vfs: utimensat(): be consistent with utime() for immutable and append-only files
PATCH v2 2/4 vfs: utimensat(): be consistent with utime() for immutable and append-only files
This patch fixes utimensat() to make its behavior consistent with that of utime()/utimes() when dealing with files marked immutable and append-only.
The current utimensat() implementation also returns EPERM if 'times' is non-NULL and the tv_nsec fields are both UTIME_NOW. For consistency, the
(times != NULL && times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW &&
times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW)
case should be treated like the traditional utimes() case where 'times' is NULL. That is, the call should succeed for a file marked append-only and should give the error EACCES if the file is marked as immutable.
The simple way to do this is to set 'times' to NULL
if (times[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW && times[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW).
This is also the natural approach, since POSIX.1 semantics consider the times == {{x, UTIME_NOW}, {y, UTIME_NOW}}
to be exactly equivalent to the case for
times == NULL.
(Thanks to Miklos for pointing this out.)
Patch 3 in this series relies on the simplification provided by this patch.
fs/utimes.c +4 -0
@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@if (error) goto dput_and_out; +if (times && times[0 ].tv_nsec ==UTIME_NOW && + times[1 ].tv_nsec ==UTIME_NOW ) + times =NULL ; +/* Don't worry, the checks are done in inode_change_ok() */ newattrs.ia_valid =ATTR_CTIME |ATTR_MTIME |ATTR_ATIME ;if (times) {