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David Howells 219d92056b splice, net: Fix SPLICE_F_MORE signalling in splice_direct_to_actor()
splice_direct_to_actor() doesn't manage SPLICE_F_MORE correctly[1] - and,
as a result, it incorrectly signals/fails to signal MSG_MORE when splicing
to a socket.  The problem I'm seeing happens when a short splice occurs
because we got a short read due to hitting the EOF on a file: as the length
read (read_len) is less than the remaining size to be spliced (len),
SPLICE_F_MORE (and thus MSG_MORE) is set.

The issue is that, for the moment, we have no way to know *why* the short
read occurred and so can't make a good decision on whether we *should* keep
MSG_MORE set.

MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST was added to work around this, but that is also set
incorrectly under some circumstances - for example if a short read fills a
single pipe_buffer, but the next read would return more (seqfile can do
this).

This was observed with the multi_chunk_sendfile tests in the tls kselftest
program.  Some of those tests would hang and time out when the last chunk
of file was less than the sendfile request size:

	build/kselftest/net/tls -r tls.12_aes_gcm.multi_chunk_sendfile

This has been observed before[2] and worked around in AF_TLS[3].

Fix this by making splice_direct_to_actor() always signal SPLICE_F_MORE if
we haven't yet hit the requested operation size.  SPLICE_F_MORE remains
signalled if the user passed it in to splice() but otherwise gets cleared
when we've read sufficient data to fulfill the request.

If, however, we get a premature EOF from ->splice_read(), have sent at
least one byte and SPLICE_F_MORE was not set by the caller, ->splice_eof()
will be invoked.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
cc: Boris Pismenny <borisp@nvidia.com>
cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/499791.1685485603@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1591392508-14592-1-git-send-email-pooja.trivedi@stackpath.com/ [2]
Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=d452d48b9f8b1a7f8152d33ef52cfd7fe1735b0a [3]
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2023-06-08 19:40:31 -07:00
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