linux.git/fs/splice.c, branch v4.6

Merge branch 'ovl-fixes' into for-linus

2016-05-11T04:00:29+00:00

mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros

2016-04-04T17:41:08+00:00

PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 -  << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ;

 -  >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> ;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -> get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -> put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

do_splice_to(): cap the size before passing to ->splice_read()

2016-04-03T23:52:59+00:00

pipe capacity won't exceed 2G anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branches 'work.lookups', 'work.misc' and 'work.preadv2' into for-next

2016-03-18T20:07:38+00:00

splice: handle zero nr_pages in splice_to_pipe()

2016-03-18T20:06:44+00:00

Running the following command:

 busybox cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe > /dev/null

with any tracing enabled pretty very quickly leads to various NULL
pointer dereferences and VM BUG_ON()s, such as these:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
 IP: [] generic_pipe_buf_release+0xc/0x40
 Call Trace:
  [] splice_direct_to_actor+0x143/0x1e0
  [] ? generic_pipe_buf_nosteal+0x10/0x10
  [] do_splice_direct+0x8f/0xb0
  [] do_sendfile+0x199/0x380
  [] SyS_sendfile64+0x90/0xa0
  [] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6d

 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(atomic_read(&page->_count) == 0)
 kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:367!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 RIP: [] generic_pipe_buf_release+0x3c/0x40
 Call Trace:
  [] splice_direct_to_actor+0x143/0x1e0
  [] ? generic_pipe_buf_nosteal+0x10/0x10
  [] do_splice_direct+0x8f/0xb0
  [] do_sendfile+0x199/0x380
  [] SyS_sendfile64+0x90/0xa0
  [] tracesys_phase2+0x84/0x89

(busybox's cat uses sendfile(2), unlike the coreutils version)

This is because tracing_splice_read_pipe() can call splice_to_pipe()
with spd->nr_pages == 0.  spd_pages underflows in splice_to_pipe() and
we fill the page pointers and the other fields of the pipe_buffers with
garbage.

All other callers of splice_to_pipe() avoid calling it when nr_pages ==
0, and we could make tracing_splice_read_pipe() do that too, but it
seems reasonable to have splice_to_page() handle this condition
gracefully.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: pass a flags argument to vfs_readv/vfs_writev

2016-03-04T17:20:10+00:00

This way we can set kiocb flags also from the sync read/write path for
the read_iter/write_iter operations.  For now there is no way to pass
flags to plain read/write operations as there is no real need for that,
and all flags passed are explicitly rejected for these files.

Signed-off-by: Milosz Tanski 
[hch: rebased on top of my kiocb changes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Stephen Bates 
Tested-by: Stephen Bates 
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE

2016-01-09T07:55:35+00:00

During testing, I discovered that __generic_file_splice_read() returns
0 (EOF) when aops->readpage fails with AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE on the first
page of a single/multi-page splice read operation. This EOF return code
causes the userspace test to (correctly) report a zero-length read error
when it was expecting otherwise.

The current strategy of returning a partial non-zero read when ->readpage
returns AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE works only when the failed page is not the
first of the lot being processed.

This patch attempts to retry lookup and call ->readpage again on pages
that had previously failed with AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. With this patch, my
tests pass and I haven't noticed any unwanted side effects.

This version removes the thrice-retry loop and instead indefinitely
retries lookups on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE errors from ->readpage. This
behavior is now similar to do_generic_file_read().

Signed-off-by: Abhi Das 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Bob Peterson 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2)

2015-11-24T02:15:30+00:00

The following test program from Dmitry can cause softlockups or RCU
stalls as it copies 1GB from tmpfs into eventfd and we don't have any
scheduling point at that path in sendfile(2) implementation:

        int r1 = eventfd(0, 0);
        int r2 = memfd_create("", 0);
        unsigned long n = 1<<30;
        fallocate(r2, 0, 0, n);
        sendfile(r1, r2, 0, n);

Add cond_resched() into __splice_from_pipe() to fix the problem.

CC: Dmitry Vyukov 
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: Make sendfile(2) killable even better

2015-11-24T02:15:30+00:00

Commit 296291cdd162 (mm: make sendfile(2) killable) fixed an issue where
sendfile(2) was doing a lot of tiny writes into a filesystem and thus
was unkillable for a long time. However sendfile(2) can be (mis)used to
issue lots of writes into arbitrary file descriptor such as evenfd or
similar special file descriptors which never hit the standard filesystem
write path and thus are still unkillable. E.g. the following example
from Dmitry burns CPU for ~16s on my test system without possibility to
be killed:

        int r1 = eventfd(0, 0);
        int r2 = memfd_create("", 0);
        unsigned long n = 1<<30;
        fallocate(r2, 0, 0, n);
        sendfile(r1, r2, 0, n);

There are actually quite a few tests for pending signals in sendfile
code however we data to write is always available none of them seems to
trigger. So fix the problem by adding a test for pending signal into
splice_from_pipe_next() also before the loop waiting for pipe buffers to
be available. This should fix all the lockup issues with sendfile of the
do-ton-of-tiny-writes nature.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

mm, fs: introduce mapping_gfp_constraint()

2015-11-07T01:50:42+00:00

There are many places which use mapping_gfp_mask to restrict a more
generic gfp mask which would be used for allocations which are not
directly related to the page cache but they are performed in the same
context.

Let's introduce a helper function which makes the restriction explicit and
easier to track.  This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds