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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2012-12-11 12:10:11 -0500
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2012-12-20 18:50:05 -0500
commit87fa55952b7347175c6e2f03874869ad2c055adb (patch)
tree8795b6a6794a1c3988cea32fb2471bd3cd235ef9 /fs
parent48f7530d3f722617aa7cfea62b09b0c1a8d0173e (diff)
vfs: have faccessat retry once on an ESTALE error
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/open.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 07449b911a4..a994ccf39b4 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -316,6 +316,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(faccessat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, int, mode)
struct path path;
struct inode *inode;
int res;
+ unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
if (mode & ~S_IRWXO) /* where's F_OK, X_OK, W_OK, R_OK? */
return -EINVAL;
@@ -338,8 +339,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(faccessat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, int, mode)
}
old_cred = override_creds(override_cred);
-
- res = user_path_at(dfd, filename, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
+retry:
+ res = user_path_at(dfd, filename, lookup_flags, &path);
if (res)
goto out;
@@ -374,6 +375,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(faccessat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, int, mode)
out_path_release:
path_put(&path);
+ if (retry_estale(res, lookup_flags)) {
+ lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+ goto retry;
+ }
out:
revert_creds(old_cred);
put_cred(override_cred);