From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:10:16 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: vfs: make getxattr retry once on an ESTALE error
X-Git-Tag: v3.8-rc1~13^2~5
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60e66b48ca20819d97ec4851007accc0b013985a;p=karo-tx-linux.git

vfs: make getxattr retry once on an ESTALE error

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 74d36e063c8d..24833de649f8 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -486,12 +486,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(getxattr, const char __user *, pathname,
 {
 	struct path path;
 	ssize_t error;
-
-	error = user_path(pathname, &path);
+	unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
+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;
 }