[RFC PATCH 01/37] ntfs_copy_from_user_iter(): don't bother with copying iov_iter

[Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>]

Advance the original, let the caller revert if it needs to.
Don't mess with iov_iter_single_seg_count() in the caller -
if we got a (non-zero) short copy, use the amount actually
copied for the next pass, limit it to "up to the end
of page" if nothing got copied at all.

Originally fault-in only read the first iovec; back then it used
to make sense to limit to the just one iovec for the pass after
short copy.  These days it's no long true.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
 fs/ntfs/file.c | 33 +++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/file.c b/fs/ntfs/file.c
index e5aab265dff1..0666d4578137 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/file.c
@@ -1684,20 +1684,19 @@ static size_t ntfs_copy_from_user_iter(struct page **pages, unsigned nr_pages,
 {
 	struct page **last_page = pages + nr_pages;
 	size_t total = 0;
-	struct iov_iter data = *i;
 	unsigned len, copied;
 
 	do {
 		len = PAGE_SIZE - ofs;
 		if (len > bytes)
 			len = bytes;
-		copied = iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(*pages, &data, ofs,
+		copied = iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic(*pages, i, ofs,
 				len);
+		iov_iter_advance(i, copied);
 		total += copied;
 		bytes -= copied;
 		if (!bytes)
 			break;
-		iov_iter_advance(&data, copied);
 		if (copied < len)
 			goto err;
 		ofs = 0;
@@ -1866,34 +1865,24 @@ static ssize_t ntfs_perform_write(struct file *file, struct iov_iter *i,
 		if (likely(copied == bytes)) {
 			status = ntfs_commit_pages_after_write(pages, do_pages,
 					pos, bytes);
-			if (!status)
-				status = bytes;
 		}
 		do {
 			unlock_page(pages[--do_pages]);
 			put_page(pages[do_pages]);
 		} while (do_pages);
-		if (unlikely(status < 0))
+		if (unlikely(status < 0)) {
+			iov_iter_revert(i, copied);
 			break;
-		copied = status;
+		}
 		cond_resched();
-		if (unlikely(!copied)) {
-			size_t sc;
-
-			/*
-			 * We failed to copy anything.  Fall back to single
-			 * segment length write.
-			 *
-			 * This is needed to avoid possible livelock in the
-			 * case that all segments in the iov cannot be copied
-			 * at once without a pagefault.
-			 */
-			sc = iov_iter_single_seg_count(i);
-			if (bytes > sc)
-				bytes = sc;
+		if (unlikely(copied < bytes)) {
+			iov_iter_revert(i, copied);
+			if (copied)
+				bytes = copied;
+			else if (bytes > PAGE_SIZE - ofs)
+				bytes = PAGE_SIZE - ofs;
 			goto again;
 		}
-		iov_iter_advance(i, copied);
 		pos += copied;
 		written += copied;
 		balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
-- 
2.11.0