[RFC PATCH 2/3] fs/splice: Atomically read pipe->{head,tail} in opipe_prep()

[K Prateek Nayak]

opipe_prep() checks pipe_full() before taking the "pipe->mutex". Use the
newly introduced "pipe->head_tail" member to read the head and the tail
atomically and not miss any updates between the reads.

Signed-off-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/splice.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index 28cfa63aa236..e51f33aca032 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1682,13 +1682,14 @@ static int ipipe_prep(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, unsigned int flags)
  */
 static int opipe_prep(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, unsigned int flags)
 {
+	union pipe_index idx = { .head_tail = READ_ONCE(pipe->head_tail) };
 	int ret;
 
 	/*
 	 * Check pipe occupancy without the inode lock first. This function
 	 * is speculative anyways, so missing one is ok.
 	 */
-	if (!pipe_full(pipe->head, pipe->tail, pipe->max_usage))
+	if (!pipe_full(idx.head, idx.tail, READ_ONCE(pipe->max_usage)))
 		return 0;
 
 	ret = 0;
-- 
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