Re: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH v7 06/13] ubifs: have ubifs_update_time use inode_update_timestamps

On Mon 07-08-23 15:38:37, Jeff Layton wrote:
> In later patches, we're going to drop the "now" parameter from the
> update_time operation. Prepare ubifs for this, by having it use the new
> inode_update_timestamps helper.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>

One comment below:

> diff --git a/fs/ubifs/file.c b/fs/ubifs/file.c
> index df9086b19cd0..2d0178922e19 100644
> --- a/fs/ubifs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/ubifs/file.c
> @@ -1397,15 +1397,9 @@ int ubifs_update_time(struct inode *inode, struct timespec64 *time,
>  		return err;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&ui->ui_mutex);
> -	if (flags & S_ATIME)
> -		inode->i_atime = *time;
> -	if (flags & S_CTIME)
> -		inode_set_ctime_to_ts(inode, *time);
> -	if (flags & S_MTIME)
> -		inode->i_mtime = *time;
> -
> -	release = ui->dirty;
> +	inode_update_timestamps(inode, flags);
>  	__mark_inode_dirty(inode, I_DIRTY_SYNC);
> +	release = ui->dirty;
>  	mutex_unlock(&ui->ui_mutex);

I think this is wrong. You need to keep sampling ui->dirty before calling
__mark_inode_dirty(). Otherwise you could release budget for inode update
you really need...

>  	if (release)
>  		ubifs_release_budget(c, &req);

									Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <[email protected]>
SUSE Labs, CR