Re: [PATCH 02/10] fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops

David Howells
2020-10-27T09:52:36Z

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> > default_file_splice_write is the last piece of generic code that uses
> > set_fs to make the uaccess routines operate on kernel pointers. It
> > implements a "fallback loop" for splicing from files that do not actually
> > provide a proper splice_read method. The usual file systems and other
> > high bandwith instances all provide a ->splice_read, so this just removes
> > support for various device drivers and procfs/debugfs files. If splice
> > support for any of those turns out to be important it can be added back
> > by switching them to the iter ops and using generic_file_splice_read.
>
> Hmmm... this causes the copy_file_range() syscall to fail with EINVAL in some
> places where before it used to work.
>
> For my part, it causes the generic/112 xfstest to fail with afs, but there may
> be other places.
>
> Is this a regression we need to fix in the VFS core? Or is it something we
> need to fix in xfstests and assume userspace will fallback to doing it itself?

That said, for afs at least, the fix seems to be just this:

diff --git a/fs/afs/file.c b/fs/afs/file.c
index 395075d7fe02..2bc6adfe351a 100644
--- a/fs/afs/file.c
+++ b/fs/afs/file.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ const struct file_operations afs_file_operations = {
.write_iter = afs_file_write,
.mmap = afs_file_mmap,
.splice_read = generic_file_splice_read,
+ .splice_write = iter_file_splice_write,
.fsync = afs_fsync,
.lock = afs_lock,
.flock = afs_flock,

David