From: Jeff Layton Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:10:08 +0000 (-0500) Subject: vfs: fix symlinkat to retry on ESTALE errors X-Git-Tag: upstream/snapshot3+hdmi~5970^2~21 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f46d3567b223e41e1f2faeb82d3b74a6d84fc508;p=platform%2Fadaptation%2Frenesas_rcar%2Frenesas_kernel.git vfs: fix symlinkat to retry on ESTALE errors Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 1beebc1..b06a111 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3521,12 +3521,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(symlinkat, const char __user *, oldname, struct filename *from; struct dentry *dentry; struct path path; + unsigned int lookup_flags = 0; from = getname(oldname); if (IS_ERR(from)) return PTR_ERR(from); - - dentry = user_path_create(newdfd, newname, &path, 0); +retry: + dentry = user_path_create(newdfd, newname, &path, lookup_flags); error = PTR_ERR(dentry); if (IS_ERR(dentry)) goto out_putname; @@ -3535,6 +3536,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(symlinkat, const char __user *, oldname, if (!error) error = vfs_symlink(path.dentry->d_inode, dentry, from->name); done_path_create(&path, dentry); + if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) { + lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL; + goto retry; + } out_putname: putname(from); return error;