[PATCH] ext4: fix decoding of raw_inode timestamps

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Wed Jul 12 2023 - 11:03:07 EST


When we covert a timestamp from raw disk format, we need to consider it
to be signed, as the value may represent a date earlier than 1970. This
fixes generic/258 on ext4.

Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Fixes: f2ddb05870fb ("ext4: convert to ctime accessor functions")
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/ext4.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

It might be best to just squash this fix in with the ext4 conversion in
the vfs tree.

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index d63543187359..2af347669db7 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ static inline __le32 ext4_encode_extra_time(struct timespec64 ts)
static inline struct timespec64 ext4_decode_extra_time(__le32 base,
__le32 extra)
{
- struct timespec64 ts = { .tv_sec = le32_to_cpu(base) };
+ struct timespec64 ts = { .tv_sec = (signed)le32_to_cpu(base) };

if (unlikely(extra & cpu_to_le32(EXT4_EPOCH_MASK)))
ts.tv_sec += (u64)(le32_to_cpu(extra) & EXT4_EPOCH_MASK) << 32;
--
2.41.0