From ccd4bb1beb3316de4611de24d223ad761b5a7e95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve French Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:39:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [CIFS] Don't cache timestamps on utimes due to coarse granularity force revalidate of the file when any of the timestamps are set since some filesytem types do not have finer granularity timestamps and we can not always detect which file systems round timestamps down to determine whether we can cache the mtime on setattr samba bugzilla 3775 Acked-by: Shirish Pargaonkar Signed-off-by: Steve French --- fs/cifs/inode.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c index cf18ee765590..e3fda978f481 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/inode.c +++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c @@ -1762,8 +1762,18 @@ cifs_setattr_unix(struct dentry *direntry, struct iattr *attrs) CIFS_MOUNT_MAP_SPECIAL_CHR); } - if (!rc) + if (!rc) { rc = inode_setattr(inode, attrs); + + /* force revalidate when any of these times are set since some + of the fs types (eg ext3, fat) do not have fine enough + time granularity to match protocol, and we do not have a + a way (yet) to query the server fs's time granularity (and + whether it rounds times down). + */ + if (!rc && (attrs->ia_valid & (ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_CTIME))) + cifsInode->time = 0; + } out: kfree(args); kfree(full_path); -- 2.20.1