Re: [PATCH] nilfs2: make splice write available again

[Ryusuke Konishi]

Hi Andrew,

Please send this to upstream.  This fixes a regression of splice() on nilfs2.

Thanks,
Ryusuke Konishi

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 8:35 PM Ryusuke Konishi
<konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Joachim Henke <joachim.henke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Since 5.10, splice() or sendfile() to NILFS2 return EINVAL. This was
> caused by commit 36e2c7421f02 ("fs: don't allow splice read/write
> without explicit ops").
>
> This patch initializes the splice_write field in file_operations, like
> most file systems do, to restore the functionality.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joachim Henke <joachim.henke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.10+
> ---
>  fs/nilfs2/file.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/file.c b/fs/nilfs2/file.c
> index 64bc81363c6c..e1bd592ce700 100644
> --- a/fs/nilfs2/file.c
> +++ b/fs/nilfs2/file.c
> @@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ static int nilfs_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>         /* .release     = nilfs_release_file, */
>         .fsync          = nilfs_sync_file,
>         .splice_read    = generic_file_splice_read,
> +       .splice_write   = iter_file_splice_write,
>  };
>
>  const struct inode_operations nilfs_file_inode_operations = {
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>