linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/shmem: tmpfs fallocate use file

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Date:   Fri, 12 Aug 2022 10:20:56 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/shmem: tmpfs fallocate use file_modified()

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 09:55:36PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 5.18 fixed the btrfs and ext4 fallocates to use file_modified(), as xfs
> was already doing, to drop privileges: and fstests generic/{683,684,688}
> expect this.  There's no need to argue over keep-size allocation (which
> could just update ctime): fix shmem_fallocate() to behave the same way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
> ---

Looks good to me,
Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@...nel.org>