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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2017-02-18 09:44:03 +0300
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2017-10-12 05:36:54 +0300
commit09cf698a594276139b7dfafb232af3fe4fbc4438 (patch)
tree163c2dbfca800af81aed88f993e6db004093c35b /lib
parent6d1ff4d6f37dc3c14d9fc08dbbbb920a12c21f84 (diff)
downloadlinux-09cf698a594276139b7dfafb232af3fe4fbc4438.tar.xz
new primitive: iov_iter_for_each_range()
For kvec and bvec: feeds segments to given callback as long as it returns 0. For iovec and pipe: fails. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/iov_iter.c22
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index 1c1c06ddc20a..970212670b6a 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -1446,3 +1446,25 @@ int import_single_range(int rw, void __user *buf, size_t len,
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(import_single_range);
+
+int iov_iter_for_each_range(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes,
+ int (*f)(struct kvec *vec, void *context),
+ void *context)
+{
+ struct kvec w;
+ int err = -EINVAL;
+ if (!bytes)
+ return 0;
+
+ iterate_all_kinds(i, bytes, v, -EINVAL, ({
+ w.iov_base = kmap(v.bv_page) + v.bv_offset;
+ w.iov_len = v.bv_len;
+ err = f(&w, context);
+ kunmap(v.bv_page);
+ err;}), ({
+ w = v;
+ err = f(&w, context);})
+ )
+ return err;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_iter_for_each_range);