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Message-ID: <175259401527.1095462.15384402941904177297.b4-ty@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:42:02 -0400
From: Chuck Lever <cel@...nel.org>
To: NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>,
	Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@...hat.com>,
	Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@...cle.com>,
	Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsd: don't set the ctime on delegated atime updates

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>

On Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:34:10 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Clients will typically precede a DELEGRETURN for a delegation with
> delegated timestamp with a SETATTR to set the timestamps on the server
> to match what the client has.
> 
> knfsd implements this by using the nfsd_setattr() infrastructure, which
> will set ATTR_CTIME on any update that goes to notify_change(). This is
> problematic as it means that the client will get a spurious ctime
> updates when updating the atime.
> 
> [...]

Applied to nfsd-testing, thanks!

Because this patch touches generic attribute handling, I'm targeting
it for v6.18.

[1/1] nfsd: don't set the ctime on delegated atime updates
      commit: aaf2b07a551950a6e4deab07f6cf73c4a6592a35

--
Chuck Lever


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