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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/namei.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/namei.h | 20 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index 4bf19d8174ed..e998c030061d 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h @@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ extern int user_path_at_empty(int, const char __user *, unsigned, struct path *, extern int kern_path(const char *, unsigned, struct path *); -extern struct dentry *kern_path_create(int, const char *, struct path *, int); -extern struct dentry *user_path_create(int, const char __user *, struct path *, int); +extern struct dentry *kern_path_create(int, const char *, struct path *, unsigned int); +extern struct dentry *user_path_create(int, const char __user *, struct path *, unsigned int); extern void done_path_create(struct path *, struct dentry *); extern struct dentry *kern_path_locked(const char *, struct path *); extern int vfs_path_lookup(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *, @@ -98,4 +98,20 @@ static inline void nd_terminate_link(void *name, size_t len, size_t maxlen) ((char *) name)[min(len, maxlen)] = '\0'; } +/** + * retry_estale - determine whether the caller should retry an operation + * @error: the error that would currently be returned + * @flags: flags being used for next lookup attempt + * + * Check to see if the error code was -ESTALE, and then determine whether + * to retry the call based on whether "flags" already has LOOKUP_REVAL set. + * + * Returns true if the caller should try the operation again. + */ +static inline bool +retry_estale(const long error, const unsigned int flags) +{ + return error == -ESTALE && !(flags & LOOKUP_REVAL); +} + #endif /* _LINUX_NAMEI_H */ |