[PATCH v3 2/5] fs: Add inode_update_time_writable

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 04:22:09PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> This is like file_update_time, except that it acts on a struct inode *
>> instead of a struct file *.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
>> ---
>>  fs/inode.c         | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>>  include/linux/fs.h |  1 +
>>  2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>>

[...]

>> +
>> +int inode_update_time_writable(struct inode *inode)
>> +{
>> +     struct timespec now;
>> +     int sync_it = prepare_update_cmtime(inode, &now);
>> +     int ret;
>> +
>> +     if (!sync_it)
>> +             return 0;
>> +
>> +     /* sb_start_pagefault and update_time can both sleep. */
>> +     sb_start_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
>> +     ret = update_time(inode, &now, sync_it);
>> +     sb_end_pagefault(inode->i_sb);
>
> This gets called from the writeback path - you can't use
> sb_start_pagefault/sb_end_pagefault in that path.

The race I'm worried about is:

 - mmap
 - write to the mapping
 - remount ro
 - flush_cmtime -> inode_update_time_writable

This may be impossible, in which case I'm okay, but it's nice to have
a sanity check.  I'll see if I can figure out how to do that.

--Andy