kernel/linux.git/fs/splice.c, branch v5.15.210

use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers

2026-06-19T11:33:46+00:00

[ Upstream commit de4eda9de2d957ef2d6a8365a01e26a435e958cb ] READ/WRITE proved to be actively confusing - the meanings are "data destination, as used with read(2)" and "data source, as used with write(2)", but people keep interpreting those as "we read data from it" and "we write data to it", i.e. exactly the wrong way. Call them ITER_DEST and ITER_SOURCE - at least that is harder to misinterpret... Signed-off-by: Al Viro Stable-dep-of: a4f0b001782b ("vsock/virtio: reset connection on receiving queue overflow") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

splice, net: Add a splice_eof op to file-ops and socket-ops

2025-10-29T13:03:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2bfc66850952b6921b2033b09729ec59eabbc81d ] Add an optional method, ->splice_eof(), to allow splice to indicate the premature termination of a splice to struct file_operations and struct proto_ops. This is called if sendfile() or splice() encounters all of the following conditions inside splice_direct_to_actor(): (1) the user did not set SPLICE_F_MORE (splice only), and (2) an EOF condition occurred (->splice_read() returned 0), and (3) we haven't read enough to fulfill the request (ie. len > 0 still), and (4) we have already spliced at least one byte. A further patch will modify the behaviour of SPLICE_F_MORE to always be passed to the actor if either the user set it or we haven't yet read sufficient data to fulfill the request. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh=V579PDYvkpnTobCLGczbgxpMgGmmhqiTyE34Cpi5Gg@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski cc: Jens Axboe cc: Christoph Hellwig cc: Al Viro cc: Matthew Wilcox cc: Jan Kara cc: Jeff Layton cc: David Hildenbrand cc: Christian Brauner cc: Chuck Lever cc: Boris Pismenny cc: John Fastabend cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Stable-dep-of: b014a4e066c5 ("tls: wait for async encrypt in case of error during latter iterations of sendmsg") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Revert "fs: check FMODE_LSEEK to control internal pipe splicing"

2022-10-26T10:34:17+00:00

This reverts commit fd0a6e99b61e6c08fa5cf585d54fd956f70c73a6. Which was upstream commit 97ef77c52b789ec1411d360ed99dca1efe4b2c81. The commit is missing dependencies and breaks NFS tests, remove it for now. Reported-by: Saeed Mirzamohammadi Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fs: check FMODE_LSEEK to control internal pipe splicing

2022-08-17T12:23:31+00:00

[ Upstream commit 97ef77c52b789ec1411d360ed99dca1efe4b2c81 ] The original direct splicing mechanism from Jens required the input to be a regular file because it was avoiding the special socket case. It also recognized blkdevs as being close enough to a regular file. But it forgot about chardevs, which behave the same way and work fine here. This is an okayish heuristic, but it doesn't totally work. For example, a few chardevs should be spliceable here. And a few regular files shouldn't. This patch fixes this by instead checking whether FMODE_LSEEK is set, which represents decently enough what we need rewinding for when splicing to internal pipes. Fixes: b92ce5589374 ("[PATCH] splice: add direct fd <-> fd splicing support") Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'for-5.12/block-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2021-02-21T19:02:48+00:00

Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe: "Another nice round of removing more code than what is added, mostly due to Christoph's relentless pursuit of tech debt removal/cleanups. This pull request contains: - Two series of BFQ improvements (Paolo, Jan, Jia) - Block iov_iter improvements (Pavel) - bsg error path fix (Pan) - blk-mq scheduler improvements (Jan) - -EBUSY discard fix (Jan) - bvec allocation improvements (Ming, Christoph) - bio allocation and init improvements (Christoph) - Store bdev pointer in bio instead of gendisk + partno (Christoph) - Block trace point cleanups (Christoph) - hard read-only vs read-only split (Christoph) - Block based swap cleanups (Christoph) - Zoned write granularity support (Damien) - Various fixes/tweaks (Chunguang, Guoqing, Lei, Lukas, Huhai)" * tag 'for-5.12/block-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (104 commits) mm: simplify swapdev_block sd_zbc: clear zone resources for non-zoned case block: introduce blk_queue_clear_zone_settings() zonefs: use zone write granularity as block size block: introduce zone_write_granularity limit block: use blk_queue_set_zoned in add_partition() nullb: use blk_queue_set_zoned() to setup zoned devices nvme: cleanup zone information initialization block: document zone_append_max_bytes attribute block: use bi_max_vecs to find the bvec pool md/raid10: remove dead code in reshape_request block: mark the bio as cloned in bio_iov_bvec_set block: set BIO_NO_PAGE_REF in bio_iov_bvec_set block: remove a layer of indentation in bio_iov_iter_get_pages block: turn the nr_iovecs argument to bio_alloc* into an unsigned short block: remove the 1 and 4 vec bvec_slabs entries block: streamline bvec_alloc block: factor out a bvec_alloc_gfp helper block: move struct biovec_slab to bio.c block: reuse BIO_INLINE_VECS for integrity bvecs ...

teach sendfile(2) to handle send-to-pipe directly

2021-01-26T04:29:36+00:00

no point going through the intermediate pipe Signed-off-by: Al Viro

take the guts of file-to-pipe splice into a helper function

2021-01-26T04:29:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

do_splice_to(): move the logics for limiting the read length in

2021-01-26T04:28:41+00:00

Both callers have the identical logics limiting the amount of data we try to read into pipe - no more than would fit into that pipe. Move that into do_splice_to() itself. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

splice: don't generate zero-len segement bvecs

2021-01-25T15:58:24+00:00

iter_file_splice_write() may spawn bvec segments with zero-length. In preparation for prohibiting them, filter out by hand at splice level. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov Reviewed-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'io_uring-5.10-2020-10-24' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2020-10-24T19:40:18+00:00

Pull io_uring fixes from Jens Axboe: - fsize was missed in previous unification of work flags - Few fixes cleaning up the flags unification creds cases (Pavel) - Fix NUMA affinities for completely unplugged/replugged node for io-wq - Two fallout fixes from the set_fs changes. One local to io_uring, one for the splice entry point that io_uring uses. - Linked timeout fixes (Pavel) - Removal of ->flush() ->files work-around that we don't need anymore with referenced files (Pavel) - Various cleanups (Pavel) * tag 'io_uring-5.10-2020-10-24' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: splice: change exported internal do_splice() helper to take kernel offset io_uring: make loop_rw_iter() use original user supplied pointers io_uring: remove req cancel in ->flush() io-wq: re-set NUMA node affinities if CPUs come online io_uring: don't reuse linked_timeout io_uring: unify fsize with def->work_flags io_uring: fix racy REQ_F_LINK_TIMEOUT clearing io_uring: do poll's hash_node init in common code io_uring: inline io_poll_task_handler() io_uring: remove extra ->file check in poll prep io_uring: make cached_cq_overflow non atomic_t io_uring: inline io_fail_links() io_uring: kill ref get/drop in personality init io_uring: flags-based creds init in queue