Clearly, we can't handle the NULL filename case, but we can deal with the case where there's a real pathname. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/utimes.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/utimes.c b/fs/utimes.c index bb0696a..2b91adc2 100644 --- a/fs/utimes.c +++ b/fs/utimes.c @@ -155,16 +155,21 @@ long do_utimes(int dfd, const char __user *filename, struct timespec *times, } else { struct path path; int lookup_flags = 0; + unsigned int try = 0; if (!(flags & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)) lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW; - error = user_path_at(dfd, filename, lookup_flags, &path); - if (error) - goto out; + do { + error = user_path_at(dfd, filename, + lookup_flags, &path); + if (error) + break; - error = utimes_common(&path, times); - path_put(&path); + error = utimes_common(&path, times); + path_put(&path); + lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL; + } while (retry_estale(error, try++)); } out: -- 1.7.11.7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html