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-rw-r--r--fs/splice.c27
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index f9a9be797b0c..d815a69f6589 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -867,12 +867,24 @@ static long do_splice_from(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct file *out,
return out->f_op->splice_write(pipe, out, ppos, len, flags);
}
-/*
- * Attempt to initiate a splice from a file to a pipe.
+/**
+ * vfs_splice_read - Read data from a file and splice it into a pipe
+ * @in: File to splice from
+ * @ppos: Input file offset
+ * @pipe: Pipe to splice to
+ * @len: Number of bytes to splice
+ * @flags: Splice modifier flags (SPLICE_F_*)
+ *
+ * Splice the requested amount of data from the input file to the pipe. This
+ * is synchronous as the caller must hold the pipe lock across the entire
+ * operation.
+ *
+ * If successful, it returns the amount of data spliced, 0 if it hit the EOF or
+ * a hole and a negative error code otherwise.
*/
-static long do_splice_to(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
- struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, size_t len,
- unsigned int flags)
+long vfs_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
+ struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, size_t len,
+ unsigned int flags)
{
unsigned int p_space;
int ret;
@@ -895,6 +907,7 @@ static long do_splice_to(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
return warn_unsupported(in, "read");
return in->f_op->splice_read(in, ppos, pipe, len, flags);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_splice_read);
/**
* splice_direct_to_actor - splices data directly between two non-pipes
@@ -964,7 +977,7 @@ ssize_t splice_direct_to_actor(struct file *in, struct splice_desc *sd,
size_t read_len;
loff_t pos = sd->pos, prev_pos = pos;
- ret = do_splice_to(in, &pos, pipe, len, flags);
+ ret = vfs_splice_read(in, &pos, pipe, len, flags);
if (unlikely(ret <= 0))
goto out_release;
@@ -1112,7 +1125,7 @@ long splice_file_to_pipe(struct file *in,
pipe_lock(opipe);
ret = wait_for_space(opipe, flags);
if (!ret)
- ret = do_splice_to(in, offset, opipe, len, flags);
+ ret = vfs_splice_read(in, offset, opipe, len, flags);
pipe_unlock(opipe);
if (ret > 0)
wakeup_pipe_readers(opipe);