[PATCH v7 44/49] vfs: make getxattr retry once on an ESTALE error

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Tue Oct 2 00:16:53 UTC 2012


Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
---
 fs/xattr.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index d981635..1775213 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -479,12 +479,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(getxattr, const char __user *, pathname,
 {
 	struct path path;
 	ssize_t error;
+	unsigned int try = 0;
+	unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
 
-	error = user_path(pathname, &path);
-	if (error)
-		return error;
-	error = getxattr(path.dentry, name, value, size);
-	path_put(&path);
+	do {
+		error = user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, pathname, lookup_flags, &path);
+		if (error)
+			break;
+		error = getxattr(path.dentry, name, value, size);
+		path_put(&path);
+		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+	} while (retry_estale(error, try++));
 	return error;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.11.4




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