The patch titled Subject: fs: sendfile handles O_NONBLOCK of out_fd has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is fs-sendfile-handles-o_nonblock-of-out_fd.patch This patch should soon appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs: sendfile handles O_NONBLOCK of out_fd sendfile has to return EAGAIN if out_fd is nonblocking and the write into it would block. Here is a small reproducer for the problem: #define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */ #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <errno.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/sendfile.h> #define FILE_SIZE (1UL << 30) int main(int argc, char **argv) { int p[2], fd; if (pipe2(p, O_NONBLOCK)) return 1; fd = open(argv[1], O_RDWR | O_TMPFILE, 0666); if (fd < 0) return 1; ftruncate(fd, FILE_SIZE); if (sendfile(p[1], fd, 0, FILE_SIZE) == -1) { fprintf(stderr, "FAIL\n"); } if (sendfile(p[1], fd, 0, FILE_SIZE) != -1 || errno != EAGAIN) { fprintf(stderr, "FAIL\n"); } return 0; } It worked before b964bf53e540, it is stuck after b964bf53e540, and it works again with this fix. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220415005015.525191-1-avagin@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: b964bf53e540 ("teach sendfile(2) to handle send-to-pipe directly") Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/read_write.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/fs/read_write.c~fs-sendfile-handles-o_nonblock-of-out_fd +++ a/fs/read_write.c @@ -1247,6 +1247,9 @@ static ssize_t do_sendfile(int out_fd, i count, fl); file_end_write(out.file); } else { + if (out.file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) + fl |= SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK; + retval = splice_file_to_pipe(in.file, opipe, &pos, count, fl); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from avagin@xxxxxxxxx are fs-sendfile-handles-o_nonblock-of-out_fd.patch