vfs: make fstatat retry on ESTALE errors from getattr call
authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:10:05 +0000 (12:10 -0500)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:50:01 +0000 (18:50 -0500)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/stat.c

index eae4946..d221995 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ int vfs_fstatat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, struct kstat *stat,
 {
        struct path path;
        int error = -EINVAL;
-       int lookup_flags = 0;
+       unsigned int lookup_flags = 0;
 
        if ((flag & ~(AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW | AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT |
                      AT_EMPTY_PATH)) != 0)
@@ -84,13 +84,17 @@ int vfs_fstatat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, struct kstat *stat,
                lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
        if (flag & AT_EMPTY_PATH)
                lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_EMPTY;
-
+retry:
        error = user_path_at(dfd, filename, lookup_flags, &path);
        if (error)
                goto out;
 
        error = vfs_getattr(path.mnt, path.dentry, stat);
        path_put(&path);
+       if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) {
+               lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+               goto retry;
+       }
 out:
        return error;
 }