ptlrpc_req_finished(req);
ll_intent_drop_lock(itp);
+ /* We did open by fid, but by the time we got to the server,
+ * the object disappeared. If this is a create, we cannot really
+ * tell the userspace that the file it was trying to create
+ * does not exist. Instead let's return -ESTALE, and the VFS will
+ * retry the create with LOOKUP_REVAL that we are going to catch
+ * in ll_revalidate_dentry() and use lookup then.
+ */
+ if (rc == -ENOENT && itp->it_op & IT_CREAT)
+ rc = -ESTALE;
+
RETURN(rc);
}