[PATCH v4 1/2] readdir: split the core of getdents64(2) out into vfs_getdents()

[PATCH v4 1/2] readdir: split the core of getdents64(2) out into vfs_getdents()

[Lennert Buytenhek]

So that IORING_OP_GETDENTS may use it, split out the core of the
getdents64(2) syscall into a helper function, vfs_getdents().

vfs_getdents() calls into filesystems' ->iterate{,_shared}() which
expect serialization on struct file, which means that callers of
vfs_getdents() are responsible for either using fdget_pos() or
performing the equivalent serialization by hand.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
---
 fs/readdir.c       | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
 include/linux/fs.h |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/readdir.c b/fs/readdir.c
index 19434b3c982c..f52167c1eb61 100644
--- a/fs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/readdir.c
@@ -348,10 +348,9 @@ static int filldir64(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int namlen,
 	return -EFAULT;
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getdents64, unsigned int, fd,
-		struct linux_dirent64 __user *, dirent, unsigned int, count)
+int vfs_getdents(struct file *file, struct linux_dirent64 __user *dirent,
+		 unsigned int count)
 {
-	struct fd f;
 	struct getdents_callback64 buf = {
 		.ctx.actor = filldir64,
 		.count = count,
@@ -359,11 +358,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getdents64, unsigned int, fd,
 	};
 	int error;
 
-	f = fdget_pos(fd);
-	if (!f.file)
-		return -EBADF;
-
-	error = iterate_dir(f.file, &buf.ctx);
+	error = iterate_dir(file, &buf.ctx);
 	if (error >= 0)
 		error = buf.error;
 	if (buf.prev_reclen) {
@@ -376,6 +371,20 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getdents64, unsigned int, fd,
 		else
 			error = count - buf.count;
 	}
+	return error;
+}
+
+SYSCALL_DEFINE3(getdents64, unsigned int, fd,
+		struct linux_dirent64 __user *, dirent, unsigned int, count)
+{
+	struct fd f;
+	int error;
+
+	f = fdget_pos(fd);
+	if (!f.file)
+		return -EBADF;
+
+	error = vfs_getdents(f.file, dirent, count);
 	fdput_pos(f);
 	return error;
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index ec8f3ddf4a6a..c03235883e18 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -3227,6 +3227,10 @@ extern const struct inode_operations simple_symlink_inode_operations;
 
 extern int iterate_dir(struct file *, struct dir_context *);
 
+struct linux_dirent64;
+int vfs_getdents(struct file *file, struct linux_dirent64 __user *dirent,
+		 unsigned int count);
+
 int vfs_fstatat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, struct kstat *stat,
 		int flags);
 int vfs_fstat(int fd, struct kstat *stat);
-- 
2.29.2

Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] readdir: split the core of getdents64(2) out into vfs_getdents()

[Jens Axboe]

On 3/12/21 8:49 AM, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> So that IORING_OP_GETDENTS may use it, split out the core of the
> getdents64(2) syscall into a helper function, vfs_getdents().
> 
> vfs_getdents() calls into filesystems' ->iterate{,_shared}() which
> expect serialization on struct file, which means that callers of
> vfs_getdents() are responsible for either using fdget_pos() or
> performing the equivalent serialization by hand.

Al, how do you feel about this one?

-- 
Jens Axboe