From: Jeff Layton Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:10:06 +0000 (-0500) Subject: vfs: fix readlinkat to retry on ESTALE X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~1680^2~25 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7955119e02d9fdf78a39fba8073f19ca6152613e;p=kernel%2Fkernel-generic.git vfs: fix readlinkat to retry on ESTALE Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c index d221995..14f4545 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; }