From: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/unionfs/inode.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/unionfs/inode.c b/fs/unionfs/inode.c
index edd226f..5c452b6 100644
--- a/fs/unionfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/unionfs/inode.c
@@ -843,8 +843,21 @@ static int unionfs_permission(struct inode *inode, int
mask,
const int is_file = !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode);
const int write_mask = (mask & MAY_WRITE) && !(mask & MAY_READ);
+ unionfs_read_lock(inode->i_sb);
+
bstart = ibstart(inode);
bend = ibend(inode);
+ if (bstart < 0 || bend < 0) {
+ /*
+ * With branch-management, we can get a stale inode here.
+ * If so, we return ESTALE back to link_path_walk, which
+ * would discard the dcache entry and re-lookup the
+ * dentry+inode. This should be equivalent to issuing
+ * __unionfs_d_revalidate_chain on nd.dentry here.
+ */
+ err = -ESTALE; /* force revalidate */
+ goto out;
+ }
for (bindex = bstart; bindex <= bend; bindex++) {
hidden_inode = unionfs_lower_inode_idx(inode, bindex);
@@ -881,6 +894,7 @@ static int unionfs_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask,
}
out:
+ unionfs_read_unlock(inode->i_sb);
return err;
}
--
1.5.0.3.268.g3dda
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