set_ctime_to_ts - set the ctime in the inode
+ * @inode: inode in which to set the ctime
+ * @ts: value to set in the ctime field
+ *
+ * Set the ctime in @inode to @ts
+ */
+static inline struct timespec64 inode_set_ctime_to_ts(struct inode *inode,
+ struct timespec64 ts)
+{
+ inode->i_ctime = ts;
+ return ts;
+}
+
+/**
+ * inode_set_ctime - set the ctime in the inode
+ * @inode: inode in which to set the ctime
+ * @sec: tv_sec value to set
+ * @nsec: tv_nsec value to set
+ *
+ * Set the ctime in @inode to { @sec, @nsec }
+ */
+static inline struct timespec64 inode_set_ctime(struct inode *inode,
+ time64_t sec, long nsec)
+{
+ struct timespec64 ts = { .tv_sec = sec,
+ .tv_nsec = nsec };
+
+ return inode_set_ctime_to_ts(inode, ts);
+}
/*
* Snapshotting support.
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/fs-add-ctime-accessors-infrastructure.patch
