From f46d3567b223e41e1f2faeb82d3b74a6d84fc508 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Layton Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:10:08 -0500 Subject: vfs: fix symlinkat to retry on ESTALE errors Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/namei.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/namei.c') diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 1beebc1a38c9..b06a111591a8 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; -- cgit v1.2.3