Commit cba465b4 authored Sep 04, 2019 by Deepa Dinamani Committed by Arnd Bergmann Sep 04, 2019

ext4: Reduce ext4 timestamp warnings

When ext4 file systems were created intentionally with 128 byte inodes,
the rate-limited warning of eventual possible timestamp overflow are
still emitted rather frequently.  Remove the warning for now.

Discussion for whether any warning is needed,
and where it should be emitted, can be found at
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1567523922.5576.57.camel@lca.pw/

.
I can post a separate follow-up patch after the conclusion.

Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

parent 9d14545b

fs/ext4/ext4.h

+1 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -833,10 +833,8 @@ do { \
		(raw_inode)->xtime ## _extra = \
		ext4_encode_extra_time(&(inode)->xtime); \
		} \
		else {\
		else \
		(raw_inode)->xtime = cpu_to_le32(clamp_t(int32_t, (inode)->xtime.tv_sec, S32_MIN, S32_MAX)); \
		ext4_warning_inode(inode, "inode does not support timestamps beyond 2038"); \
		} \
		} while (0)

		#define EXT4_EINODE_SET_XTIME(xtime, einode, raw_inode) \

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