APPLIED: [PATCH][SRU][HRISUTE] UBUNTU: SAUCE: shiftfs: fix sendfile() invocations

Christian Brauner christian.brauner at ubuntu.com
Wed Aug 11 14:01:28 UTC 2021


On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 03:45:52PM +0200, Kleber Souza wrote:
> On 09.08.21 17:14, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1939301
> > 
> > Upstream commit 36e2c7421f02 ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops")
> > caused a regression for us. It states:
> > 
> > > default_file_splice_write is the last piece of generic code that uses
> > > set_fs to make the uaccess routines operate on kernel pointers.  It
> > > implements a "fallback loop" for splicing from files that do not actually
> > > provide a proper splice_read method.  The usual file systems and other
> > > high bandwidth instances all provide a ->splice_read, so this just removes
> > > support for various device drivers and procfs/debugfs files.  If splice
> > > support for any of those turns out to be important it can be added back
> > > by switching them to the iter ops and using generic_file_splice_read.
> > 
> > this means that currently all workloads making use of sendfile() on
> > shiftfs fail. This includes LXD, Anbox and a range of others. Fix this
> > by providing explicit .splice_read() and .splice_write() methods which
> > jus restores the status quo and we keep using a generic method provided
> > by the vfs.
> > 
> > Cc: Seth Forshee <sforshee at kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner at ubuntu.com>
> > ---
> >   fs/shiftfs.c | 2 ++
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/shiftfs.c b/fs/shiftfs.c
> > index abeb7db3b9be..f5f6d8d8144e 100644
> > --- a/fs/shiftfs.c
> > +++ b/fs/shiftfs.c
> > @@ -1737,6 +1737,8 @@ const struct file_operations shiftfs_file_operations = {
> >   	.compat_ioctl		= shiftfs_compat_ioctl,
> >   	.copy_file_range	= shiftfs_copy_file_range,
> >   	.remap_file_range	= shiftfs_remap_file_range,
> > +	.splice_read		= generic_file_splice_read,
> > +	.splice_write		= iter_file_splice_write,
> >   };
> >   const struct file_operations shiftfs_dir_operations = {
> > 
> > base-commit: 7b737a8f4500b183bbaffd28a879a6d344ab4741
> > 
> 
> Applied to hirsute:linux.

Thank you!
Christian



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