vfs: fix symlinkat to retry 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 1beebc1..b06a111 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3521,12 +3521,13 @@
struct filename *from;
struct dentry *dentry;
struct path path;
+ unsigned int lookup_flags = 0;
from = getname(oldname);
if (IS_ERR(from))
return PTR_ERR(from);
-
- dentry = user_path_create(newdfd, newname, &path, 0);
+retry:
+ dentry = user_path_create(newdfd, newname, &path, lookup_flags);
error = PTR_ERR(dentry);
if (IS_ERR(dentry))
goto out_putname;
@@ -3535,6 +3536,10 @@
if (!error)
error = vfs_symlink(path.dentry->d_inode, dentry, from->name);
done_path_create(&path, dentry);
+ if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) {
+ lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+ goto retry;
+ }
out_putname:
putname(from);
return error;