Merge tag 'v3.9-rc3' into next

Merge with mainline to bring in module_platform_driver_probe() and
devm_ioremap_resource().

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index 4bf19d8174ed..5a5ff57ceed4 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #define _LINUX_NAMEI_H
 
 #include <linux/dcache.h>
+#include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/linkage.h>
 #include <linux/path.h>
 
@@ -65,8 +66,8 @@ extern int user_path_at_empty(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *,
 
 extern int kern_path(const char *, unsigned, struct path *);
 
-extern struct dentry *kern_path_create(int, const char *, struct path *, int);
-extern struct dentry *user_path_create(int, const char __user *, struct path *, int);
+extern struct dentry *kern_path_create(int, const char *, struct path *, unsigned int);
+extern struct dentry *user_path_create(int, const char __user *, struct path *, unsigned int);
 extern void done_path_create(struct path *, struct dentry *);
 extern struct dentry *kern_path_locked(const char *, struct path *);
 extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
@@ -98,4 +99,20 @@ static inline void nd_terminate_link(void *name, size_t len, size_t maxlen)
 	((char *) name)[min(len, maxlen)] = '\0';
 }
 
+/**
+ * retry_estale - determine whether the caller should retry an operation
+ * @error: the error that would currently be returned
+ * @flags: flags being used for next lookup attempt
+ *
+ * Check to see if the error code was -ESTALE, and then determine whether
+ * to retry the call based on whether "flags" already has LOOKUP_REVAL set.
+ *
+ * Returns true if the caller should try the operation again.
+ */
+static inline bool
+retry_estale(const long error, const unsigned int flags)
+{
+	return error == -ESTALE && !(flags & LOOKUP_REVAL);
+}
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_NAMEI_H */