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vfs: make getxattr retry once on an ESTALE error

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Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Jeff Layton 2012-12-11 12:10:16 -05:00 committed by Al Viro
parent 49e09e1cc5
commit 60e66b48ca
1 changed files with 7 additions and 2 deletions
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fs/xattr.c
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@ -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;
}