[PATCH 1/2] fs: initialize inode->__i_ctime to the epoch

[Jeff Layton]

With the advent of multigrain timestamps, we use inode_set_ctime_current
to set the ctime, which can skip updating if the existing ctime appears
to be in the future. Because we don't initialize this field at
allocation time, that could prevent the ctime from being initialized
properly when the inode is instantiated.

Always initialize the ctime field to the epoch so that the filesystem
can set the timestamps properly later.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202309071017.a64aca5e-oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/inode.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 35fd688168c5..54237f4242ff 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ int inode_init_always(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode)
 	inode->i_fop = &no_open_fops;
 	inode->i_ino = 0;
 	inode->__i_nlink = 1;
+	inode->__i_ctime.tv_sec = 0;
+	inode->__i_ctime.tv_nsec = 0;
 	inode->i_opflags = 0;
 	if (sb->s_xattr)
 		inode->i_opflags |= IOP_XATTR;

-- 
2.41.0