[PATCH v4 11/13] ext4: remove ctime/mtime update from ext4_alloc_file_blocks()

From: Zhang Yi

Date: Fri Mar 27 2026 - 06:42:20 EST


From: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>

The ctime and mtime update is already handled by file_modified() in
ext4_fallocate(), the caller of ext4_alloc_file_blocks(). So remove the
redundant calls to inode_set_ctime_current() and inode_set_mtime_to_ts()
in ext4_alloc_file_blocks().

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/extents.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index f4009544f762..7abe47f923c0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -4623,13 +4623,10 @@ static int ext4_alloc_file_blocks(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t len,
*/
retries = 0;
epos = EXT4_LBLK_TO_B(inode, map.m_lblk + ret);
- inode_set_ctime_current(inode);
if (new_size) {
if (epos > new_size)
epos = new_size;
- if (ext4_update_inode_size(inode, epos) & 0x1)
- inode_set_mtime_to_ts(inode,
- inode_get_ctime(inode));
+ ext4_update_inode_size(inode, epos);
if (epos > old_size)
pagecache_isize_extended(inode, old_size, epos);
}
--
2.52.0