From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Layton Subject: [PATCH v8 20/32] vfs: allow utimensat() calls to retry once on an ESTALE error Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:33:27 -0400 Message-ID: <1351341219-17837-21-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> References: <1351341219-17837-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael.brantley@deshaw.com, hch@infradead.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, pstaubach@exagrid.com To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1351341219-17837-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Clearly, we can't handle the NULL filename case, but we can deal with the case where there's a real pathname. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton --- fs/utimes.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c index bb0696a..2b91adc2 100644 --- a/fs/utimes.c +++ b/fs/utimes.c @@ -155,16 +155,21 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, const char __user *filename, struct timespec *times, } else { struct path path; int lookup_flags = 0; + unsigned int try = 0; if (!(flags & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)) lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW; - error = user_path_at(dfd, filename, lookup_flags, &path); - if (error) - goto out; + do { + error = user_path_at(dfd, filename, + lookup_flags, &path); + if (error) + break; - error = utimes_common(&path, times); - path_put(&path); + error = utimes_common(&path, times); + path_put(&path); + lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL; + } while (retry_estale(error, try++)); } out: -- 1.7.11.7