This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

afs: Populate and use client modification time

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: afs-populate-and-use-client-modification-time.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:47:43 CET 2017

From: Marc Dionne marc.dionne@auristor.com Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:27:47 +0000 Subject: afs: Populate and use client modification time

From: Marc Dionne marc.dionne@auristor.com

[ Upstream commit ab94f5d0dd6fd82e7eeca5e7c8096eaea0a0261f ]

The inode timestamps should be set from the client time in the status received from the server, rather than the server time which is meant for internal server use.

Set AFS_SET_MTIME and populate the mtime for operations that take an input status, such as file/dir creation and StoreData. If an input time is not provided the server will set the vnode times based on the current server time.

In a situation where the server has some skew with the client, this could lead to the client seeing a timestamp in the future for a file that it just created or wrote.

Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne marc.dionne@auristor.com Signed-off-by: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/afs/fsclient.c | 18 +++++++++--------- fs/afs/inode.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/afs/fsclient.c +++ b/fs/afs/fsclient.c @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ static void xdr_decode_AFSFetchStatus(co vnode->vfs_inode.i_mode = mode; }

- vnode->vfs_inode.i_ctime.tv_sec = status->mtime_server; + vnode->vfs_inode.i_ctime.tv_sec = status->mtime_client; vnode->vfs_inode.i_mtime = vnode->vfs_inode.i_ctime; vnode->vfs_inode.i_atime = vnode->vfs_inode.i_ctime; vnode->vfs_inode.i_version = data_version; @@ -703,8 +703,8 @@ int afs_fs_create(struct afs_server *ser memset(bp, 0, padsz); bp = (void *) bp + padsz; } - *bp++ = htonl(AFS_SET_MODE); - *bp++ = 0; /* mtime */ + *bp++ = htonl(AFS_SET_MODE | AFS_SET_MTIME); + *bp++ = htonl(vnode->vfs_inode.i_mtime.tv_sec); /* mtime */ *bp++ = 0; /* owner */ *bp++ = 0; /* group */ *bp++ = htonl(mode & S_IALLUGO); /* unix mode */ @@ -981,8 +981,8 @@ int afs_fs_symlink(struct afs_server *se memset(bp, 0, c_padsz); bp = (void *) bp + c_padsz; } - *bp++ = htonl(AFS_SET_MODE); - *bp++ = 0; /* mtime */ + *bp++ = htonl(AFS_SET_MODE | AFS_SET_MTIME); + *bp++ = htonl(vnode->vfs_inode.i_mtime.tv_sec); /* mtime */ *bp++ = 0; /* owner */ *bp++ = 0; /* group */ *bp++ = htonl(S_IRWXUGO); /* unix mode */ @@ -1192,8 +1192,8 @@ static int afs_fs_store_data64(struct af *bp++ = htonl(vnode->fid.vnode); *bp++ = htonl(vnode->fid.unique);

- *bp++ = 0; /* mask */ - *bp++ = 0; /* mtime */ + *bp++ = htonl(AFS_SET_MTIME); /* mask */ + *bp++ = htonl(vnode->vfs_inode.i_mtime.tv_sec); /* mtime */ *bp++ = 0; /* owner */ *bp++ = 0; /* group */ *bp++ = 0; /* unix mode */ @@ -1269,8 +1269,8 @@ int afs_fs_store_data(struct afs_server *bp++ = htonl(vnode->fid.vnode); *bp++ = htonl(vnode->fid.unique);

- *bp++ = 0; /* mask */ - *bp++ = 0; /* mtime */ + *bp++ = htonl(AFS_SET_MTIME); /* mask */ + *bp++ = htonl(vnode->vfs_inode.i_mtime.tv_sec); /* mtime */ *bp++ = 0; /* owner */ *bp++ = 0; /* group */ *bp++ = 0; /* unix mode */ --- a/fs/afs/inode.c +++ b/fs/afs/inode.c @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ static int afs_inode_map_status(struct a inode->i_uid = vnode->status.owner; inode->i_gid = vnode->status.group; inode->i_size = vnode->status.size; - inode->i_ctime.tv_sec = vnode->status.mtime_server; + inode->i_ctime.tv_sec = vnode->status.mtime_client; inode->i_ctime.tv_nsec = 0; inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime; inode->i_blocks = 0;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marc.dionne@auristor.com are

queue-4.4/afs-populate-group-id-from-vnode-status.patch queue-4.4/afs-adjust-mode-bits-processing.patch queue-4.4/afs-populate-and-use-client-modification-time.patch