From f9a348e0de19226fc3c7e81de7677d3fa2c4b2d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Layton Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:34:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] nfsd: don't set the ctime on delegated atime updates Clients will typically precede a DELEGRETURN for a delegation with delegated timestamp with a SETATTR to set the timestamps on the server to match what the client has. knfsd implements this by using the nfsd_setattr() infrastructure, which will set ATTR_CTIME on any update that goes to notify_change(). This is problematic as it means that the client will get a spurious ctime update when updating the atime. POSIX unfortunately doesn't phrase it succinctly, but updating the atime due to reads should not update the ctime. In this case, the client is sending a SETATTR to update the atime on the server to match its latest value. The ctime should not be advanced in this case as that would incorrectly indicate a change to the inode. Fix this by not implicitly setting ATTR_CTIME when ATTR_DELEG is set in __nfsd_setattr(). The decoder for FATTR4_WORD2_TIME_DELEG_MODIFY already sets ATTR_CTIME, so this is sufficient to make it skip setting the ctime on atime-only updates. Fixes: 7e13f4f8d27d ("nfsd: handle delegated timestamps in SETATTR") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever --- fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c index ee78b6fb17098..eaf04751d07fe 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c @@ -470,7 +470,15 @@ static int __nfsd_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *iap) if (!iap->ia_valid) return 0; - iap->ia_valid |= ATTR_CTIME; + /* + * If ATTR_DELEG is set, then this is an update from a client that + * holds a delegation. If this is an update for only the atime, the + * ctime should not be changed. If the update contains the mtime + * too, then ATTR_CTIME should already be set. + */ + if (!(iap->ia_valid & ATTR_DELEG)) + iap->ia_valid |= ATTR_CTIME; + return notify_change(&nop_mnt_idmap, dentry, iap, NULL); } -- 2.47.3