From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
"William A . Kennington III" <wak@google.com>,
Lei YU <mine260309@gmail.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jffs2: Hook up splice_write callback
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 18:31:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGNuZMUkzH0tkce6@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210330161715.GA12783@lst.de>
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:17:15PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:15:37AM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> > overlayfs using jffs2 as the upper filesystem would fail in some cases
> > since moving to v5.10. The test case used was to run 'touch' on a file
> > that exists in the lower fs, causing the modification time to be
> > updated. It returns EINVAL when the bug is triggered.
> >
> > A bisection showed this was introduced in v5.9-rc1, with commit
> > 36e2c7421f02 ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops").
> > Reverting that commit restores the expected behaviour.
> >
> > Some digging showed that this was due to jffs2 lacking an implementation
> > of splice_write. (For unknown reasons the warn_unsupported that should
> > trigger was not displaying any output).
> >
> > Adding this patch resolved the issue and the test now passes.
>
> Looks good:
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The same goes for quite a few other filesystems, actually - at least
adfs, affs, bfs, hfs, hfsplus, hostfs, hpfs, minix, omfs, sysv, ufs
and vboxsf are in the same boat, and I suspect that ecryptfs and ntfs
might be too.
Christoph, do you see any problems with doing the same thing for that
bunch as well?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-30 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-30 13:45 [PATCH] jffs2: Hook up splice_write callback Joel Stanley
2021-03-30 16:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-30 18:31 ` Al Viro [this message]
2021-03-30 18:38 ` Al Viro
2021-03-31 14:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31 4:55 ` Lei YU
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