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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2012-12-11 12:10:05 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-12-20 18:50:01 -0500
commit836fb7e7b978e5f3b8b52e40838ddc50264723f0 (patch)
tree777bbb681013843c3cbad6b908bdc6c4aee3c09b /fs/stat.c
parentb9d6ba94b875192ef5e2dab92d72beea33b83c3d (diff)
downloadlinux-836fb7e7b978e5f3b8b52e40838ddc50264723f0.tar.gz
vfs: make fstatat retry on ESTALE errors from getattr call
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/stat.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/stat.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index eae494630a36..d22199527880 100644
--- 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;
 }