From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 04:16:05 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [patch for 2.6.26 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or... X-Git-Tag: v2.6.26-rc9~99^2~9 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=94c70b9ba7e9c1036284e779e2fef5be89021533;p=linux-2.6 [patch for 2.6.26 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW The POSIX.1 draft spec for utimensat() says that if a times[n].tv_nsec field is UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW, then the value in the corresponding tv_sec field is ignored. See the last sentence of this para, from the spec: If the tv_nsec field of a timespec structure has the special value UTIME_NOW, the file's relevant timestamp shall be set to the greatest value supported by the file system that is not greater than the current time. If the tv_nsec field has the special value UTIME_OMIT, the file's relevant timestamp shall not be changed. In either case, the tv_sec field shall be ignored. However the current Linux implementation requires the tv_sec value to be zero (or the EINVAL error results). This requirement should be removed. Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Al Viro Cc: Ulrich Drepper Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c index 14d3edbb3d..d466bc587e 100644 --- a/fs/utimes.c +++ b/fs/utimes.c @@ -173,14 +173,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_utimensat(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct timespec __ if (utimes) { if (copy_from_user(&tstimes, utimes, sizeof(tstimes))) return -EFAULT; - if ((tstimes[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT || - tstimes[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW) && - tstimes[0].tv_sec != 0) - return -EINVAL; - if ((tstimes[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT || - tstimes[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW) && - tstimes[1].tv_sec != 0) - return -EINVAL; /* Nothing to do, we must not even check the path. */ if (tstimes[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT &&