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<title>libfs: fix error cast of negative value in simple_attr_write()</title>
<updated>2020-11-24T12:03:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yicong Yang</name>
<email>yangyicong@hisilicon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-22T06:17:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 488dac0c9237647e9b8f788b6a342595bfa40bda ]

The attr-&gt;set() receive a value of u64, but simple_strtoll() is used for
doing the conversion.  It will lead to the error cast if user inputs a
negative value.

Use kstrtoull() instead of simple_strtoll() to convert a string got from
the user to an unsigned value.  The former will return '-EINVAL' if it
gets a negetive value, but the latter can't handle the situation
correctly.  Make 'val' unsigned long long as what kstrtoull() takes,
this will eliminate the compile warning on no 64-bit architectures.

Fixes: f7b88631a897 ("fs/libfs.c: fix simple_attr_write() on 32bit machines")
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang &lt;yangyicong@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1605341356-11872-1-git-send-email-yangyicong@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 488dac0c9237647e9b8f788b6a342595bfa40bda ]

The attr-&gt;set() receive a value of u64, but simple_strtoll() is used for
doing the conversion.  It will lead to the error cast if user inputs a
negative value.

Use kstrtoull() instead of simple_strtoll() to convert a string got from
the user to an unsigned value.  The former will return '-EINVAL' if it
gets a negetive value, but the latter can't handle the situation
correctly.  Make 'val' unsigned long long as what kstrtoull() takes,
this will eliminate the compile warning on no 64-bit architectures.

Fixes: f7b88631a897 ("fs/libfs.c: fix simple_attr_write() on 32bit machines")
Signed-off-by: Yicong Yang &lt;yangyicong@hisilicon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1605341356-11872-1-git-send-email-yangyicong@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libfs: fix infoleak in simple_attr_read()</title>
<updated>2020-04-02T15:20:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-08T02:38:49+00:00</published>
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commit a65cab7d7f05c2061a3e2490257d3086ff3202c6 upstream.

Reading from a debugfs file at a nonzero position, without first reading
at position 0, leaks uninitialized memory to userspace.

It's a bit tricky to do this, since lseek() and pread() aren't allowed
on these files, and write() doesn't update the position on them.  But
writing to them with splice() *does* update the position:

	#define _GNU_SOURCE 1
	#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	int main()
	{
		int pipes[2], fd, n, i;
		char buf[32];

		pipe(pipes);
		write(pipes[1], "0", 1);
		fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/fault_around_bytes", O_RDWR);
		splice(pipes[0], NULL, fd, NULL, 1, 0);
		n = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
		for (i = 0; i &lt; n; i++)
			printf("%02x", buf[i]);
		printf("\n");
	}

Output:
	5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a30

Fix the infoleak by making simple_attr_read() always fill
simple_attr::get_buf if it hasn't been filled yet.

Reported-by: syzbot+fcab69d1ada3e8d6f06b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Fixes: acaefc25d21f ("[PATCH] libfs: add simple attribute files")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308023849.988264-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a65cab7d7f05c2061a3e2490257d3086ff3202c6 upstream.

Reading from a debugfs file at a nonzero position, without first reading
at position 0, leaks uninitialized memory to userspace.

It's a bit tricky to do this, since lseek() and pread() aren't allowed
on these files, and write() doesn't update the position on them.  But
writing to them with splice() *does* update the position:

	#define _GNU_SOURCE 1
	#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	int main()
	{
		int pipes[2], fd, n, i;
		char buf[32];

		pipe(pipes);
		write(pipes[1], "0", 1);
		fd = open("/sys/kernel/debug/fault_around_bytes", O_RDWR);
		splice(pipes[0], NULL, fd, NULL, 1, 0);
		n = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
		for (i = 0; i &lt; n; i++)
			printf("%02x", buf[i]);
		printf("\n");
	}

Output:
	5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a5a30

Fix the infoleak by making simple_attr_read() always fill
simple_attr::get_buf if it hasn't been filled yet.

Reported-by: syzbot+fcab69d1ada3e8d6f06b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Fixes: acaefc25d21f ("[PATCH] libfs: add simple attribute files")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200308023849.988264-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Fix the locking in dcache_readdir() and friends</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T20:42:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-15T16:12:39+00:00</published>
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commit d4f4de5e5ef8efde85febb6876cd3c8ab1631999 upstream.

There are two problems in dcache_readdir() - one is that lockless traversal
of the list needs non-trivial cooperation of d_alloc() (at least a switch
to list_add_rcu(), and probably more than just that) and another is that
it assumes that no removal will happen without the directory locked exclusive.
Said assumption had always been there, never had been stated explicitly and
is violated by several places in the kernel (devpts and selinuxfs).

