vfs: make getxattr retry once on an ESTALE error
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 74d36e0..24833de 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -486,12 +486,17 @@
{
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;
}