vfs: fix linkat to retry once on ESTALE errors
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index b06a111..6868699 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3626,12 +3626,13 @@
if (flags & AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW)
how |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
-
+retry:
error = user_path_at(olddfd, oldname, how, &old_path);
if (error)
return error;
- new_dentry = user_path_create(newdfd, newname, &new_path, 0);
+ new_dentry = user_path_create(newdfd, newname, &new_path,
+ (how & LOOKUP_REVAL));
error = PTR_ERR(new_dentry);
if (IS_ERR(new_dentry))
goto out;
@@ -3648,6 +3649,10 @@
error = vfs_link(old_path.dentry, new_path.dentry->d_inode, new_dentry);
out_dput:
done_path_create(&new_path, new_dentry);
+ if (retry_estale(error, how)) {
+ how |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+ goto retry;
+ }
out:
path_put(&old_path);