ext4: fix mtime update in nodelalloc mode

Commits 5e8830dc85d0 and 41c4d25f78c0 introduced a regression into
v3.6-rc1 for ext4 in nodealloc mode, such that mtime updates would not
take place for files modified via mmap if the page was already in the
page cache.  This would also affect ext3 file systems mounted using
the ext4 file system driver.

The problem was that ext4_page_mkwrite() had a shortcut which would
avoid calling __block_page_mkwrite() under some circumstances, and the
above two commit transferred the responsibility of calling
file_update_time() to __block_page_mkwrite --- which woudln't get
called in some circumstances.

Since __block_page_mkwrite() only has three callers,
block_page_mkwrite(), ext4_page_mkwrite, and nilfs_page_mkwrite(), the
best way to solve this is to move the responsibility for calling
file_update_time() to its caller.

This problem was found via xfstests #215 with a file system mounted
with -o nodelalloc.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
index 9f6d2e41281d..1fe3968357a9 100644
--- a/fs/buffer.c
+++ b/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2318,12 +2318,6 @@ int __block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	loff_t size;
 	int ret;
 
-	/*
-	 * Update file times before taking page lock. We may end up failing the
-	 * fault so this update may be superfluous but who really cares...
-	 */
-	file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
-
 	lock_page(page);
 	size = i_size_read(inode);
 	if ((page->mapping != inode->i_mapping) ||
@@ -2361,6 +2355,13 @@ int block_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	struct super_block *sb = vma->vm_file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_sb;
 
 	sb_start_pagefault(sb);
+
+	/*
+	 * Update file times before taking page lock. We may end up failing the
+	 * fault so this update may be superfluous but who really cares...
+	 */
+	file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
+
 	ret = __block_page_mkwrite(vma, vmf, get_block);
 	sb_end_pagefault(sb);
 	return block_page_mkwrite_return(ret);