[PATCH v6 03/20] vfs: fix readlinkat to retry on ESTALE

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Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/stat.c | 16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index d90258d..9719df1 100644
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -300,14 +300,21 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(readlinkat, int, dfd, const char __user *, pathname,
 	struct path path;
 	int error;
 	int empty = 0;
+	unsigned int try = 0;
+	unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_EMPTY;
 
 	if (bufsiz <= 0)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	error = user_path_at_empty(dfd, pathname, LOOKUP_EMPTY, &path, &empty);
-	if (!error) {
-		struct inode *inode = path.dentry->d_inode;
+	do {
+		struct inode *inode;
+
+		error = user_path_at_empty(dfd, pathname, lookup_flags,
+					   &path, &empty);
+		if (error)
+			break;
 
+		inode = path.dentry->d_inode;
 		error = empty ? -ENOENT : -EINVAL;
 		if (inode->i_op->readlink) {
 			error = security_inode_readlink(path.dentry);
@@ -318,7 +325,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(readlinkat, int, dfd, const char __user *, pathname,
 			}
 		}
 		path_put(&path);
-	}
+		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+	} while (retry_estale(error, try++));
 	return error;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.11.4

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