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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2012-12-11 12:10:16 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-12-20 18:50:09 -0500
commit3a3e159dbfe405517584b09bbcefd72115d93342 (patch)
treee3f4873b966e90dd0ab28482f17958f7c53f9246 /fs
parentvfs: make getxattr retry once on an ESTALE error (diff)
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vfs: make lgetxattr retry once on ESTALE
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/xattr.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 24833de649f8..c127d57bf655 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -505,12 +505,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(lgetxattr, const char __user *, pathname,
{
struct path path;
ssize_t error;
-
- error = user_lpath(pathname, &path);
+ unsigned int lookup_flags = 0;
+retry:
+ error = user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, pathname, lookup_flags, &path);
if (error)
return error;
error = getxattr(path.dentry, name, value, size);
path_put(&path);
+ if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) {
+ lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+ goto retry;
+ }
return error;
}