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 <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
cc: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
cc: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
cc: [email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAJfpeguGksS3sCigmRi9hJdUec8qtM9f+_9jC1rJhsXT+dV01w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

Author: dhowells

fs/splice.c

@@ -867,12 +867,24 @@ static long do_splice_from(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
 	return out->f_op->splice_write(pipe, out, ppos, len, flags);
 }
 
-/*
- * Attempt to initiate a splice from a file to a pipe.
+/**
+ * vfs_splice_read - Read data from a file and splice it into a pipe
+ * @in:		File to splice from
+ * @ppos:	Input file offset
+ * @pipe:	Pipe to splice to
+ * @len:	Number of bytes to splice
+ * @flags:	Splice modifier flags (SPLICE_F_*)
+ *
+ * Splice the requested amount of data from the input file to the pipe.  This
+ * is synchronous as the caller must hold the pipe lock across the entire
+ * operation.
+ *
+ * If successful, it returns the amount of data spliced, 0 if it hit the EOF or
+ * a hole and a negative error code otherwise.
  */
-static long do_splice_to(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
-			 struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, size_t len,
-			 unsigned int flags)
+long vfs_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
+		     struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, size_t len,
+		     unsigned int flags)
 {
 	unsigned int p_space;
 	int ret;
@@ -895,6 +907,7 @@ static long do_splice_to(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
 		return warn_unsupported(in, "read");
 	return in->f_op->splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_splice_read);
 
 /**
  * splice_direct_to_actor - splices data directly between two non-pipes
@@ -964,7 +977,7 @@ ssize_t splice_direct_to_actor(struct file *in, struct splice_desc *sd,
 		size_t read_len;
 		loff_t pos = sd->pos, prev_pos = pos;
 
-		ret = do_splice_to(in, &pos, pipe, len, flags);
+		ret = vfs_splice_read(in, &pos, pipe, len, flags);
 		if (unlikely(ret <= 0))
 			goto out_release;
 
@@ -1112,7 +1125,7 @@ long splice_file_to_pipe(struct file *in,
 	pipe_lock(opipe);
 	ret = wait_for_space(opipe, flags);
 	if (!ret)
-		ret = do_splice_to(in, offset, opipe, len, flags);
+		ret = vfs_splice_read(in, offset, opipe, len, flags);
 	pipe_unlock(opipe);
 	if (ret > 0)
 		wakeup_pipe_readers(opipe);

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,