[PATCH] splice: allow direct splicing with chardevs

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH] splice: allow direct splicing with chardevs
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 11:57:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220520095747.123748-1-Jason@zx2c4.com> (raw)

The original direct splicing mechanism from Jens required the input to
be a regular file because it was avoiding the special socket case. It
also recognized blkdevs as being close enough to a regular file. But it
forgot about chardevs, which behave the same way and work fine here.

This commit adds the missing S_ISCHR condition so that chardevs such as
/dev/urandom can be directly spliced without strangely returning
-EINVAL.

Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fixes: b92ce5589374 ("[PATCH] splice: add direct fd <-> fd splicing support")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---
 fs/splice.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 047b79db8eb5..7e673b1786fb 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ ssize_t splice_direct_to_actor(struct file *in, struct splice_desc *sd,
 	 * piped splicing for that!
 	 */
 	i_mode = file_inode(in)->i_mode;
-	if (unlikely(!S_ISREG(i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(i_mode)))
+	if (unlikely(!S_ISREG(i_mode) && !S_ISBLK(i_mode) && !S_ISCHR(i_mode)))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	/*
-- 
2.35.1

