From 3cd886666ff19e9796a519e16d94fc94f79c8a4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Deepa Dinamani Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 07:48:02 -0700 Subject: vfs: Add current_time() api current_fs_time() is used for inode timestamps. Change the signature of the function to take inode pointer instead of superblock as per Linus's suggestion. Also, move the api under vfs as per the discussion on the thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/9/36 . As per Arnd's suggestion on the thread, changing the function name. current_fs_time() will be deleted after all the references to it are replaced by current_time(). There was a bug reported by kbuild test bot with the change as some of the calls to current_time() were made before the super_block was initialized. Catch these accidental assignments as timespec_trunc() does for wrong granularities. This allows for the function to work right even in these circumstances. But, adds a warning to make the user aware of the bug. A coccinelle script was used to identify all the current .alloc_inode super_block callbacks that updated inode timestamps. proc filesystem was the only one that was modifying inode times as part of this callback. The series includes a patch to fix that. Note that timespec_trunc() will also be moved to fs/inode.c in a separate patch when this will need to be revamped for bounds checking purposes. Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- include/linux/fs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 901e25d495cc..32ce6b31a61b 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -1459,6 +1459,7 @@ static inline void i_gid_write(struct inode *inode, gid_t gid) } extern struct timespec current_fs_time(struct super_block *sb); +extern struct timespec current_time(struct inode *inode); /* * Snapshotting support. -- cgit v1.2.3