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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>,
	raven@themaw.net, Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
	keyrings@vger.kernel.org, USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 04/14] pipe: Add O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE [ver #2]
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 10:16:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrUka9KaOKFbNKUXcA6XvoFxiXPftctSHtN4DL35Cay61w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <157313375678.29677.15875689548927466028.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>

On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 5:39 AM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Add an O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE flag that can be passed to pipe2() to indicate
> that the pipe being created is going to be used for notifications.  This
> suppresses the use of splice(), vmsplice(), tee() and sendfile() on the
> pipe as calling iov_iter_revert() on a pipe when a kernel notification
> message has been inserted into the middle of a multi-buffer splice will be
> messy.

How messy?  And is there some way to make it impossible for this to
happen?  Adding a new flag to pipe2() to avoid messy kernel code seems
like a poor tradeoff.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-07 18:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-07 13:35 [RFC PATCH 00/14] pipe: Keyrings, Block and USB notifications [ver #2] David Howells
2019-11-07 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH 01/14] uapi: General notification queue definitions " David Howells
2019-11-07 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH 02/14] security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch " David Howells
2019-11-07 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH 03/14] security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion " David Howells
2019-11-07 13:35 ` [RFC PATCH 04/14] pipe: Add O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE " David Howells
2019-11-07 18:16   ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2019-11-07 18:48   ` David Howells
2019-11-08  5:06     ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-08  6:42     ` David Howells
2019-11-07 13:36 ` [RFC PATCH 05/14] pipe: Add general notification queue support " David Howells
2019-11-07 13:36 ` [RFC PATCH 06/14] keys: Add a notification facility " David Howells
2019-11-07 13:36 ` [RFC PATCH 07/14] Add sample notification program " David Howells
2019-11-07 13:36 ` [RFC PATCH 08/14] pipe: Allow buffers to be marked read-whole-or-error for notifications " David Howells
2019-11-07 18:15   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-11-07 18:23   ` David Howells
2019-11-07 13:36 ` [RFC PATCH 09/14] pipe: Add notification lossage handling " David Howells
2019-11-07 13:36 ` [RFC PATCH 10/14] Add a general, global device notification watch list " David Howells
2019-11-07 13:37 ` [RFC PATCH 11/14] block: Add block layer notifications " David Howells
2019-11-07 13:37 ` [RFC PATCH 12/14] usb: Add USB subsystem " David Howells
2019-11-07 13:37 ` [RFC PATCH 13/14] selinux: Implement the watch_key security hook " David Howells
2019-11-07 13:37 ` [RFC PATCH 14/14] smack: Implement the watch_key and post_notification hooks " David Howells
2019-11-07 17:16 ` [RFC PATCH 05/14] pipe: Add general notification queue support " David Howells

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