Make a read splice from a file descriptor that's open O_DIRECT use copy_splice_read() to do the reading as filemap_splice_read() is unlikely to find any pagecache to splice. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: linux-block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx --- Notes: ver #21) - Needs to be in vfs_splice_read(), not generic_file_splice_read(). fs/splice.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c index fe3309ffeb26..76126b1aafcb 100644 --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -907,6 +907,12 @@ long vfs_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, if (unlikely(!in->f_op->splice_read)) return warn_unsupported(in, "read"); + /* + * O_DIRECT doesn't deal with the pagecache, so we allocate a buffer, + * copy into it and splice that into the pipe. + */ + if ((in->f_flags & O_DIRECT)) + return copy_splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags); return in->f_op->splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_splice_read);