Re: [PATCH] splice, net: Fix splice_to_socket() for O_NONBLOCK socket

[David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>]

Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 12:12 PM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > LTP sendfile07 [1], which expects sendfile() to return EAGAIN when
> > > transferring data from regular file to a "full" O_NONBLOCK socket,
> > > started failing after commit 2dc334f1a63a ("splice, net: Use
> > > sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than ->sendpage()").
> > > sendfile() no longer immediately returns, but now blocks.
> > >
> > > Removed sock_sendpage() handled this case by setting a MSG_DONTWAIT
> > > flag, fix new splice_to_socket() to do the same for O_NONBLOCK sockets.
> >
> > Does this actually work correctly in all circumstances?
> >
> > The problem might come if you have a splice from a non-rewindable source
> > through a temporary pipe (eg. sendfile() using splice_direct_to_actor()).
> 
> I assumed this was safe, since sendfile / splice_direct_to_actor()
> requires input to be seekable.

Ah!  The test isn't where I was looking for it (in sendfile()) - it's in
splice_direct_to_actor().

I wonder if it's worth making that explicit in do_sendfile() as the
requirement doesn't hold if the output is a pipe (though in such a case,
there's an explicit buffer, so it's not actually a problem).

Anyway, did you want to post this to netdev too so that the networking tree
picks it up?  Feel free to add:

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>