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| author | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2023-05-22 14:49:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2023-05-24 08:42:16 -0600 |
| commit | 6a3f30b8bdb23842aff5eea65b6a7693c49f5506 (patch) | |
| tree | 31411886ee54c28085214fe62032f6b034e4af48 /include | |
| parent | e69f37bce1b412161e11715adde30dadba0268a2 (diff) | |
splice: Make do_splice_to() generic and export it
Rename do_splice_to() to vfs_splice_read() and export it so that it can be
used as a helper when calling down to a lower layer filesystem as it
performs all the necessary checks[1].
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
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: 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/CAJfpeguGksS3sCigmRi9hJdUec8qtM9f+_9jC1rJhsXT+dV01w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522135018.2742245-6-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/splice.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/splice.h b/include/linux/splice.h index a55179fd60fc..8f052c3dae95 100644 --- a/include/linux/splice.h +++ b/include/linux/splice.h @@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ extern ssize_t splice_to_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct splice_pipe_desc *); extern ssize_t add_to_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *, struct pipe_buffer *); +long vfs_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos, + struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, size_t len, + unsigned int flags); extern ssize_t splice_direct_to_actor(struct file *, struct splice_desc *, splice_direct_actor *); extern long do_splice(struct file *in, loff_t *off_in, |