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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2012-12-11 21:10:16 +0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-12-21 03:50:09 +0400
commit60e66b48ca20819d97ec4851007accc0b013985a (patch)
tree586eb8952207bf554639caab93e6fb91477effe5 /fs
parent49e09e1cc576daa99ea22f3a3c699062c34f8c0f (diff)
downloadlinux-60e66b48ca20819d97ec4851007accc0b013985a.tar.xz
vfs: make getxattr retry once on an ESTALE error
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 74d36e063c8d..24833de649f8 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -486,12 +486,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(getxattr, const char __user *, pathname,
{
struct path path;
ssize_t error;
-
- error = user_path(pathname, &path);
+ unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
+retry:
+ error = user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, pathname, lookup_flags, &path);
if (error)
return error;
error = getxattr(path.dentry, name, value, size);
path_put(&path);
+ if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) {
+ lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+ goto retry;
+ }
return error;
}