fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time

Btrfs has to make sure we have space to allocate new blocks in order to modify
the inode, so updating time can fail.  We've gotten around this by having our
own file_update_time but this is kind of a pain, and Christoph has indicated he
would like to make xfs do something different with atime updates.  So introduce
->update_time, where we will deal with i_version an a/m/c time updates and
indicate which changes need to be made.  The normal version just does what it
has always done, updates the time and marks the inode dirty, and then
filesystems can choose to do something different.

I've gone through all of the users of file_update_time and made them check for
errors with the exception of the fault code since it's complicated and I wasn't
quite sure what to do there, also Jan is going to be pushing the file time
updates into page_mkwrite for those who have it so that should satisfy btrfs and
make it not a big deal to check the file_update_time() return code in the
generic fault path. Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>

7 files changed, 64 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fuse/file.c b/fs/fuse/file.c
index 504e61b..9562109 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/file.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/file.c
@@ -962,7 +962,9 @@ static ssize_t fuse_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iov,
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
 
-	file_update_time(file);
+	err = file_update_time(file);
+	if (err)
+		goto out;
 
 	if (file->f_flags & O_DIRECT) {
 		written = generic_file_direct_write(iocb, iov, &nr_segs,
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index a79555e..f0335fc 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1487,6 +1487,27 @@ static int relatime_need_update(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct inode *inode,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * This does the actual work of updating an inodes time or version.  Must have
+ * had called mnt_want_write() before calling this.
+ */
+static int update_time(struct inode *inode, struct timespec *time, int flags)
+{
+	if (inode->i_op->update_time)
+		return inode->i_op->update_time(inode, time, flags);
+
+	if (flags & S_ATIME)
+		inode->i_atime = *time;
+	if (flags & S_VERSION)
+		inode_inc_iversion(inode);
+	if (flags & S_CTIME)
+		inode->i_ctime = *time;
+	if (flags & S_MTIME)
+		inode->i_mtime = *time;
+	mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /**
  *	touch_atime	-	update the access time
  *	@path: the &struct path to update
@@ -1524,8 +1545,14 @@ void touch_atime(struct path *path)
 	if (mnt_want_write(mnt))
 		return;
 
-	inode->i_atime = now;
-	mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+	/*
+	 * File systems can error out when updating inodes if they need to
+	 * allocate new space to modify an inode (such is the case for
+	 * Btrfs), but since we touch atime while walking down the path we
+	 * really don't care if we failed to update the atime of the file,
+	 * so just ignore the return value.
+	 */
+	update_time(inode, &now, S_ATIME);
 	mnt_drop_write(mnt);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_atime);
@@ -1604,18 +1631,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_remove_suid);
  *	usage in the file write path of filesystems, and filesystems may
  *	choose to explicitly ignore update via this function with the
  *	S_NOCMTIME inode flag, e.g. for network filesystem where these
- *	timestamps are handled by the server.
+ *	timestamps are handled by the server.  This can return an error for
+ *	file systems who need to allocate space in order to update an inode.
  */
 
-void file_update_time(struct file *file)
+int file_update_time(struct file *file)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = file->f_path.dentry->d_inode;
 	struct timespec now;
-	enum { S_MTIME = 1, S_CTIME = 2, S_VERSION = 4 } sync_it = 0;
+	int sync_it = 0;
+	int ret;
 
 	/* First try to exhaust all avenues to not sync */
 	if (IS_NOCMTIME(inode))
-		return;
+		return 0;
 
 	now = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
 	if (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_mtime, &now))
@@ -1628,21 +1657,16 @@ void file_update_time(struct file *file)
 		sync_it |= S_VERSION;
 
 	if (!sync_it)
-		return;
+		return 0;
 
 	/* Finally allowed to write? Takes lock. */
 	if (mnt_want_write_file(file))
-		return;
+		return 0;
 
-	/* Only change inode inside the lock region */
-	if (sync_it & S_VERSION)
-		inode_inc_iversion(inode);
-	if (sync_it & S_CTIME)
-		inode->i_ctime = now;
-	if (sync_it & S_MTIME)
-		inode->i_mtime = now;
-	mark_inode_dirty_sync(inode);
+	ret = update_time(inode, &now, sync_it);
 	mnt_drop_write_file(file);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_update_time);
 
diff --git a/fs/ncpfs/file.c b/fs/ncpfs/file.c
index 3ff5fcc..122e260 100644
--- a/fs/ncpfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ncpfs/file.c
@@ -221,6 +221,10 @@ ncp_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *
 
 	already_written = 0;
 
+	errno = file_update_time(file);
+	if (errno)
+		goto outrel;
+
 	bouncebuffer = vmalloc(bufsize);
 	if (!bouncebuffer) {
 		errno = -EIO;	/* -ENOMEM */
@@ -252,8 +256,6 @@ ncp_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *
 	}
 	vfree(bouncebuffer);
 
-	file_update_time(file);
-
 	*ppos = pos;
 
 	if (pos > i_size_read(inode)) {
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/file.c b/fs/ntfs/file.c
index 8639169..7389d2d 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/file.c
@@ -2096,7 +2096,9 @@ static ssize_t ntfs_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kiocb *iocb,
 	err = file_remove_suid(file);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
-	file_update_time(file);
+	err = file_update_time(file);
+	if (err)
+		goto out;
 	written = ntfs_file_buffered_write(iocb, iov, nr_segs, pos, ppos,
 			count);
 out:
diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index 95ebb56..49c1065 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -654,8 +654,11 @@ out:
 		wake_up_interruptible_sync_poll(&pipe->wait, POLLIN | POLLRDNORM);
 		kill_fasync(&pipe->fasync_readers, SIGIO, POLL_IN);
 	}
-	if (ret > 0)
-		file_update_time(filp);
+	if (ret > 0) {
+		int err = file_update_time(filp);
+		if (err)
+			ret = err;
+	}
 	return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index f847684..47c4c1a 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1003,8 +1003,10 @@ generic_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
 		mutex_lock_nested(&inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
 		ret = file_remove_suid(out);
 		if (!ret) {
-			file_update_time(out);
-			ret = splice_from_pipe_feed(pipe, &sd, pipe_to_file);
+			ret = file_update_time(out);
+			if (!ret)
+				ret = splice_from_pipe_feed(pipe, &sd,
+							    pipe_to_file);
 		}
 		mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	} while (ret > 0);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
index 8d214b8..9f7ec15 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_file.c
@@ -586,8 +586,11 @@ restart:
 	 * lock above.  Eventually we should look into a way to avoid
 	 * the pointless lock roundtrip.
 	 */
-	if (likely(!(file->f_mode & FMODE_NOCMTIME)))
-		file_update_time(file);
+	if (likely(!(file->f_mode & FMODE_NOCMTIME))) {
+		error = file_update_time(file);
+		if (error)
+			return error;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * If we're writing the file then make sure to clear the setuid and