4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ Upstream commit ee5e001196d1345b8fee25925ff5f1d67936081e ]
The current implementation of splice() and tee() ignores O_NONBLOCK set on pipe file descriptors and checks only the SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK flag for blocking on pipe arguments. This is inconsistent since splice()-ing from/to non-pipe file descriptors does take O_NONBLOCK into consideration.
Fix this by promoting O_NONBLOCK, when set on a pipe, to SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK.
Some context for how the current implementation of splice() leads to inconsistent behavior. In the ongoing work[1] to add VM tracing capability to trace-cmd we stream tracing data over named FIFOs or vsockets from guests back to the host.
When we receive SIGINT from user to stop tracing, we set O_NONBLOCK on the input file descriptor and set SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK for the next call to splice(). If splice() was blocked waiting on data from the input FIFO, after SIGINT splice() restarts with the same arguments (no SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK) and blocks again instead of returning -EAGAIN when no data is available.
This differs from the splice() behavior when reading from a vsocket or when we're doing a traditional read()/write() loop (trace-cmd's --nosplice argument).
With this patch applied we get the same behavior in all situations after setting O_NONBLOCK which also matches the behavior of doing a read()/write() loop instead of splice().
This change does have potential of breaking users who don't expect EAGAIN from splice() when SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK is not set. OTOH programs that set O_NONBLOCK and don't anticipate EAGAIN are arguably buggy[2].
[1] https://github.com/skaslev/trace-cmd/tree/vsock [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/d47e3da1759230e394096fd742aad423c291b...
Signed-off-by: Slavomir Kaslev kaslevs@vmware.com Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/splice.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c index 01983bea760c..3f9e7a724d85 100644 --- a/fs/splice.c +++ b/fs/splice.c @@ -1137,6 +1137,9 @@ static long do_splice(struct file *in, loff_t __user *off_in, if (ipipe == opipe) return -EINVAL;
+ if ((in->f_flags | out->f_flags) & O_NONBLOCK) + flags |= SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK; + return splice_pipe_to_pipe(ipipe, opipe, len, flags); }
@@ -1162,6 +1165,9 @@ static long do_splice(struct file *in, loff_t __user *off_in, if (unlikely(ret < 0)) return ret;
+ if (in->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) + flags |= SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK; + file_start_write(out); ret = do_splice_from(ipipe, out, &offset, len, flags); file_end_write(out); @@ -1186,6 +1192,9 @@ static long do_splice(struct file *in, loff_t __user *off_in, offset = in->f_pos; }
+ if (out->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) + flags |= SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK; + pipe_lock(opipe); ret = wait_for_space(opipe, flags); if (!ret) @@ -1718,6 +1727,9 @@ static long do_tee(struct file *in, struct file *out, size_t len, * copying the data. */ if (ipipe && opipe && ipipe != opipe) { + if ((in->f_flags | out->f_flags) & O_NONBLOCK) + flags |= SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK; + /* * Keep going, unless we encounter an error. The ipipe/opipe * ordering doesn't really matter.