Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlay...@redhat.com>
---
 fs/xattr.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index fbb93d7..6be45cd 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -571,12 +571,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(listxattr, const char __user *, pathname, 
char __user *, list,
 {
        struct path path;
        ssize_t error;
+       unsigned int try = 0;
+       unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
 
-       error = user_path(pathname, &path);
-       if (error)
-               return error;
-       error = listxattr(path.dentry, list, size);
-       path_put(&path);
+       do {
+               error = user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, pathname, lookup_flags, &path);
+               if (error)
+                       break;
+               error = listxattr(path.dentry, list, size);
+               path_put(&path);
+               lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_REVAL;
+       } while (retry_estale(error, try++));
        return error;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.11.4

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