linux-kernel - Re: iov_iter

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Date:   Mon, 11 Sep 2017 00:15:19 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:     Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: iov_iter_pipe warning.

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 12:07:23AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:

> BTW, another problem I see there is that iomap_dio_actor() should *NOT*
> assume that do-while loop in there will always manage to shove 'length'
> bytes out in case of success.  That is simply not true for pipe-backed
> destination.  And I'm not sure if outright failures halfway through
> are handled correctly.  What does it need a copy of dio->submit.iter for,
> anyway?  Why not work with dio->submit.iter directly?

I mean, if it's just a matter of iov_iter_truncate() to be undone in
the end, that's not hard to do - iov_iter_reexpand() is there.  Or is there
something more subtle in the play?