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-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 74d36e063c8d..24833de649f8 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -486,12 +486,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(getxattr, const char __user *, pathname,
{
struct path path;
ssize_t error;
-
- error = user_path(pathname, &path);
+ unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
+retry:
+ error = user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, pathname, lookup_flags, &path);
if (error)
return error;
error = getxattr(path.dentry, name, value, size);
path_put(&path);
+ if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) {
+ lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+ goto retry;
+ }
return error;
}