linux-kernel - Re: sendfile from 9p fs into af

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Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:53:01 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Subject: Re: sendfile from 9p fs into af_alg

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:58:11AM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

> if I read it correctly 9p actually responded with 8192 bytes of requests...
> whereas the file size was 9624.
> For large file sizes (in megabytes) the difference between what
> sendfile is reporting and actual file size can be 3x.
> In the small file case (like above dump) it looks rounded to page size for some reason.

OK, I think I see one bug in there; could you check if this gets it back to
normal?

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index dcaf185..5a7750b 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -408,7 +408,8 @@ static ssize_t default_file_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
 	if (res <= 0)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	nr_pages = res / PAGE_SIZE;
+	BUG_ON(dummy);
+	nr_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(res, PAGE_SIZE);
 
 	vec = __vec;
 	if (nr_pages > PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS) {