From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> In cachefiles_check_volume_xattr(), the error returned by vfs_getxattr is not passed to ret, so it ends up returning -ESTALE, which leads to an endless loop as follows: cachefiles_acquire_volume retry: cachefiles_check_volume_xattr // return -ESTALE cachefiles_bury_object // EIO causes rename failure goto retry; So pass the error code to ret when xlen < 0 to avoid the above problem. Fixes: 32e150037dce ("fscache, cachefiles: Store the volume coherency data") Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cachefiles/xattr.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c b/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c index bcb6173943ee..20e4a4391090 100644 --- a/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c +++ b/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c @@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ int cachefiles_check_volume_xattr(struct cachefiles_volume *volume) xlen = vfs_getxattr(&nop_mnt_idmap, dentry, cachefiles_xattr_cache, buf, len); if (xlen != len) { if (xlen < 0) { + ret = xlen; trace_cachefiles_vfs_error(NULL, d_inode(dentry), xlen, cachefiles_trace_getxattr_error); if (xlen == -EIO) -- 2.39.2