From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>,
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>,
Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@chromium.org>,
Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>,
Luis Lozano <llozano@chromium.org>,
ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] vfs: fix copy_file_range regression in cross-fs copies
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 07:43:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210218074349.GB329605@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210217172654.22519-1-lhenriques@suse.de>
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 05:26:54PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> A regression has been reported by Nicolas Boichat, found while using the
> copy_file_range syscall to copy a tracefs file. Before commit
> 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across devices") the
> kernel would return -EXDEV to userspace when trying to copy a file across
> different filesystems. After this commit, the syscall doesn't fail anymore
> and instead returns zero (zero bytes copied), as this file's content is
> generated on-the-fly and thus reports a size of zero.
>
> This patch restores some cross-filesystems copy restrictions that existed
> prior to commit 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across
> devices"). It also introduces a flag (COPY_FILE_SPLICE) that can be used
> by filesystems calling directly into the vfs copy_file_range to override
> these restrictions. Right now, only NFS needs to set this flag.
No need for the flag. Jyst fall back to splicing in the only caller
that wants it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-18 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 136+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-12 4:43 [PATCH 0/6] Add generated flag to filesystem struct to block copy_file_range Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-12 4:44 ` [PATCH 1/6] fs: Add flag to file_system_type to indicate content is generated Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-12 7:46 ` Greg KH
2021-02-12 8:20 ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-12 8:37 ` Greg KH
2021-02-12 15:33 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2021-02-12 15:45 ` Greg KH
2021-02-12 15:59 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2021-02-12 16:28 ` Greg KH
2021-02-12 20:22 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2021-02-12 23:03 ` Dave Chinner
2021-02-12 23:07 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2021-02-12 23:27 ` Dave Chinner
2021-02-12 23:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-15 0:38 ` Dave Chinner
2021-02-15 1:12 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2021-02-15 1:25 ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-15 5:56 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-15 8:30 ` Greg KH
2021-02-12 8:22 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-12 8:39 ` Greg KH
2021-02-12 12:05 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-12 12:18 ` Greg KH
2021-02-12 12:41 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-12 14:11 ` Greg KH
2021-02-12 15:01 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-15 6:12 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-15 10:39 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-15 12:22 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-15 14:23 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-15 14:51 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-15 15:43 ` [PATCH v2] vfs: prevent copy_file_range to copy across devices Luis Henriques
2021-02-15 16:02 ` Trond Myklebust
2021-02-16 0:25 ` Steve French
2021-02-15 16:34 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-15 16:53 ` Trond Myklebust
2021-02-15 17:24 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-15 18:57 ` Trond Myklebust
2021-02-15 19:43 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-16 11:17 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-16 11:28 ` gregkh
2021-02-16 12:01 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-16 12:08 ` Greg KH
2021-02-16 13:51 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-16 16:42 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-16 17:44 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-16 18:55 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-16 19:20 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-16 19:27 ` Anna Schumaker
2021-02-16 19:31 ` Steve French
2021-02-16 19:40 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-16 21:15 ` Steve French
2021-02-17 8:08 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-17 17:26 ` [PATCH v3] vfs: fix copy_file_range regression in cross-fs copies Luis Henriques
2021-02-17 20:47 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18 0:56 ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-18 5:32 ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-02-18 6:47 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18 16:28 ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-02-18 7:43 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-02-18 0:50 ` [PATCH v2] vfs: prevent copy_file_range to copy across devices Andreas Dilger
2021-02-18 7:34 ` gregkh
2021-02-16 18:54 ` Andreas Dilger
2021-02-17 4:45 ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-18 7:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-18 9:10 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18 10:29 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-18 12:15 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-18 12:49 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18 14:36 ` [PATCH v4] vfs: fix copy_file_range regression in cross-fs copies Luis Henriques
2021-02-18 14:58 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18 15:17 ` [PATCH v5] " Luis Henriques
2021-02-18 15:53 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-18 16:35 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-18 17:18 ` [PATCH v6] " Luis Henriques
2021-02-19 21:18 ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-02-19 21:52 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-21 19:58 ` [PATCH v7] " Luis Henriques
2021-02-22 3:00 ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-22 10:24 ` [PATCH v8] " Luis Henriques
2021-02-22 10:46 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-22 16:25 ` dai.ngo
2021-02-23 10:32 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-23 15:28 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-23 15:29 ` dai.ngo
2021-02-23 16:02 ` dai.ngo
2021-02-23 16:47 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-23 16:57 ` dai.ngo
[not found] ` <e3eed18b-fc7e-e687-608b-7f662017329c@oracle.com>
2021-02-23 17:33 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-24 0:13 ` dai.ngo
2021-02-23 17:56 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-23 17:13 ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-02-24 1:00 ` Olga Kornievskaia
2021-02-24 10:23 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-24 10:44 ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-04-09 5:23 ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-04-09 13:39 ` Luis Henriques
2021-04-09 13:50 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-04-23 4:40 ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-05-03 8:54 ` Luis Henriques
2021-05-10 4:59 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-05-10 9:10 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-24 14:23 ` [PATCH] copy_file_range.2: Kernel v5.12 updates Luis Henriques
2021-02-24 16:10 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-25 10:21 ` Luis Henriques
2021-02-26 10:13 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-26 10:34 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-26 11:15 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-26 13:59 ` Jeff Layton
2021-02-26 21:26 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-26 22:18 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-27 5:41 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-27 12:20 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-02-27 13:49 ` [RFC v2] copy_file_range.2: Update cross-filesystem support for 5.12 Alejandro Colomar
2021-02-27 16:00 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-27 23:08 ` [PATCH] copy_file_range.2: Kernel v5.12 updates Steve French
2021-02-28 7:35 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-28 22:25 ` Steve French
2021-03-01 6:18 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-03-01 14:41 ` [RFC v3] copy_file_range.2: Update cross-filesystem support for 5.12 Alejandro Colomar
2021-03-01 14:58 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-03-04 9:38 ` [RFC v4] " Alejandro Colomar
2021-03-04 17:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-03-04 18:24 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-03-04 23:50 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-24 7:15 ` [PATCH v4] vfs: fix copy_file_range regression in cross-fs copies Amir Goldstein
2021-02-24 8:30 ` Petr Vorel
2021-02-18 20:41 ` [PATCH v2] vfs: prevent copy_file_range to copy across devices Steve French
2021-02-12 23:15 ` [PATCH 1/6] fs: Add flag to file_system_type to indicate content is generated Dave Chinner
2021-02-12 7:54 ` Amir Goldstein
2021-02-12 4:44 ` [PATCH 2/6] proc: Add FS_GENERATED_CONTENT to filesystem flags Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-12 4:44 ` [PATCH 6/6] vfs: Disallow copy_file_range on generated file systems Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-12 4:53 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-12 4:59 ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-02-12 5:24 ` Nicolas Boichat
2021-02-14 23:09 ` [PATCH 0/6] Add generated flag to filesystem struct to block copy_file_range Al Viro
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