iov_iter: Introduce fault_in_iov_iter_writeable

Introduce a new fault_in_iov_iter_writeable helper for safely faulting
in an iterator for writing.  Uses get_user_pages() to fault in the pages
without actually writing to them, which would be destructive.

We'll use fault_in_iov_iter_writeable in gfs2 once we've determined that
the iterator passed to .read_iter isn't in memory.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index ce3d4f610626..ac9a87e727a3 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -467,6 +467,45 @@ size_t fault_in_iov_iter_readable(const struct iov_iter *i, size_t size)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fault_in_iov_iter_readable);
 
+/*
+ * fault_in_iov_iter_writeable - fault in iov iterator for writing
+ * @i: iterator
+ * @size: maximum length
+ *
+ * Faults in the iterator using get_user_pages(), i.e., without triggering
+ * hardware page faults.  This is primarily useful when we already know that
+ * some or all of the pages in @i aren't in memory.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of bytes not faulted in, like copy_to_user() and
+ * copy_from_user().
+ *
+ * Always returns 0 for non-user-space iterators.
+ */
+size_t fault_in_iov_iter_writeable(const struct iov_iter *i, size_t size)
+{
+	if (iter_is_iovec(i)) {
+		size_t count = min(size, iov_iter_count(i));
+		const struct iovec *p;
+		size_t skip;
+
+		size -= count;
+		for (p = i->iov, skip = i->iov_offset; count; p++, skip = 0) {
+			size_t len = min(count, p->iov_len - skip);
+			size_t ret;
+
+			if (unlikely(!len))
+				continue;
+			ret = fault_in_safe_writeable(p->iov_base + skip, len);
+			count -= len - ret;
+			if (ret)
+				break;
+		}
+		return count + size;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(fault_in_iov_iter_writeable);
+
 void iov_iter_init(struct iov_iter *i, unsigned int direction,
 			const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs,
 			size_t count)