fs: record I_DIRTY_TIME even if inode already has I_DIRTY_INODE

Currently the I_DIRTY_TIME will never get set if the inode already has
I_DIRTY_INODE with assumption that it supersedes I_DIRTY_TIME.  That's
true, however ext4 will only update the on-disk inode in
->dirty_inode(), not on actual writeback. As a result if the inode
already has I_DIRTY_INODE state by the time we get to
__mark_inode_dirty() only with I_DIRTY_TIME, the time was already filled
into on-disk inode and will not get updated until the next I_DIRTY_INODE
update, which might never come if we crash or get a power failure.

The problem can be reproduced on ext4 by running xfstest generic/622
with -o iversion mount option.

Fix it by allowing I_DIRTY_TIME to be set even if the inode already has
I_DIRTY_INODE. Also make sure that the case is properly handled in
writeback_single_inode() as well. Additionally changes in
xfs_fs_dirty_inode() was made to accommodate for I_DIRTY_TIME in flag.

Thanks Jan Kara for suggestions on how to make this work properly.

Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220825100657.44217-1-lczerner@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst

@@ -274,6 +274,9 @@ or bottom half).
 	This is specifically for the inode itself being marked dirty,
 	not its data.  If the update needs to be persisted by fdatasync(),
 	then I_DIRTY_DATASYNC will be set in the flags argument.
+	I_DIRTY_TIME will be set in the flags in case lazytime is enabled
+	and struct inode has times updated since the last ->dirty_inode
+	call.
 
 ``write_inode``
 	this method is called when the VFS needs to write an inode to

fs/fs-writeback.c

@@ -1718,9 +1718,14 @@ static int writeback_single_inode(struct inode *inode,
 	 */
 	if (!(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_ALL))
 		inode_cgwb_move_to_attached(inode, wb);
-	else if (!(inode->i_state & I_SYNC_QUEUED) &&
-		 (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY))
-		redirty_tail_locked(inode, wb);
+	else if (!(inode->i_state & I_SYNC_QUEUED)) {
+		if ((inode->i_state & I_DIRTY))
+			redirty_tail_locked(inode, wb);
+		else if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) {
+			inode->dirtied_when = jiffies;
+			inode_io_list_move_locked(inode, wb, &wb->b_dirty_time);
+		}
+	}
 
 	spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock);
 	inode_sync_complete(inode);
@@ -2369,6 +2374,20 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags)
 	trace_writeback_mark_inode_dirty(inode, flags);
 
 	if (flags & I_DIRTY_INODE) {
+		/*
+		 * Inode timestamp update will piggback on this dirtying.
+		 * We tell ->dirty_inode callback that timestamps need to
+		 * be updated by setting I_DIRTY_TIME in flags.
+		 */
+		if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) {
+			spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+			if (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME) {
+				inode->i_state &= ~I_DIRTY_TIME;
+				flags |= I_DIRTY_TIME;
+			}
+			spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
+		}
+
 		/*
 		 * Notify the filesystem about the inode being dirtied, so that
 		 * (if needed) it can update on-disk fields and journal the
@@ -2378,7 +2397,8 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags)
 		 */
 		trace_writeback_dirty_inode_start(inode, flags);
 		if (sb->s_op->dirty_inode)
-			sb->s_op->dirty_inode(inode, flags & I_DIRTY_INODE);
+			sb->s_op->dirty_inode(inode,
+				flags & (I_DIRTY_INODE | I_DIRTY_TIME));
 		trace_writeback_dirty_inode(inode, flags);
 
 		/* I_DIRTY_INODE supersedes I_DIRTY_TIME. */
@@ -2399,21 +2419,15 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags)
 	 */
 	smp_mb();
 
-	if (((inode->i_state & flags) == flags) ||
-	    (dirtytime && (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_INODE)))
+	if ((inode->i_state & flags) == flags)
 		return;
 
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-	if (dirtytime && (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_INODE))
-		goto out_unlock_inode;
 	if ((inode->i_state & flags) != flags) {
 		const int was_dirty = inode->i_state & I_DIRTY;
 
 		inode_attach_wb(inode, NULL);
 
-		/* I_DIRTY_INODE supersedes I_DIRTY_TIME. */
-		if (flags & I_DIRTY_INODE)
-			inode->i_state &= ~I_DIRTY_TIME;
 		inode->i_state |= flags;
 
 		/*
@@ -2486,7 +2500,6 @@ void __mark_inode_dirty(struct inode *inode, int flags)
 out_unlock:
 	if (wb)
 		spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock);
-out_unlock_inode:
 	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__mark_inode_dirty);

fs/xfs/xfs_super.c

@@ -653,15 +653,21 @@ xfs_fs_destroy_inode(
 static void
 xfs_fs_dirty_inode(
 	struct inode			*inode,
-	int				flag)
+	int				flags)
 {
 	struct xfs_inode		*ip = XFS_I(inode);
 	struct xfs_mount		*mp = ip->i_mount;
 	struct xfs_trans		*tp;
 
 	if (!(inode->i_sb->s_flags & SB_LAZYTIME))
 		return;
-	if (flag != I_DIRTY_SYNC || !(inode->i_state & I_DIRTY_TIME))
+
+	/*
+	 * Only do the timestamp update if the inode is dirty (I_DIRTY_SYNC)
+	 * and has dirty timestamp (I_DIRTY_TIME). I_DIRTY_TIME can be passed
+	 * in flags possibly together with I_DIRTY_SYNC.
+	 */
+	if ((flags & ~I_DIRTY_TIME) != I_DIRTY_SYNC || !(flags & I_DIRTY_TIME))
 		return;
 
 	if (xfs_trans_alloc(mp, &M_RES(mp)->tr_fsyncts, 0, 0, 0, &tp))

include/linux/fs.h

@@ -2371,13 +2371,14 @@ static inline void kiocb_clone(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct kiocb *kiocb_src,
  *			don't have to write inode on fdatasync() when only
  *			e.g. the timestamps have changed.
  * I_DIRTY_PAGES	Inode has dirty pages.  Inode itself may be clean.
- * I_DIRTY_TIME		The inode itself only has dirty timestamps, and the
+ * I_DIRTY_TIME		The inode itself has dirty timestamps, and the
  *			lazytime mount option is enabled.  We keep track of this
  *			separately from I_DIRTY_SYNC in order to implement
  *			lazytime.  This gets cleared if I_DIRTY_INODE
- *			(I_DIRTY_SYNC and/or I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) gets set.  I.e.
- *			either I_DIRTY_TIME *or* I_DIRTY_INODE can be set in
- *			i_state, but not both.  I_DIRTY_PAGES may still be set.
+ *			(I_DIRTY_SYNC and/or I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) gets set. But
+ *			I_DIRTY_TIME can still be set if I_DIRTY_SYNC is already
+ *			in place because writeback might already be in progress
+ *			and we don't want to lose the time update
  * I_NEW		Serves as both a mutex and completion notification.
  *			New inodes set I_NEW.  If two processes both create
  *			the same inode, one of them will release its inode and