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

[Jeff Layton]

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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