[PATCH] erofs: derive atime instead of leaving it empty

Gao Xiang hsiangkao at aol.com
Sun Nov 1 06:51:02 AEDT 2020


From: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at redhat.com>

EROFS has _only one_ ondisk timestamp (ctime is currently
documented and recorded, we might also record mtime instead
with a new compat feature if needed) for each extended inode
since EROFS isn't mainly for archival purposes so no need to
keep all timestamps on disk especially for Android scenarios
due to security concerns. Also, romfs/cramfs don't have their
own on-disk timestamp, and squashfs only records mtime instead.

Let's also derive access time from ondisk timestamp rather than
leaving it empty, and if mtime/atime for each file are really
needed for specific scenarios as well, we can also use xattrs
to record them then.

Reported-by: nl6720 <nl6720 at gmail.com>
[ Gao Xiang: It'd be better to backport for user-friendly concern. ]
Fixes: 431339ba9042 ("staging: erofs: add inode operations")
Cc: stable <stable at vger.kernel.org> # 4.19+
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at redhat.com>
---
 fs/erofs/inode.c | 21 +++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/erofs/inode.c b/fs/erofs/inode.c
index 139d0bed42f8..3e21c0e8adae 100644
--- a/fs/erofs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/erofs/inode.c
@@ -107,11 +107,9 @@ static struct page *erofs_read_inode(struct inode *inode,
 		i_gid_write(inode, le32_to_cpu(die->i_gid));
 		set_nlink(inode, le32_to_cpu(die->i_nlink));
 
-		/* ns timestamp */
-		inode->i_mtime.tv_sec = inode->i_ctime.tv_sec =
-			le64_to_cpu(die->i_ctime);
-		inode->i_mtime.tv_nsec = inode->i_ctime.tv_nsec =
-			le32_to_cpu(die->i_ctime_nsec);
+		/* extended inode has its own timestamp */
+		inode->i_ctime.tv_sec = le64_to_cpu(die->i_ctime);
+		inode->i_ctime.tv_nsec = le32_to_cpu(die->i_ctime_nsec);
 
 		inode->i_size = le64_to_cpu(die->i_size);
 
@@ -149,11 +147,9 @@ static struct page *erofs_read_inode(struct inode *inode,
 		i_gid_write(inode, le16_to_cpu(dic->i_gid));
 		set_nlink(inode, le16_to_cpu(dic->i_nlink));
 
-		/* use build time to derive all file time */
-		inode->i_mtime.tv_sec = inode->i_ctime.tv_sec =
-			sbi->build_time;
-		inode->i_mtime.tv_nsec = inode->i_ctime.tv_nsec =
-			sbi->build_time_nsec;
+		/* use build time for compact inodes */
+		inode->i_ctime.tv_sec = sbi->build_time;
+		inode->i_ctime.tv_nsec = sbi->build_time_nsec;
 
 		inode->i_size = le32_to_cpu(dic->i_size);
 		if (erofs_inode_is_data_compressed(vi->datalayout))
@@ -167,6 +163,11 @@ static struct page *erofs_read_inode(struct inode *inode,
 		goto err_out;
 	}
 
+	inode->i_mtime.tv_sec = inode->i_ctime.tv_sec;
+	inode->i_atime.tv_sec = inode->i_ctime.tv_sec;
+	inode->i_mtime.tv_nsec = inode->i_ctime.tv_nsec;
+	inode->i_atime.tv_nsec = inode->i_ctime.tv_nsec;
+
 	if (!nblks)
 		/* measure inode.i_blocks as generic filesystems */
 		inode->i_blocks = roundup(inode->i_size, EROFS_BLKSIZ) >> 9;
-- 
2.24.0



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