[PATCH v2 08/15] vfs: fix mknodat to retry on ESTALE errors

[Jeff Layton]

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/namei.c |   68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 1 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 7025001..c3fbd44 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2589,44 +2589,56 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(mknodat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, umode_t, mode,
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct path path;
 	int error;
+	char *name;
+	unsigned int try = 0;
 
 	if (S_ISDIR(mode))
 		return -EPERM;
 
-	dentry = user_path_create(dfd, filename, &path, 0);
-	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
-		return PTR_ERR(dentry);
+	name = getname(filename);
+	if (IS_ERR(name))
+		return PTR_ERR(name);
 
-	if (!IS_POSIXACL(path.dentry->d_inode))
-		mode &= ~current_umask();
-	error = may_mknod(mode);
-	if (error)
-		goto out_dput;
-	error = mnt_want_write(path.mnt);
-	if (error)
-		goto out_dput;
-	error = security_path_mknod(&path, dentry, mode, dev);
-	if (error)
-		goto out_drop_write;
-	switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
-		case 0: case S_IFREG:
-			error = vfs_create(path.dentry->d_inode,dentry,mode,NULL);
+	do {
+		dentry = kern_path_create(dfd, name, &path, false, try);
+		if (IS_ERR(dentry))
+			return PTR_ERR(dentry);
+
+		if (!IS_POSIXACL(path.dentry->d_inode))
+			mode &= ~current_umask();
+		error = may_mknod(mode);
+		if (error)
+			goto out_dput;
+		error = mnt_want_write(path.mnt);
+		if (error)
+			goto out_dput;
+		error = security_path_mknod(&path, dentry, mode, dev);
+		if (error)
+			goto out_drop_write;
+		switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
+		case 0:
+		case S_IFREG:
+			error = vfs_create(path.dentry->d_inode, dentry,
+					mode, NULL);
 			break;
-		case S_IFCHR: case S_IFBLK:
-			error = vfs_mknod(path.dentry->d_inode,dentry,mode,
+		case S_IFCHR:
+		case S_IFBLK:
+			error = vfs_mknod(path.dentry->d_inode, dentry, mode,
 					new_decode_dev(dev));
 			break;
-		case S_IFIFO: case S_IFSOCK:
-			error = vfs_mknod(path.dentry->d_inode,dentry,mode,0);
-			break;
-	}
+		case S_IFIFO:
+		case S_IFSOCK:
+			error = vfs_mknod(path.dentry->d_inode, dentry,
+					mode, 0);
+		}
 out_drop_write:
-	mnt_drop_write(path.mnt);
+		mnt_drop_write(path.mnt);
 out_dput:
-	dput(dentry);
-	mutex_unlock(&path.dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
-	path_put(&path);
-
+		dput(dentry);
+		mutex_unlock(&path.dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
+		path_put(&path);
+	} while (retry_estale(error, try++));
+	putname(name);
 	return error;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.7.6

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