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>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 74d36e063c8d..24833de649f8 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -486,12 +486,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(getxattr, const char __user *, pathname,
 {
         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;
 }