[PATCH v3 03/55] net: Declare MSG_SPLICE_PAGES internal sendmsg() flag

[David Howells]

Declare MSG_SPLICE_PAGES, an internal sendmsg() flag, that hints to a
network protocol that it should splice pages from the source iterator
rather than copying the data if it can.  This flag is added to a list that
is cleared by sendmsg and recvmsg syscalls on entry.

This is intended as a replacement for the ->sendpage() op, allowing a way
to splice in several multipage folios in one go.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 include/linux/socket.h | 3 +++
 net/socket.c           | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h
index 13c3a237b9c9..bd1cc3238851 100644
--- a/include/linux/socket.h
+++ b/include/linux/socket.h
@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ struct ucred {
 					  */
 
 #define MSG_ZEROCOPY	0x4000000	/* Use user data in kernel path */
+#define MSG_SPLICE_PAGES 0x8000000	/* Splice the pages from the iterator in sendmsg() */
 #define MSG_FASTOPEN	0x20000000	/* Send data in TCP SYN */
 #define MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC 0x40000000	/* Set close_on_exec for file
 					   descriptor received through
@@ -337,6 +338,8 @@ struct ucred {
 #define MSG_CMSG_COMPAT	0		/* We never have 32 bit fixups */
 #endif
 
+/* Flags to be cleared on entry by sendmsg and sendmmsg syscalls */
+#define MSG_INTERNAL_SENDMSG_FLAGS (MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
 
 /* Setsockoptions(2) level. Thanks to BSD these must match IPPROTO_xxx */
 #define SOL_IP		0
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 6bae8ce7059e..0c39ce57d603 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -2139,6 +2139,7 @@ int __sys_sendto(int fd, void __user *buff, size_t len, unsigned int flags,
 		msg.msg_name = (struct sockaddr *)&address;
 		msg.msg_namelen = addr_len;
 	}
+	flags &= ~MSG_INTERNAL_SENDMSG_FLAGS;
 	if (sock->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
 		flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT;
 	msg.msg_flags = flags;
@@ -2486,6 +2487,7 @@ static int ____sys_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg_sys,
 	}
 	msg_sys->msg_flags = flags;
 
+	flags &= ~MSG_INTERNAL_SENDMSG_FLAGS;
 	if (sock->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
 		msg_sys->msg_flags |= MSG_DONTWAIT;
 	/*