Add variant of copy_to_iter() that either copies the full amount asked
for and return success, or ensures that the iov_iter is back to where
it started on failure and returns false.
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/uio.h | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 00cebe2b70de..9e9510672b28 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -197,6 +197,16 @@ size_t copy_to_iter(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
return 0;
}
+static __always_inline __must_check
+bool copy_to_iter_full(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
+{
+ size_t copied = copy_to_iter(addr, bytes, i);
+ if (likely(copied == bytes))
+ return true;
+ iov_iter_revert(i, copied);
+ return false;
+}
+
static __always_inline __must_check
size_t copy_from_iter(void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)
{
--
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