[PATCH v6 16/20] vfs: make chroot retry once on ESTALE error

From: Jeff Layton
Date: Fri Sep 07 2012 - 10:21:53 EST


Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/open.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 81ba325..a015cb8 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -437,27 +437,32 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(chroot, const char __user *, filename)
{
struct path path;
int error;
+ int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY;
+ unsigned int try = 0;

- error = user_path_dir(filename, &path);
- if (error)
- goto out;
+ do {
+ error = user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, filename, lookup_flags, &path);
+ if (error)
+ break;

- error = inode_permission(path.dentry->d_inode, MAY_EXEC | MAY_CHDIR);
- if (error)
- goto dput_and_out;
+ error = inode_permission(path.dentry->d_inode,
+ MAY_EXEC | MAY_CHDIR);
+ if (error)
+ goto dput_and_out;

- error = -EPERM;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_CHROOT))
- goto dput_and_out;
- error = security_path_chroot(&path);
- if (error)
- goto dput_and_out;
+ error = -EPERM;
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_CHROOT))
+ goto dput_and_out;
+ error = security_path_chroot(&path);
+ if (error)
+ goto dput_and_out;

- set_fs_root(current->fs, &path);
- error = 0;
+ set_fs_root(current->fs, &path);
+ error = 0;
dput_and_out:
- path_put(&path);
-out:
+ path_put(&path);
+ lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+ } while (retry_estale(error, try++));
return error;
}

--
1.7.11.4

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