        * replacement of next_positive() with different calling conventions:
it returns struct list_head * instead of struct dentry *; the latter is
passed in and out by reference, grabbing the result and dropping the original
value.
        * scan is under -&gt;d_lock.  If we run out of timeslice, cursor is moved
after the last position we'd reached and we reschedule; then the scan continues
from that place.  To avoid livelocks between multiple lseek() (with cursors
getting moved past each other, never reaching the real entries) we always
skip the cursors, need_resched() or not.
        * returned list_head * is either -&gt;d_child of dentry we'd found or
-&gt;d_subdirs of parent (if we got to the end of the list).
        * dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() switched to new helper.
dcache_readdir() always holds a reference to dentry passed to dir_emit() now.
Cursor is moved to just before the entry where dir_emit() has failed or into
the very end of the list, if we'd run out.
        * move_cursor() eliminated - it had sucky calling conventions and
after fixing that it became simply list_move() (in lseek and scan_positives)
or list_move_tail() (in readdir).

        All operations with the list are under -&gt;d_lock now, and we do not
depend upon having all file removals done with parent locked exclusive
anymore.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: "zhengbin (A)" &lt;zhengbin13@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d4f4de5e5ef8efde85febb6876cd3c8ab1631999 upstream.

There are two problems in dcache_readdir() - one is that lockless traversal
of the list needs non-trivial cooperation of d_alloc() (at least a switch
to list_add_rcu(), and probably more than just that) and another is that
it assumes that no removal will happen without the directory locked exclusive.
Said assumption had always been there, never had been stated explicitly and
is violated by several places in the kernel (devpts and selinuxfs).

        * replacement of next_positive() with different calling conventions:
it returns struct list_head * instead of struct dentry *; the latter is
passed in and out by reference, grabbing the result and dropping the original
value.
        * scan is under -&gt;d_lock.  If we run out of timeslice, cursor is moved
after the last position we'd reached and we reschedule; then the scan continues
from that place.  To avoid livelocks between multiple lseek() (with cursors
getting moved past each other, never reaching the real entries) we always
skip the cursors, need_resched() or not.
        * returned list_head * is either -&gt;d_child of dentry we'd found or
-&gt;d_subdirs of parent (if we got to the end of the list).
        * dcache_readdir() and dcache_dir_lseek() switched to new helper.
dcache_readdir() always holds a reference to dentry passed to dir_emit() now.
Cursor is moved to just before the entry where dir_emit() has failed or into
the very end of the list, if we'd run out.
        * move_cursor() eliminated - it had sucky calling conventions and
after fixing that it became simply list_move() (in lseek and scan_positives)
or list_move_tail() (in readdir).

        All operations with the list are under -&gt;d_lock now, and we do not
depend upon having all file removals done with parent locked exclusive
anymore.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: "zhengbin (A)" &lt;zhengbin13@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libfs: Modify mount_pseudo_xattr to be clear it is not a userspace mount</title>
<updated>2017-12-09T21:01:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-04T04:37:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 75422726b0f717d67db3283c2eb5bc14fa2619c5 ]

Add MS_KERNMOUNT to the flags that are passed.
Use sget_userns and force &amp;init_user_ns instead of calling sget so that
even if called from a weird context the internal filesystem will be
considered to be in the intial user namespace.

Luis Ressel reported that the the failure to pass MS_KERNMOUNT into
mount_pseudo broke his in development graphics driver that uses the
generic drm infrastructure.  I am not certain the deriver was bug
free in it's usage of that infrastructure but since
mount_pseudo_xattr can never be triggered by userspace it is clearer
and less error prone, and less problematic for the code to be explicit.

Reported-by: Luis Ressel &lt;aranea@aixah.de&gt;
Tested-by: Luis Ressel &lt;aranea@aixah.de&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 75422726b0f717d67db3283c2eb5bc14fa2619c5 ]

Add MS_KERNMOUNT to the flags that are passed.
Use sget_userns and force &amp;init_user_ns instead of calling sget so that
even if called from a weird context the internal filesystem will be
considered to be in the intial user namespace.

Luis Ressel reported that the the failure to pass MS_KERNMOUNT into
mount_pseudo broke his in development graphics driver that uses the
generic drm infrastructure.  I am not certain the deriver was bug
free in it's usage of that infrastructure but since
mount_pseudo_xattr can never be triggered by userspace it is clearer
and less error prone, and less problematic for the code to be explicit.

