On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 10:51 +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> Introduce FMODE_SPLICE_READ and FMODE_SPLICE_WRITE. These modes check
> whether it is legal to read or write a file using splice. Both get
> automatically set on regular files and are not checked when a 'struct
> fileoperations' includes the splice_{read,write} methods.
>
Could you add a description of the problem that this solves? I assume
you hit a problem trying to splice to/from a non-regular file, but it'd
be good to know what that problem was.
Thanks,
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/open.c | 4 ++++
> fs/splice.c | 6 ++++++
> include/linux/fs.h | 5 +++++
> 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
> index 9921f70..b71259c 100644
> --- a/fs/open.c
> +++ b/fs/open.c
> @@ -733,6 +733,10 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,
> if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
> f->f_mode |= FMODE_ATOMIC_POS;
>
> + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
> + f->f_mode |= FMODE_SPLICE_WRITE | FMODE_SPLICE_READ;
> +
> +
> f->f_op = fops_get(inode->i_fop);
> if (unlikely(WARN_ON(!f->f_op))) {
> error = -ENODEV;
> diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
> index 873d831..b0cfcb2 100644
> --- a/fs/splice.c
> +++ b/fs/splice.c
> @@ -397,6 +397,9 @@ static ssize_t default_file_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
> if (pipe->nrbufs == pipe->buffers)
> return -EAGAIN;
>
> + if (unlikely(!(in->f_mode & FMODE_SPLICE_READ)))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> /*
> * Try to keep page boundaries matching to source pagecache ones -
> * it probably won't be much help, but...
> @@ -825,6 +828,9 @@ static ssize_t default_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
> {
> ssize_t ret;
>
> + if (unlikely(!(out->f_mode & FMODE_SPLICE_WRITE)))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> ret = splice_from_pipe(pipe, out, ppos, len, flags, write_pipe_buf);
> if (ret > 0)
> *ppos += ret;
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index 2ba0743..30477c5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -143,6 +143,11 @@ typedef int (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset,
> /* File was opened by fanotify and shouldn't generate fanotify events */
> #define FMODE_NONOTIFY ((__force fmode_t)0x4000000)
>
> +/* File can be read using splice */
> +#define FMODE_SPLICE_READ ((__force fmode_t)0x8000000)
> +/* File can be written using splice */
> +#define FMODE_SPLICE_WRITE ((__force fmode_t)0x10000000)
> +
> /*
> * Flag for rw_copy_check_uvector and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector
> * that indicates that they should check the contents of the iovec are
--
Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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