12ee4b66af
The current behaviour caused an asymmetry where some write APIs
(write, sendfile) would notify the written-to/read-from objects,
but splice wouldn't.
This affected userspace which uses inotify, most notably coreutils
tail -f, to monitor pipes.
If the pipe buffer had been filled by a splice-family function:
* tail wouldn't know and thus wouldn't service the pipe, and
* all writes to the pipe would block because it's full,
thus service was denied.
(For the particular case of tail -f this could be worked around
with ---disable-inotify.)
Fixes: 983652c69199 ("splice: report related fsnotify events")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/jbyihkyk5dtaohdwjyivambb2gffyjs3dodpofafnkkunxq7bu@jngkdxx65pux/t/#u
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/1039488
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <604ec704d933e0e0121d9e107ce914512e045fad.1688393619.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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