@@ -733,6 +733,10 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,
if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
f->f_mode |= FMODE_ATOMIC_POS;
+ if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
+ f->f_mode |= FMODE_SPLICE_WRITE | FMODE_SPLICE_READ;
+
+
f->f_op = fops_get(inode->i_fop);
if (unlikely(WARN_ON(!f->f_op))) {
error = -ENODEV;
@@ -396,6 +396,9 @@ static ssize_t default_file_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
if (pipe->nrbufs == pipe->buffers)
return -EAGAIN;
+ if (unlikely(!(in->f_mode & FMODE_SPLICE_READ)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/*
* Try to keep page boundaries matching to source pagecache ones -
* it probably won't be much help, but...
@@ -824,6 +827,9 @@ static ssize_t default_file_splice_write(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
{
ssize_t ret;
+ if (unlikely(!(out->f_mode & FMODE_SPLICE_WRITE)))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
ret = splice_from_pipe(pipe, out, ppos, len, flags, write_pipe_buf);
if (ret > 0)
*ppos += ret;
@@ -143,6 +143,11 @@ typedef int (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset,
/* File was opened by fanotify and shouldn't generate fanotify events */
#define FMODE_NONOTIFY ((__force fmode_t)0x4000000)
+/* File can be read using splice */
+#define FMODE_SPLICE_READ ((__force fmode_t)0x8000000)
+/* File can be written using splice */
+#define FMODE_SPLICE_WRITE ((__force fmode_t)0x10000000)
+
/*
* Flag for rw_copy_check_uvector and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector
* that indicates that they should check the contents of the iovec are
Introduce FMODE_SPLICE_READ and FMODE_SPLICE_WRITE. These modes check whether it is legal to read or write a file using splice. Both get automatically set on regular files and are not checked when a 'struct fileoperations' includes the splice_{read,write} methods. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de> --- fs/open.c | 4 ++++ fs/splice.c | 6 ++++++ include/linux/fs.h | 5 +++++ 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)