splice: Make do_splice_to() generic and export it

Rename do_splice_to() to vfs_splice_read() and export it so that it can be
used as a helper when calling down to a lower layer filesystem as it
performs all the necessary checks[1].

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAJfpeguGksS3sCigmRi9hJdUec8qtM9f+_9jC1rJhsXT+dV01w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522135018.2742245-6-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
This commit is contained in:
David Howells
2023-05-22 14:49:52 +01:00
committed by Jens Axboe
parent e69f37bce1
commit 6a3f30b8bd
2 changed files with 23 additions and 7 deletions

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@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ extern ssize_t splice_to_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *,
struct splice_pipe_desc *);
extern ssize_t add_to_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *,
struct pipe_buffer *);
long vfs_splice_read(struct file *in, loff_t *ppos,
struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, size_t len,
unsigned int flags);
extern ssize_t splice_direct_to_actor(struct file *, struct splice_desc *,
splice_direct_actor *);
extern long do_splice(struct file *in, loff_t *off_in,