From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Layton Subject: [PATCH v9 24/34] vfs: make lgetxattr retry once on ESTALE Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:22:03 -0500 Message-ID: <1352128933-28526-25-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> References: <1352128933-28526-1-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: <1352128933-28526-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton --- fs/xattr.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c index 42284fc..3a5e3ff 100644 --- a/fs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/xattr.c @@ -505,12 +505,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(lgetxattr, const char __user *, pathname, { struct path path; ssize_t error; + unsigned int try = 0; + unsigned int lookup_flags = 0; - error = user_lpath(pathname, &path); - if (error) - return error; - error = getxattr(path.dentry, name, value, size); - path_put(&path); + do { + error = user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, pathname, lookup_flags, &path); + if (error) + break; + error = getxattr(path.dentry, name, value, size); + path_put(&path); + lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL; + } while (retry_estale(error, try++)); return error; } -- 1.7.11.7