commit e046b7bb04cce627982dca58b698bace8dc2fe53
Author: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:   Thu Mar 22 20:17:48 2007 -0400

    Unionfs: Properly handle stale inodes passed to unionfs_permission
    
    Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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;
 }
 
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