Re: [PATCH v5] vfs: fix copy_file_range regression in cross-fs copies

[Luis Henriques]

Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 5:16 PM Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx> 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-filesystem copy restrictions that existed
>> prior to commit 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across
>> devices").  Filesystems are still allowed to fall-back to the VFS
>> generic_copy_file_range() implementation, but that has now to be done
>> explicitly.
>>
>> nfsd is also modified to fall-back into generic_copy_file_range() in case
>> vfs_copy_file_range() fails with -EOPNOTSUPP or -EXDEV.
>>
>> Fixes: 5dae222a5ff0 ("vfs: allow copy_file_range to copy across devices")
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210212044405.4120619-1-drinkcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CANMq1KDZuxir2LM5jOTm0xx+BnvW=ZmpsG47CyHFJwnw7zSX6Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210126135012.1.If45b7cdc3ff707bc1efa17f5366057d60603c45f@changeid/
>> Reported-by: Nicolas Boichat <drinkcat@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> And v5!  Sorry.  Sure, it makes sense to go through the all the vfs_cfr()
>> checks first.
>
> You missed my other comment on v4...
>
> not checking NULL copy_file_range case.

Ah, yeah I did missed it.  I'll follow up with yet another revision.

Cheers,
-- 
Luis