Re: iov_iter_pipe warning.

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:50:24PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> currently running v4.11-rc8-75-gf83246089ca0
> 
> sunrpc bit is for the other unrelated problem I'm chasing.
> 
> note also, I saw the backtrace without the fs/splice.c changes.

	Interesting...  Could you add this and see if that triggers?

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 540c4a44756c..12a12d9c313f 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -306,6 +306,9 @@ ssize_t generic_file_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
 	kiocb.ki_pos = *ppos;
 	ret = call_read_iter(in, &kiocb, &to);
 	if (ret > 0) {
+		if (WARN_ON(iov_iter_count(&to) != len - ret))
+			printk(KERN_ERR "ops %p: was %zd, left %zd, returned %d\n",
+				in->f_op, len, iov_iter_count(&to), ret);
 		*ppos = kiocb.ki_pos;
 		file_accessed(in);
 	} else if (ret < 0) {