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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	x86@kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:29:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3088368.1603790984@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200827150030.282762-3-hch@lst.de>

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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?

David


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-27  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-27 15:00 remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 01/10] fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:58   ` David Laight
2020-08-29  9:23     ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
     [not found]   ` <20200901064849.GI4299@shao2-debian>
2020-09-01  7:08     ` [fs] ef30fb3c60: kernel write not supported for file /sys/kernel/softlockup_panic Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 02/10] fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 03/10] uaccess: add infrastructure for kernel builds with set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 04/10] test_bitmap: skip user bitmap tests for !CONFIG_SET_FS Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 05/10] lkdtm: disable set_fs-based " Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 18:06   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-29  9:24     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 18:52       ` Kees Cook
2020-09-01 18:57       ` Kees Cook
2020-09-02  8:09         ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 06/10] x86: move PAGE_OFFSET, TASK_SIZE & friends to page_{32,64}_types.h Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 07/10] x86: make TASK_SIZE_MAX usable from assembly code Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 08/10] x86: remove address space overrides using set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 18:15   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-29  9:25     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 09/10] powerpc: use non-set_fs based maccess routines Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-27 15:00 ` [PATCH 10/10] powerpc: remove address space overrides using set_fs() Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-02  6:15   ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02 12:36     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-02 13:13       ` David Laight
2020-09-02 13:24         ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02 13:51           ` David Laight
2020-09-02 14:12             ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02 15:02               ` David Laight
2020-09-02 15:17       ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02 18:02         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-03  7:11           ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-03  7:27             ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03  8:55             ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-03  7:20           ` Christophe Leroy
2020-08-27 15:31 ` remove the last set_fs() in common code, and remove it for x86 and powerpc v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 17:13 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-01 17:25   ` Al Viro
2020-09-01 17:42     ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-01 18:39     ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-01 19:01     ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02  8:10     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-27  9:29 ` David Howells [this message]
2020-10-27  9:51 ` [PATCH 02/10] fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops David Howells
2020-10-27  9:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-10-27 10:38   ` David Howells

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