linux.git/fs/splice.c, branch v6.14

fs/pipe: add simpler helpers for common cases

2025-03-07T04:25:35+00:00

The fix to atomically read the pipe head and tail state when not holding
the pipe mutex has caused a number of headaches due to the size change
of the involved types.

It turns out that we don't have _that_ many places that access these
fields directly and were affected, but we have more than we strictly
should have, because our low-level helper functions have been designed
to have intimate knowledge of how the pipes work.

And as a result, that random noise of direct 'pipe->head' and
'pipe->tail' accesses makes it harder to pinpoint any actual potential
problem spots remaining.

For example, we didn't have a "is the pipe full" helper function, but
instead had a "given these pipe buffer indexes and this pipe size, is
the pipe full".  That's because some low-level pipe code does actually
want that much more complicated interface.

But most other places literally just want a "is the pipe full" helper,
and not having it meant that those places ended up being unnecessarily
much too aware of this all.

It would have been much better if only the very core pipe code that
cared had been the one aware of this all.

So let's fix it - better late than never.  This just introduces the
trivial wrappers for "is this pipe full or empty" and to get how many
pipe buffers are used, so that instead of writing

        if (pipe_full(pipe->head, pipe->tail, pipe->max_usage))

the places that literally just want to know if a pipe is full can just
say

        if (pipe_is_full(pipe))

instead.  The existing trivial cases were converted with a 'sed' script.

This cuts down on the places that access pipe->head and pipe->tail
directly outside of the pipe code (and core splice code) quite a lot.

The splice code in particular still revels in doing the direct low-level
accesses, and the fuse fuse_dev_splice_write() code also seems a bit
unnecessarily eager to go very low-level, but it's at least a bit better
than it used to be.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: alloc_pages_bulk: rename API

2025-01-26T04:22:31+00:00

The previous commit removed the page_list argument from
alloc_pages_bulk_noprof() along with the alloc_pages_bulk_list() function.

Now that only the *_array() flavour of the API remains, we can do the
following renaming (along with the _noprof() ones):

  alloc_pages_bulk_array -> alloc_pages_bulk
  alloc_pages_bulk_array_mempolicy -> alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy
  alloc_pages_bulk_array_node -> alloc_pages_bulk_node

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/275a3bbc0be20fbe9002297d60045e67ab3d4ada.1734991165.git.luizcap@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino 
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Yunsheng Lin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

fdget(), more trivial conversions

2024-11-03T06:28:06+00:00

all failure exits prior to fdget() leave the scope, all matching fdput()
are immediately followed by leaving the scope.

[xfs_ioc_commit_range() chunk moved here as well]

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

convert vmsplice() to CLASS(fd)

2024-11-03T06:28:06+00:00

Irregularity here is fdput() not in the same scope as fdget(); we could
just lift it out vmsplice_type() in vmsplice(2), but there's no much
point keeping vmsplice_type() separate after that...

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

introduce fd_file(), convert all accessors to it.

2024-08-13T02:00:43+00:00

	For any changes of struct fd representation we need to
turn existing accesses to fields into calls of wrappers.
Accesses to struct fd::flags are very few (3 in linux/file.h,
1 in net/socket.c, 3 in fs/overlayfs/file.c and 3 more in
explicit initializers).
	Those can be dealt with in the commit converting to
new layout; accesses to struct fd::file are too many for that.
	This commit converts (almost) all of f.file to
fd_file(f).  It's not entirely mechanical ('file' is used as
a member name more than just in struct fd) and it does not
even attempt to distinguish the uses in pointer context from
those in boolean context; the latter will be eventually turned
into a separate helper (fd_empty()).

	NOTE: mass conversion to fd_empty(), tempting as it
might be, is a bad idea; better do that piecewise in commit
that convert from fdget...() to CLASS(...).

[conflicts in fs/fhandle.c, kernel/bpf/syscall.c, mm/memcontrol.c
caught by git; fs/stat.c one got caught by git grep]
[fs/xattr.c conflict]

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

remove call_{read,write}_iter() functions

2024-04-15T20:03:25+00:00

These have no clear purpose.  This is effectively a revert of commit
bb7462b6fd64 ("vfs: use helpers for calling f_op->{read,write}_iter()").

The patch was created with the help of a coccinelle script.

Fixes: bb7462b6fd64 ("vfs: use helpers for calling f_op->{read,write}_iter()")
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: use splice_copy_file_range() inline helper

2023-12-12T15:20:02+00:00

generic_copy_file_range() is just a wrapper around splice_file_range(),
which caps the maximum copy length.

The only caller of splice_file_range(), namely __ceph_copy_file_range()
is already ready to cope with short copy.

Move the length capping into splice_file_range() and replace the exported
symbol generic_copy_file_range() with a simple inline helper.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20231204083849.GC32438@lst.de/
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231212094440.250945-3-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

splice: return type ssize_t from all helpers

2023-12-12T15:19:59+00:00

Not sure why some splice helpers return long, maybe historic reasons.
Change them all to return ssize_t to conform to the splice methods and
to the rest of the helpers.

Suggested-by: Christian Brauner 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231208-horchen-helium-d3ec1535ede5@brauner/
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231212094440.250945-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: move file_start_write() into direct_splice_actor()

2023-12-01T10:39:50+00:00

The callers of do_splice_direct() hold file_start_write() on the output
file.

This may cause file permission hooks to be called indirectly on an
overlayfs lower layer, which is on the same filesystem of the output
file and could lead to deadlock with fanotify permission events.

To fix this potential deadlock, move file_start_write() from the callers
into the direct_splice_actor(), so file_start_write() will not be held
while splicing from the input file.

Suggested-by: Josef Bacik 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231128214258.GA2398475@perftesting/
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130141624.3338942-3-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: fork splice_file_range() from do_splice_direct()

2023-12-01T10:39:50+00:00

In preparation of calling do_splice_direct() without file_start_write()
held, create a new helper splice_file_range(), to be called from context
of ->copy_file_range() methods instead of do_splice_direct().

Currently, the only difference is that splice_file_range() does not take
flags argument and that it asserts that file_start_write() is held, but
we factor out a common helper do_splice_direct_actor() that will be used
later.

Use the new helper from __ceph_copy_file_range(), that was incorrectly
passing to do_splice_direct() the copy flags argument as splice flags.
The value of copy flags in ceph is always 0, so it is a smenatic bug fix.

Move the declaration of both helpers to linux/splice.h.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130141624.3338942-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Acked-by: Jeff Layton 
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner