[PATCH 5/7] namei: clean up do_symlinkat retry logic
From: Dmitry Kadashev <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-12 12:37:21
Also in:
linux-fsdevel
Subsystem:
filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers:
Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds
Moving the main logic to a helper function makes the whole thing much easier to follow. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <redacted> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/CAHk-=wiG+sN+2zSoAOggKCGue2kOJvw3rQySvQXsZstRQFTN+g@mail.gmail.com/ (local) Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kadashev <redacted> --- fs/namei.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 7bf7a9f38ce2..c9110ac83ccb 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c@@ -4237,22 +4237,17 @@ int vfs_symlink(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *dir, } EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_symlink); -int do_symlinkat(struct filename *from, int newdfd, struct filename *to) +static int symlinkat_helper(struct filename *from, int newdfd, + struct filename *to, unsigned int lookup_flags) { int error; struct dentry *dentry; struct path path; - unsigned int lookup_flags = 0; - if (IS_ERR(from)) { - error = PTR_ERR(from); - goto out_putnames; - } -retry: dentry = __filename_create(newdfd, to, &path, lookup_flags); error = PTR_ERR(dentry); if (IS_ERR(dentry)) - goto out_putnames; + return error; error = security_path_symlink(&path, dentry, from->name); if (!error) {
@@ -4263,11 +4258,23 @@ int do_symlinkat(struct filename *from, int newdfd, struct filename *to) from->name); } done_path_create(&path, dentry); - if (retry_estale(error, lookup_flags)) { - lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL; - goto retry; + return error; +} + +int do_symlinkat(struct filename *from, int newdfd, struct filename *to) +{ + int error; + + if (IS_ERR(from)) { + error = PTR_ERR(from); + goto out; } -out_putnames: + + error = symlinkat_helper(from, newdfd, to, 0); + if (retry_estale(error, 0)) + error = symlinkat_helper(from, newdfd, to, LOOKUP_REVAL); + +out: putname(to); putname(from); return error;
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