[patch for 2.6.26 1/4] vfs: utimensat(): ignore tv_sec if tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW

The POSIX.1 draft spec for utimensat() says that if a times[n].tv_nsec
field is UTIME_OMIT or UTIME_NOW, then the value in the corresponding
tv_sec field is ignored.  See the last sentence of this para, from
the spec:

    If the tv_nsec field of a timespec structure has
    the special value UTIME_NOW, the file's relevant
    timestamp shall be set to the greatest value
    supported by the file system that is not greater than
    the current time. If the tv_nsec field has the
    special value UTIME_OMIT, the file's relevant
    timestamp shall not be changed. In either case,
    the tv_sec field shall be ignored.

However the current Linux implementation requires the tv_sec value to be
zero (or the EINVAL error results). This requirement should be removed.

Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c
index 14d3edbb3d7c..d466bc587e6e 100644
--- a/fs/utimes.c
+++ b/fs/utimes.c
@@ -173,14 +173,6 @@ asmlinkage long sys_utimensat(int dfd, char __user *filename, struct timespec __
         if (utimes) {
                 if (copy_from_user(&tstimes, utimes, sizeof(tstimes)))
                         return -EFAULT;
-                if ((tstimes[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT ||
-                     tstimes[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW) &&
-                    tstimes[0].tv_sec != 0)
-                        return -EINVAL;
-                if ((tstimes[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT ||
-                     tstimes[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_NOW) &&
-                    tstimes[1].tv_sec != 0)
-                        return -EINVAL;
 
                 /* Nothing to do, we must not even check the path.  */
                 if (tstimes[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT &&