Commit 60e66b48 authored by Jeff Layton's avatar Jeff Layton Committed by Al Viro

vfs: make getxattr retry once on an ESTALE error

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 49e09e1c
......@@ -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;
}
......
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