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From: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	overlayfs <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ovl: fix timestamp limits
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:45:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABeXuvreoQkM1A3JBONtfD7uVLvC5MQ0hDRKX5rEQ_VUFGER8w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQ4uxhMqYWYnXfXrzU7Qtv8xpR6k_tR9CFSo01NLZSvqBOxsw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 8:06 AM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 5:48 PM Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 8:30 AM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Overlayfs timestamp overflow limits should be inherrited from upper
> > > filesystem.
> > >
> > > The current behavior, when overlayfs is over an underlying filesystem
> > > that does not support post 2038 timestamps (e.g. xfs), is that overlayfs
> > > overflows post 2038 timestamps instead of clamping them.
> >
> > How?  Isn't the clamping supposed to happen in the underlying filesystem anyway?
> >
>
> Not sure if it is supposed to be it doesn't.
> It happens in do_utimes() -> utimes_common()

Clamping also happens as part of current_time(). If this is called on
an inode belonging to the upper fs, then the timestamps are clamped to
those limits.

-Deepa

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-12 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-11  7:30 [PATCH] ovl: fix timestamp limits Amir Goldstein
2019-11-11 22:31 ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-11-12 15:48 ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-11-12 16:06   ` Amir Goldstein
2019-11-12 16:45     ` Deepa Dinamani [this message]
2019-11-12 16:49       ` Amir Goldstein
2019-11-12 16:56         ` Deepa Dinamani
2019-11-13 10:26     ` Miklos Szeredi
2019-11-13 11:26       ` Miklos Szeredi

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