LU-8371 llite: Trust creates in revalidate too.

[fs/lustre-release.git] / lustre / llite / file.c

diff --git a/lustre/llite/file.c b/lustre/llite/file.c
index 4dc7b5d..b7bd2bf 100644 (file)
--- a/lustre/llite/file.c
+++ b/lustre/llite/file.c
@@ -414,6 +414,16 @@ out:
        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);
 }