Re: [PATCH] fs: 9p: add generic splice_read file operations

[Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>]

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote on Tue, Dec 01, 2020:
> The v9fs file operations were missing the splice_read operations, which
> breaks sendfile() of files on such a filesystem. I discovered this while
> trying to load an eBPF program using iproute2 inside a 'virtme' environment
> which uses 9pfs for the virtual file system. iproute2 relies on sendfile()
> with an AF_ALG socket to hash files, which was erroring out in the virtual
> environment.
> 
> Since generic_file_splice_read() seems to just implement splice_read in
> terms of the read_iter operation, I simply added the generic implementation
> to the file operations, which fixed the error I was seeing. A quick grep
> indicates that this is what most other file systems do as well.

Good catch, might as well do that.
I'm surprised you didn't hit the same problem with splice_write?

I see iter_file_splice_write being used for it on many filesystems,
it's probably better to add both?


> The only caveat is that my test case was only hitting the
> v9fs_file_operations_dotl implementation. I added it to the other file
> operations structs as well because it seemed like the sensible thing to do
> given that they all implement read_iter, but those are only compile tested.

The logic is close enough that it should work, I'll run it through in
cached mode at least first though (just mount with cache=loose or
cache=fscache to hit v9fs_cached_file_operations_dotl yourself if you
want to)
non-dotl operations are harder to test, I don't have any server
compatible either so we'll have to trust it works close enough...

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Dominique