Commit 2096721f authored May 28, 2020 by Tony Luck Committed by Ard Biesheuvel Jun 15, 2020

efivarfs: Update inode modification time for successful writes



Some applications want to be able to see when EFI variables
have been updated.

Update the modification time for successful writes.

Reported-by: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528194905.690-2-tony.luck@intel.com


Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

parent 4ddf4739

fs/efivarfs/file.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struct file *file,
		} else {
		inode_lock(inode);
		i_size_write(inode, datasize + sizeof(attributes));
		inode->i_mtime = current_time(inode);
		inode_unlock(inode);
		}

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