Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] shmem, overlayfs, coda, tty, proc, kernfs, random: Fix splice-read

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 08:37:10AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> The new filemap_splice_read() has an implicit expectation via
> filemap_get_pages() that ->read_folio() exists if ->readahead() doesn't
> fully populate the pagecache of the file it is reading from[1], potentially
> leading to a jump to NULL if this doesn't exist.
> 
> A filesystem or driver shouldn't suffer from this if:
> 
>   - It doesn't set ->splice_read()
>   - It implements ->read_folio()
>   - It implements its own ->splice_read()
> 
> Note that some filesystems set generic_file_splice_read() and
> generic_file_read_iter() but don't set ->read_folio().  g_f_read_iter()
> will fall back to filemap_read_iter() which looks like it should suffer
> from the same issue.
> 
> Certain drivers, can just use direct_splice_read() rather than
> generic_file_splice_read() as that creates an output buffer and then just
> calls their ->read_iter() function:
> 
>   - random & urandom
>   - tty
>   - kernfs
>   - proc
>   - proc_namespace
> 
> Stacked filesystems just need to pass the operation down a layer:
> 
>   - coda
>   - overlayfs
> 
> And finally, there's shmem (used in tmpfs, ramfs, rootfs).  This needs its
> own splice-read implementation, based on filemap_splice_read(), but able to
> paste in zero_page when there's a page missing.
> 
> Fixes: d9722a475711 ("splice: Do splice read from a buffered file without using ITER_PIPE")
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> cc: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
> cc: Guenter Roeck <groeck7@gmail.com>
> cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
> cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
> cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> cc: coda@cs.cmu.edu
> cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
> cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y+pdHFFTk1TTEBsO@makrotopia.org/ [1]
> ---

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>