[PATCH] afs: Fix setting of mtime when creating a file/dir/symlink

From: David Howells
Date: Wed May 31 2023 - 18:51:06 EST



kafs incorrectly passes a zero mtime (ie. 1st Jan 1970) to the server when
creating a file, dir or symlink because commit 52af7105eceb caused the
mtime recorded in the afs_operation struct to be passed to the server, but
didn't modify the afs_mkdir(), afs_create() and afs_symlink() functions to
set it first.

Those functions were written with the assumption that the mtime would be
obtained from the server - but that fell foul of malsynchronised clocks, so
it was decided that the mtime should be set from the client instead.

Fix this by filling in op->mtime before calling the create op.

Fixes: 52af7105eceb ("afs: Set mtime from the client for yfs create operations")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
fs/afs/dir.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
index 4dd97afa536c..5219182e52e1 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
@@ -1358,6 +1358,7 @@ static int afs_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
op->dentry = dentry;
op->create.mode = S_IFDIR | mode;
op->create.reason = afs_edit_dir_for_mkdir;
+ op->mtime = current_time(dir);
op->ops = &afs_mkdir_operation;
return afs_do_sync_operation(op);
}
@@ -1661,6 +1662,7 @@ static int afs_create(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
op->dentry = dentry;
op->create.mode = S_IFREG | mode;
op->create.reason = afs_edit_dir_for_create;
+ op->mtime = current_time(dir);
op->ops = &afs_create_operation;
return afs_do_sync_operation(op);

@@ -1796,6 +1798,7 @@ static int afs_symlink(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
op->ops = &afs_symlink_operation;
op->create.reason = afs_edit_dir_for_symlink;
op->create.symlink = content;
+ op->mtime = current_time(dir);
return afs_do_sync_operation(op);

error: