Re: [PATCH] jffs2: Hook up splice_write callback

[Lei YU]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:45 PM Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> overlayfs using jffs2 as the upper filesystem would fail in some cases
> since moving to v5.10. The test case used was to run 'touch' on a file
> that exists in the lower fs, causing the modification time to be
> updated. It returns EINVAL when the bug is triggered.
>
> A bisection showed this was introduced in v5.9-rc1, with commit
> 36e2c7421f02 ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops").
> Reverting that commit restores the expected behaviour.
>
> Some digging showed that this was due to jffs2 lacking an implementation
> of splice_write. (For unknown reasons the warn_unsupported that should
> trigger was not displaying any output).
>
> Adding this patch resolved the issue and the test now passes.
>
> Fixes: 36e2c7421f02 ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops")
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/jffs2/file.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/jffs2/file.c b/fs/jffs2/file.c
> index f8fb89b10227..4fc8cd698d1a 100644
> --- a/fs/jffs2/file.c
> +++ b/fs/jffs2/file.c
> @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ const struct file_operations jffs2_file_operations =
>         .mmap =         generic_file_readonly_mmap,
>         .fsync =        jffs2_fsync,
>         .splice_read =  generic_file_splice_read,
> +       .splice_write = iter_file_splice_write,
>  };
>
>  /* jffs2_file_inode_operations */
> --
> 2.30.2
>

Verified on g220a openbmc system that the patch fixes the issue.

Tested-by: Lei YU <yulei.sh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>