@@ -2062,6 +2062,27 @@ extern struct file * dentry_open(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *, int,
extern int filp_close(struct file *, fl_owner_t id);
extern char * getname(const char __user *);
+/**
+ * retry_estale - determine whether the caller should retry an operation
+ *
+ * @error: the error we'll be returning
+ * @try: number of retries already performed
+ *
+ * Check to see if the error code was -ESTALE, and then determine whether
+ * to retry the call based on the number of retries so far. Currently, we only
+ * retry the call once.
+ *
+ * Returns true if the caller should try again.
+ */
+static inline bool
+retry_estale(const long error, const unsigned int try)
+{
+ if (likely(error != -ESTALE))
+ return false;
+
+ return !try;
+}
+
/* fs/ioctl.c */
extern int ioctl_preallocate(struct file *filp, void __user *argp);
This function is expected to be called from path-based syscalls to help them decide whether to try the lookup and call again in the event that they got an -ESTALE return back on an earier try. Currently, we only retry the call once on an ESTALE error, but in the event that we decide that that's not enough in the future, we should be able to change the logic in this helper without too much effort. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> --- include/linux/fs.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)