From 7955119e02d9fdf78a39fba8073f19ca6152613e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:10:06 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] vfs: fix readlinkat to retry on ESTALE
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
fs/stat.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index d221995278803..14f45459c83d6 100644
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -300,11 +300,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(readlinkat, int, dfd, const char __user *, pathname,
struct path path;
int error;
int empty = 0;
+ unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_EMPTY;
if (bufsiz <= 0)
return -EINVAL;
- error = user_path_at_empty(dfd, pathname, LOOKUP_EMPTY, &path, &empty);
+retry:
+ error = user_path_at_empty(dfd, pathname, lookup_flags, &path, &empty);
if (!error) {
struct inode *inode = path.dentry->d_inode;
@@ -318,6 +320,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(readlinkat, int, dfd, const char __user *, pathname,
}
}
path_put(&path);
+ if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) {
+ lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+ goto retry;
+ }
}
return error;
}
--
2.39.5