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authorLorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>2023-03-22 18:57:03 +0000
committerAndrew Morton <[email protected]>2023-04-05 19:42:57 -0700
commit4f80818b4a58c9458dce0df7cce9abe107da445e (patch)
tree88417b4d8dc65dfdc8c4a62bcd04dd909b8dadb9 /include/linux
parent46c0d6d0904a10785faabee53fe53ee1aa718fea (diff)
iov_iter: add copy_page_to_iter_nofault()
Provide a means to copy a page to user space from an iterator, aborting if a page fault would occur. This supports compound pages, but may be passed a tail page with an offset extending further into the compound page, so we cannot pass a folio. This allows for this function to be called from atomic context and _try_ to user pages if they are faulted in, aborting if not. The function does not use _copy_to_iter() in order to not specify might_fault(), this is similar to copy_page_from_iter_atomic(). This is being added in order that an iteratable form of vread() can be implemented while holding spinlocks. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/19734729defb0f498a76bdec1bef3ac48a3af3e8.1679511146.git.lstoakes@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]> Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Liu Shixin <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <[email protected]> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/uio.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 27e3fd942960..29eb18bb6feb 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ static inline size_t copy_folio_to_iter(struct folio *folio, size_t offset,
{
return copy_page_to_iter(&folio->page, offset, bytes, i);
}
+size_t copy_page_to_iter_nofault(struct page *page, unsigned offset,
+ size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i);
static __always_inline __must_check
size_t copy_to_iter(const void *addr, size_t bytes, struct iov_iter *i)