cifs: do not return atime less than mtime

Steve French · Steve French · commit 9b9c5bea0b96 · 2018-10-23T21:16:05.000-05:00
In network file system it is fairly easy for server and client
atime vs. mtime to get confused (and atime updated less frequently)
which we noticed broke some apps which expect atime &gt;= mtime

Also ignore relatime mount option (rather than error on it) since
relatime is basically what some network server fs are doing
(relatime).

Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg &lt;lsahlber@redhat.com&gt;
diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ static const match_table_t cifs_mount_option_tokens = {
 	{ Opt_ignore, "dev" },
 	{ Opt_ignore, "mand" },
 	{ Opt_ignore, "nomand" },
+	{ Opt_ignore, "relatime" },
 	{ Opt_ignore, "_netdev" },
 
 	{ Opt_err, NULL }
diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
@@ -3889,8 +3889,12 @@ static int cifs_readpage_worker(struct file *file, struct page *page,
 	else
 		cifs_dbg(FYI, "Bytes read %d\n", rc);
 
-	file_inode(file)->i_atime =
-		current_time(file_inode(file));
+	/* we do not want atime to be less than mtime, it broke some apps */
+	file_inode(file)->i_atime = current_time(file_inode(file));
+	if (timespec64_compare(&(file_inode(file)->i_atime), &(file_inode(file)->i_mtime)))
+		file_inode(file)->i_atime = file_inode(file)->i_mtime;
+	else
+		file_inode(file)->i_atime = current_time(file_inode(file));
 
 	if (PAGE_SIZE > rc)
 		memset(read_data + rc, 0, PAGE_SIZE - rc);
diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -162,7 +162,11 @@ cifs_fattr_to_inode(struct inode *inode, struct cifs_fattr *fattr)
 	cifs_revalidate_cache(inode, fattr);
 
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-	inode->i_atime = fattr->cf_atime;
+	/* we do not want atime to be less than mtime, it broke some apps */
+	if (timespec64_compare(&fattr->cf_atime, &fattr->cf_mtime))
+		inode->i_atime = fattr->cf_mtime;
+	else
+		inode->i_atime = fattr->cf_atime;
 	inode->i_mtime = fattr->cf_mtime;
 	inode->i_ctime = fattr->cf_ctime;
 	inode->i_rdev = fattr->cf_rdev;
