linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 08/13] cifs: Add a function to read into an iter from a socket

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Message-ID: <2862713.1674747841@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:44:01 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@...il.com>,
        Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@...il.com>,
        "Tom Talpey" <tom@...pey.com>, Stefan Metzmacher <metze@...ba.org>,
        "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "Jeff Layton" <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        "linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 08/13] cifs: Add a function to read into an iter from a socket

David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM> wrote:

> On the face of it that passes a largely uninitialised 'struct msghdr'
> to cifs_readv_from_socket() in order to pass an iov_iter.
> That seems to be asking for trouble.
> 
> If cifs_readv_from_socket() only needs the iov_iter then wouldn't
> it be better to do the wrapper the other way around?
> (Probably as an inline function)
> Something like:
> 
> int
> cifs_readv_from_socket(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct msghdr *smb_msg)
> {
> 	return cifs_read_iter_from_socket(server, &smb_msg->msg_iter, smb_msg->msg_iter.count);
> }
> 
> and then changing cifs_readv_from_socket() to just use the iov_iter.

Yeah.  And smbd_recv() only cares about the iterator too.

> I'm also not 100% sure that taking a copy of an iov_iter is a good idea.

It shouldn't matter as the only problematic iterator is ITER_PIPE (advancing
that has side effects) - and splice_read is handled specially by patch 4.  The
problem with splice_read with the way cifs works is that it likes to subdivide
its read/write requests across multiple reqs and then subsubdivide them if
certain types of failure occur.  But you can't do that with ITER_PIPE.

I build an ITER_BVEC from ITER_PIPE, ITER_UBUF and ITER_IOVEC in the top
levels with pins inserted as appropriate and hand the ITER_BVEC down.  For
user-backed iterators it has to be done this way because the I/O may get
shuffled off to a different thread.

Reqs can then just copy the BVEC/XARRAY/KVEC and narrow the region because the
master request at the top does holds the vector list and the top cifs level or
the caller above the vfs (eg. sys_execve) does what is necessary to retain the
pages.

David