linux-ext4 - [PATCH 3/4] ext4: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl

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Message-Id: <1275664075-4703-4-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
Date:	Fri,  4 Jun 2010 17:07:54 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] ext4: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl

ext4 didn't update the ctime of the file when its permission was changed.

Steps to reproduce:
 # touch aaa
 # stat -c %Z aaa
 1275289822
 # setfacl -m  'u::x,g::x,o::x' aaa
 # stat -c %Z aaa
 1275289822                         <- unchanged

But, according to the spec of the ctime, ext4 must update it.

Port of ext3 patch by Miao Xie <miaox@...fujitsu.com>.

CC: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
CC: tytso@....edu
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
 fs/ext4/acl.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.c b/fs/ext4/acl.c
index feaf498..5e2ed45 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c
@@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ ext4_set_acl(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, int type,
 				return error;
 			else {
 				inode->i_mode = mode;
+				inode->i_ctime = ext4_current_time(inode);
 				ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, inode);
 				if (error == 0)
 					acl = NULL;
-- 
1.6.4.2

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