Reported-by: Luis Ressel &lt;aranea@aixah.de&gt;
Tested-by: Luis Ressel &lt;aranea@aixah.de&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-10-11T03:16:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T03:16:43+00:00</published>
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Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "&gt;rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time()
  fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps
  fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps
  fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode()
  vfs: Add current_time() api
  vfs: add note about i_op-&gt;rename changes to porting
  fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"
  vfs: remove unused i_op-&gt;rename
  fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2
  libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename()
  fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems
  ncpfs: fix unused variable warning
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Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "&gt;rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time()
  fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps
  fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps
  fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode()
  vfs: Add current_time() api
  vfs: add note about i_op-&gt;rename changes to porting
  fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"
  vfs: remove unused i_op-&gt;rename
  fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2
  libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename()
  fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems
  ncpfs: fix unused variable warning
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge remote-tracking branch 'ovl/rename2' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2016-10-11T03:02:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T03:02:51+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge branch 'work.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-10-11T00:11:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-11T00:11:50+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs xattr updates from Al Viro:
 "xattr stuff from Andreas

  This completes the switch to xattr_handler -&gt;get()/-&gt;set() from
  -&gt;getxattr/-&gt;setxattr/-&gt;removexattr"

* 'work.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  vfs: Remove {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations
  xattr: Stop calling {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations
  vfs: Check for the IOP_XATTR flag in listxattr
  xattr: Add __vfs_{get,set,remove}xattr helpers
  libfs: Use IOP_XATTR flag for empty directory handling
  vfs: Use IOP_XATTR flag for bad-inode handling
  vfs: Add IOP_XATTR inode operations flag
  vfs: Move xattr_resolve_name to the front of fs/xattr.c
  ecryptfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
  sockfs: Get rid of getxattr iop
  sockfs: getxattr: Fail with -EOPNOTSUPP for invalid attribute names
  kernfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
  hfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
  jffs2: Remove jffs2_{get,set,remove}xattr macros
  xattr: Remove unnecessary NULL attribute name check
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Pull vfs xattr updates from Al Viro:
 "xattr stuff from Andreas

  This completes the switch to xattr_handler -&gt;get()/-&gt;set() from
  -&gt;getxattr/-&gt;setxattr/-&gt;removexattr"

* 'work.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  vfs: Remove {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations
  xattr: Stop calling {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations
  vfs: Check for the IOP_XATTR flag in listxattr
  xattr: Add __vfs_{get,set,remove}xattr helpers
  libfs: Use IOP_XATTR flag for empty directory handling
  vfs: Use IOP_XATTR flag for bad-inode handling
  vfs: Add IOP_XATTR inode operations flag
  vfs: Move xattr_resolve_name to the front of fs/xattr.c
  ecryptfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
  sockfs: Get rid of getxattr iop
  sockfs: getxattr: Fail with -EOPNOTSUPP for invalid attribute names
  kernfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
  hfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
  jffs2: Remove jffs2_{get,set,remove}xattr macros
  xattr: Remove unnecessary NULL attribute name check
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libfs: Use IOP_XATTR flag for empty directory handling</title>
<updated>2016-10-08T00:10:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-29T15:48:41+00:00</published>
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Instead of special xattr inode operations, use the IOP_XATTR inode
operations flag for the special libfs empty directories.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Instead of special xattr inode operations, use the IOP_XATTR inode
operations flag for the special libfs empty directories.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sockfs: Get rid of getxattr iop</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T02:17:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Gruenbacher</name>
<email>agruenba@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-29T15:48:35+00:00</published>
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If we allow pseudo-filesystems created with mount_pseudo to have xattr
handlers, we can replace sockfs_getxattr with a sockfs_xattr_get handler
to use the xattr handler name parsing.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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If we allow pseudo-filesystems created with mount_pseudo to have xattr
handlers, we can replace sockfs_getxattr with a sockfs_xattr_get handler
to use the xattr handler name parsing.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps</title>
<updated>2016-09-28T01:06:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-14T14:48:04+00:00</published>
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CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it
doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps.
Use current_time() instead.

CURRENT_TIME is also not y2038 safe.

This is also in preparation for the patch that transitions
vfs timestamps to use 64 bit time and hence make them
y2038 safe. As part of the effort current_time() will be
extended to do range checks. Hence, it is necessary for all
file system timestamps to use current_time(). Also,
current_time() will be transitioned along with vfs to be
y2038 safe.

Note that whenever a single call to current_time() is used
to change timestamps in different inodes, it is because they
share the same time granularity.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it
doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps.
Use current_time() instead.

CURRENT_TIME is also not y2038 safe.

This is also in preparation for the patch that transitions
vfs timestamps to use 64 bit time and hence make them
y2038 safe. As part of the effort current_time() will be
extended to do range checks. Hence, it is necessary for all
file system timestamps to use current_time(). Also,
current_time() will be transitioned along with vfs to be
y2038 safe.

Note that whenever a single call to current_time() is used
to change timestamps in different inodes, it is because they
share the same time granularity.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;balbi@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse &lt;swhiteho@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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