[PATCH 07/12] fs, block: Add copy_file_range() support for block devices

Bart Van Assche
2026-04-24T22:42:41Z

Add copy_file_range() support for block devices. If input and output block
devices have been opened with O_DIRECT and if copy offloading is supported
use blkdev_copy_offload(). Otherwise use splice_copy_file_range().

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Anuj Gupta <anuj20.g@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
---
block/fops.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 54 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block/fops.c b/block/fops.c
index bb6642b45937..f438503f1b77 100644
--- a/block/fops.c
+++ b/block/fops.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/iomap.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/io_uring/cmd.h>
+#include <linux/splice.h>
#include "blk.h"

static inline struct inode *bdev_file_inode(struct file *file)
@@ -861,6 +862,58 @@ static ssize_t blkdev_read_iter(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *to)
return ret;
}

+static ssize_t blkdev_copy_file_range(struct file *file_in, loff_t pos_in,
+ struct file *file_out, loff_t pos_out,
+ size_t len, unsigned int flags)
+{
+ struct block_device *in_bdev = I_BDEV(bdev_file_inode(file_in));
+ struct block_device *out_bdev = I_BDEV(bdev_file_inode(file_out));
+ loff_t in_end, out_end;
+ int err;
+
+ if (check_add_overflow(pos_in, len, &in_end) ||
+ PAGE_ALIGN(in_end) < in_end ||
+ check_add_overflow(pos_out, len, &out_end) ||
+ PAGE_ALIGN(out_end) < out_end)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /*
+ * filemap_write_and_wait_range() and filemap_invalidate_inode() expect
+ * that the 'end' argument is rounded up to the next multiple of
+ * PAGE_SIZE.
+ */
+ in_end = PAGE_ALIGN(in_end);
+ out_end = PAGE_ALIGN(out_end);
+
+ if (bdev_max_copy_sectors(in_bdev) && bdev_max_copy_sectors(out_bdev) &&
+ file_in->f_iocb_flags & file_out->f_iocb_flags & IOCB_DIRECT) {
+ struct blk_copy_seg in_seg = { .pos = pos_in, .len = len };
+ struct blk_copy_seg out_seg = { .pos = pos_out, .len = len };
+ struct blk_copy_params params = {
+ .in_bdev = in_bdev,
+ .out_bdev = out_bdev,
+ .in_nseg = 1,
+ .in_segs = &in_seg,
+ .out_nseg = 1,
+ .out_segs = &out_seg,
+ };
+ err = filemap_write_and_wait_range(file_in->f_mapping, pos_in,
+ in_end);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ err = filemap_invalidate_inode(bdev_file_inode(file_out),
+ /*flush=*/false,
+ pos_out, out_end);
+ if (err)
+ return err;
+ if (blkdev_copy_offload(&params) == 0)
+ return len;
+ /* If copy offloading fails, fall back to onloading. */
+ }
+
+ return splice_copy_file_range(file_in, pos_in, file_out, pos_out, len);
+}
+
#define BLKDEV_FALLOC_FL_SUPPORTED \
(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE | \
FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE | FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES)
@@ -967,6 +1020,7 @@ const struct file_operations def_blk_fops = {
.fallocate = blkdev_fallocate,
.uring_cmd = blkdev_uring_cmd,
.fop_flags = FOP_BUFFER_RASYNC,
+ .copy_file_range = blkdev_copy_file_range,
};

static __init int blkdev_init(void)