Doing copy_file_range() on exfat with a file opened for direct IO leads to an -EFAULT: # xfs_io -f -d -c "truncate 32768" \ -c "copy_range -d 16384 -l 16384 -f 0" /mnt/test/junk copy_range: Bad address and the reason seems to be that we go through: default_file_splice_write splice_from_pipe __splice_from_pipe write_pipe_buf __kernel_write new_sync_write generic_file_write_iter generic_file_direct_write exfat_direct_IO do_blockdev_direct_IO iov_iter_get_pages and land in iterate_all_kinds(), which does "return -EFAULT" for our kvec iter. Setting exfat's splice_write to iter_file_splice_write fixes this and lets fsx (which originally detected the problem) run to success from the xfstests harness. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- I know that's not a good changelog; I conferred with viro about whether this is correct, but I still don't have a great explanation, so feel free to fix up the changelog to be more informative if the change is otherwise correct... diff --git a/fs/exfat/file.c b/fs/exfat/file.c index 4f76764165cf..c9db8eb0cfc3 100644 --- a/fs/exfat/file.c +++ b/fs/exfat/file.c @@ -348,12 +348,13 @@ int exfat_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr) } const struct file_operations exfat_file_operations = { - .llseek = generic_file_llseek, - .read_iter = generic_file_read_iter, - .write_iter = generic_file_write_iter, - .mmap = generic_file_mmap, - .fsync = generic_file_fsync, - .splice_read = generic_file_splice_read, + .llseek = generic_file_llseek, + .read_iter = generic_file_read_iter, + .write_iter = generic_file_write_iter, + .mmap = generic_file_mmap, + .fsync = generic_file_fsync, + .splice_read = generic_file_splice_read, + .splice_write = iter_file_splice_write, }; const struct inode_operations exfat_file_inode_operations = {