Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] vfs: Add timestamp_truncate() api

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Jan 22 2018 - 15:26:04 EST


On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 6:04 PM, Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> + t.tv_nsec -= t.tv_nsec % gran;

This doesn't actuall ywork if tv_nsec is negative.

Which may not be an issue in most cases, but did somebody check
utimensat() or whatever?

> + WARN(1, "illegal file time granularity: %u", gran);

.. small nit: we generally should use 'invalid' rather than 'illegal'.

No cops will hunt you down for things like this.

Linus