Re: [PATCH v22 00/31] splice: Kill ITER_PIPE

[Jens Axboe]

On Mon, 22 May 2023 14:49:47 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> I've split off splice patchset and moved the block patches to a separate
> branch (though they are dependent on this one).
> 
> This patchset kills off ITER_PIPE to avoid a race between truncate,
> iov_iter_revert() on the pipe and an as-yet incomplete DMA to a bio with
> unpinned/unref'ed pages from an O_DIRECT splice read.  This causes memory
> corruption[2].  Instead, we use filemap_splice_read(), which invokes the
> buffered file reading code and splices from the pagecache into the pipe;
> copy_splice_read(), which bulk-allocates a buffer, reads into it and then
> pushes the filled pages into the pipe; or handle it in filesystem-specific
> code.
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[01/31] splice: Fix filemap_splice_read() to use the correct inode
        commit: 5c1a3db1ad679a504d31f8d7520b8d143cff4a81
[02/31] splice: Make filemap_splice_read() check s_maxbytes
        commit: f4d4a116512e2184461016bd5a4f1b5c659ab52c
[03/31] splice: Rename direct_splice_read() to copy_splice_read()
        commit: 49bfda41ae98a5b55a4638a085202e92c2d82bb3
[04/31] splice: Clean up copy_splice_read() a bit
        commit: 005ccb384566faf30cf9a45b624944d29917a9bb
[05/31] splice: Make do_splice_to() generic and export it
        commit: d4e52f54da56fb95a0fb9c55a2fedca009ba27b2
[06/31] splice: Check for zero count in vfs_splice_read()
        commit: 1c619a3aa1b5432e9c8451d27f92682557f6e995
[07/31] splice: Make splice from an O_DIRECT fd use copy_splice_read()
        commit: 27c3a9bd19a862b051d0249c1434c27b532064fb
[08/31] splice: Make splice from a DAX file use copy_splice_read()
        commit: 1e9022b9b150fe37293e78b6a4d1ef3b6cccf4c0
[09/31] shmem: Implement splice-read
        commit: 680cf0d89c54866599dad4144b35b3b9b38da036
[10/31] overlayfs: Implement splice-read
        commit: b9c516b37fc7cc930882b59713264e16d13dc195
[11/31] coda: Implement splice-read
        commit: e0187fb3198e0822afb6d95efb64825493d831df
[12/31] tty, proc, kernfs, random: Use copy_splice_read()
        commit: 703670cb841af4c3499db72e79f70d1afd27aa24
[13/31] net: Make sock_splice_read() use copy_splice_read() by default
        commit: 7e678ad3bda2c466ff5cb074a60069e341736196
[14/31] 9p: Add splice_read wrapper
        commit: 23f9131befc8292677cd83aff12b4362c6d2b0ff
[15/31] afs: Provide a splice-read wrapper
        commit: 1210eadcfd9cc1e9c0b23c6c55c85ff1106eae63
[16/31] ceph: Provide a splice-read wrapper
        commit: ecca566b1bc58e7ba3cd0ac745a1f4567a5dd6b7
[17/31] ecryptfs: Provide a splice-read wrapper
        commit: a8b8d669b744bcf965fd2b46ddfa4c94cd8a1d3a
[18/31] ext4: Provide a splice-read wrapper
        commit: 22d3afaa35b8dfe3dedd5c1eba7c68cd1001f8a3
[19/31] f2fs: Provide a splice-read wrapper
        commit: 10f3bb0832bccf47808bdd1517bc32f2241009f0
[20/31] nfs: Provide a splice-read wrapper
        commit: 51bea4c9f43e367166ad799e0a338fef8b7d360e
[21/31] ntfs3: Provide a splice-read wrapper
        commit: e0f80cb19e7d8a5b7d0891ae4079e9cd08ce1a21
[22/31] ocfs2: Provide a splice-read wrapper
        commit: dbf9b0577f7b08a46c769a0c5cbc497e9b48d238
[23/31] orangefs: Provide a splice-read wrapper
        commit: ec1498f4199e4b276ed9a897126873dba663f1fb
[24/31] xfs: Provide a splice-read wrapper
        commit: eba8fd3970721ee4059e509b5f1db512de8486cc
[25/31] zonefs: Provide a splice-read wrapper
        commit: a73aa694dae34eba02296ecba7a2b815ed492f25
[26/31] trace: Convert trace/seq to use copy_splice_read()
        commit: 580fc3965524b2dbd0472d52392a4d78e2e865a7
[27/31] cifs: Use filemap_splice_read()
        commit: 641403a99879bb4f08698d8bb1ac1dfa752c8dd8
[28/31] splice: Use filemap_splice_read() instead of generic_file_splice_read()
        commit: 69d1253f516798fbce0a6d2b693112cc02cb46a4
[29/31] splice: Remove generic_file_splice_read()
        commit: 0e67da77774ad90fd4a28d5f852687e7562882b8
[30/31] iov_iter: Kill ITER_PIPE
        commit: 6569c1d1c210d15ac0c402aeaada217f3b197737
[31/31] splice: kdoc for filemap_splice_read() and copy_splice_read()
        commit: 4e240fcf3a7572c1743b24b4d7e1aeec4a8f56b7

Best regards,
-- 
Jens Axboe