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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2012-12-11 12:10:10 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-12-20 18:50:05 -0500
commitc6a9428401c00a27d3c17264934d14e284570c97 (patch)
tree84d5e256e78615794a694cf5b6af80a92e8d01f9 /fs
parent5d18f8133cad85ccbb7fa6fd351d75025da32504 (diff)
downloadlinux-c6a9428401c00a27d3c17264934d14e284570c97.tar.gz
vfs: fix renameat to retry on ESTALE errors
...as always, rename is the messiest of the bunch. We have to track
whether to retry or not via a separate flag since the error handling
is already quite complex.

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/namei.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 8a262c2efff8..43a97ee1d4c8 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3840,15 +3840,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(renameat, int, olddfd, const char __user *, oldname,
 	struct nameidata oldnd, newnd;
 	struct filename *from;
 	struct filename *to;
+	unsigned int lookup_flags = 0;
+	bool should_retry = false;
 	int error;
-
-	from = user_path_parent(olddfd, oldname, &oldnd, 0);
+retry:
+	from = user_path_parent(olddfd, oldname, &oldnd, lookup_flags);
 	if (IS_ERR(from)) {
 		error = PTR_ERR(from);
 		goto exit;
 	}
 
-	to = user_path_parent(newdfd, newname, &newnd, 0);
+	to = user_path_parent(newdfd, newname, &newnd, lookup_flags);
 	if (IS_ERR(to)) {
 		error = PTR_ERR(to);
 		goto exit1;
@@ -3920,11 +3922,18 @@ exit3:
 	unlock_rename(new_dir, old_dir);
 	mnt_drop_write(oldnd.path.mnt);
 exit2:
+	if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags))
+		should_retry = true;
 	path_put(&newnd.path);
 	putname(to);
 exit1:
 	path_put(&oldnd.path);
 	putname(from);
+	if (should_retry) {
+		should_retry = false;
+		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+		goto retry;
+	}
 exit:
 	return error;
 }