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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: copy_file_range return value on FUSE
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:41:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lhuh5ynl8z5.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)

The FUSE protocol uses struct fuse_write_out to convey the return value
of copy_file_range, which is restricted to uint32_t.  But the
copy_file_range interface supports a 64-bit copy operation.  Given that
copy_file_range is expected to clone huge files, large copies are not
unexpected, so this appears to be a real limitation.

There is another wrinkle: we'd need to check if the process runs in
32-bit compat mode, and reject size_t arguments larger than INT_MAX in
this case (with EOVERFLOW presumably).  But perhaps this should be
handled on the kernel side?  Currently, this doesn't seem to happen, and
we can get copy_file_range results in the in-band error range.
Applications have no way to disambiguate this.

Thanks,
Florian


             reply	other threads:[~2025-08-04  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-04  9:41 Florian Weimer [this message]
2025-08-04 13:30 ` [fuse-devel] copy_file_range return value on FUSE Miklos Szeredi
2025-08-04 14:30   ` Florian Weimer

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