Re: [PATCH RFC] vfs: make fstatat retry on ESTALE errors fromgetattr call

[Jeff Layton]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:48:42 -0400
Peter Staubach <pstaubach@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't think that the code ends up being all that complex, actually.  I will have to dig out the patches that I had previously to look to see what they did.  I am pretty sure that they handled all of these cases.  I also had some tests which exercised the modified path based system calls and at least, at one point in time, they would run without returning ESTALE to the user level.
> 
> Let me see what I can find.  SteveD, you wouldn't have squirrelled away a copy of my stuff from Red Hat, would you?
> 
> 	Thanx...
> 
> 		ps
> 

Yes, your original set was very comprehensive, AFAICT. I'm not sure if
it'll apply to mainline well at this point, but I was definitely using
it as a guideline for what to do here.

The cover letter for the patchset that you sent out a few years ago had
a testcase in it. I was planning to use that to test once I start
broading this to other syscalls:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/10/267

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Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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