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Wong" , "Sean Smith" , "Andrey Albershteyn" , "Pedro Falcato" , =?utf-8?q?Pali_Roh=C3=A1r?= , , , , , , Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/5] vfs: add provenance time (ptime) From: "koraynilay" To: "Amir Goldstein" , "koraynilay" X-Mailer: aerc 0.22.0-0-gc2f86b7abde3 References: <20261101015551.786044-1-koray.fra@gmail.com> <20261101015551.786044-2-koray.fra@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: --e80d9f52f04d877396f5736b7426fc0b9ce68638903c33e71797700113b3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Mon Nov 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM CET, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2026 at 2:57=E2=80=AFAM koraynilay w= rote: >> >> Add provenance time (ptime), indicating the time when a file or >> directory was created. This is user-settable via file_setattr() and >> retrievable via statx(2) (using STATX_PTIME) or file_getattr(). >> >> The semantics of when to preserve this new timestamp are the same as >> mtime, the idea being that there is a correspondence like this: >> >> ctime <-> btime >> mtime <-> ptime >> >> so every operation (copying, moving, ...) that currently preserves mtime >> should also preserve ptime. >> >> Furthermore, in order to avoid the legacy FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR accepting >> FS_XFLAG_PTIME, add an FS_FILE_ATTR_XFLAGS_MASK mask to support new >> xflags, and use it in fileattr_to_file_attr()/file_attr_to_fileattr() to >> allow ptime to be used with the file_setattr()/file_getattr() syscalls. >> >> [ This is a re-implementation of the initial patch[1] by Sean Smith >> , following the advice[2] from Darrick J. >> Wong of using file_setattr() instead of updating >> utimensat() ] >> >> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/20260405195007.1306-2-DefendTheDisabled@gma= il.com >> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/20260407014129.GC6192@frogsfrogsfrogs >> >> Assisted-by: Gemini:3.8-flash-high antigravity-cli-1.4.7 >> Signed-off-by: koraynilay >> --- >> fs/file_attr.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- >> fs/stat.c | 2 ++ >> include/linux/fileattr.h | 5 +++++ >> include/linux/stat.h | 1 + >> include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 8 +++++++- >> include/uapi/linux/stat.h | 7 ++++++- >> 6 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/fs/file_attr.c b/fs/file_attr.c >> index 833e03810b24..c0645cb22bf3 100644 >> --- a/fs/file_attr.c >> +++ b/fs/file_attr.c >> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_fileattr_get); >> static void fileattr_to_file_attr(const struct file_kattr *fa, >> struct file_attr *fattr) >> { >> - __u32 mask =3D FS_XFLAGS_MASK; >> + __u32 mask =3D FS_FILE_ATTR_XFLAGS_MASK; >> >> memset(fattr, 0, sizeof(struct file_attr)); >> fattr->fa_xflags =3D fa->fsx_xflags & mask; >> @@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ static void fileattr_to_file_attr(const struct file_= kattr *fa, >> fattr->fa_nextents =3D fa->fsx_nextents; >> fattr->fa_projid =3D fa->fsx_projid; >> fattr->fa_cowextsize =3D fa->fsx_cowextsize; >> + fattr->fa_ptime_sec =3D fa->fsx_ptime.tv_sec; >> + fattr->fa_ptime_nsec =3D fa->fsx_ptime.tv_nsec; >> } >> >> /** >> @@ -141,15 +143,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_fsxattr_to_user); >> static int file_attr_to_fileattr(const struct file_attr *fattr, >> struct file_kattr *fa) >> { >> - __u64 mask =3D FS_XFLAGS_MASK; >> + __u64 mask =3D FS_FILE_ATTR_XFLAGS_MASK; > > That is not the correct way to extend this API. > This fixed mask was added as a placeholder for > "We intend to add support for more xflags to selective filesystems": > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20250329143312.1350603-2-amir73il@g= mail.com/ > > Please see this POC patch for filesystems to publish their supported > xflags mask: > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20250329143312.1350603-3-amir73il@g= mail.com/ Thanks, I did not think of adding a dynamic mask like that, I will look into it and implement it for v4. > This will allow callers of file_getattr() to know if the filesystem > supports ptime > without trying to set it and failing. So after adding fsx_xflags_mask to file_kattr, every filesystem would populate fsx_xflags_mask with all the returned (=3D=3D supported) FS_XFLAG_= * in their own specific .fileattr_get, correct? Best, koraynilay > Thanks, > Amir. --e80d9f52f04d877396f5736b7426fc0b9ce68638903c33e71797700113b3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEABYKAB0WIQRJ2XvJtXGwULYEerQ0bnTtJTDoOAUCaunB4QAKCRA0bnTtJTDo OGlqAP9FN1O36Vljpv9qu+GHoMq4dpgT5l0jYNkHeq3xwaeLZQEAp8imIPg1c77f Nx6+7PN4i6jMGvOBbnpA+XfhiQmdEgs= =mk5d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --e80d9f52f04d877396f5736b7426fc0b9ce68638903c33e71797700113b3--