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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-10-01 15:26:00 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-10-02 09:46:05 -0700
commit42324c62704365d6a3e89138dea55909d2f26afe (patch)
tree6a56f042aebb4e0dbc8da7e904d79989e42b3666 /net
parent914a9ab386a288d0f22252fc268ecbc048cdcbd5 (diff)
net: splice() from tcp to pipe should take into account O_NONBLOCK
tcp_splice_read() doesnt take into account socket's O_NONBLOCK flag Before this patch : splice(socket,0,pipe,0,128*1024,SPLICE_F_MOVE); causes a random endless block (if pipe is full) and splice(socket,0,pipe,0,128*1024,SPLICE_F_MOVE | SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK); will return 0 immediately if the TCP buffer is empty. User application has no way to instruct splice() that socket should be in blocking mode but pipe in nonblock more. Many projects cannot use splice(tcp -> pipe) because of this flaw. http://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=history;f=source3/lib/recvfile.c;h=ea0159642137390a0f7e57a123684e6e63e47581;hb=HEAD http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0807.2/0687.html Linus introduced SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK in commit 29e350944fdc2dfca102500790d8ad6d6ff4f69d (splice: add SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK flag ) It doesn't make the splice itself necessarily nonblocking (because the actual file descriptors that are spliced from/to may block unless they have the O_NONBLOCK flag set), but it makes the splice pipe operations nonblocking. Linus intention was clear : let SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK control the splice pipe mode only This patch instruct tcp_splice_read() to use the underlying file O_NONBLOCK flag, as other socket operations do. Users will then call : splice(socket,0,pipe,0,128*1024,SPLICE_F_MOVE | SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK ); to block on data coming from socket (if file is in blocking mode), and not block on pipe output (to avoid deadlock) First version of this patch was submitted by Octavian Purdila Reported-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/tcp.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/tcp.c b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
index 7bb8479b1ea..64d0af67582 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -580,7 +580,7 @@ ssize_t tcp_splice_read(struct socket *sock, loff_t *ppos,
lock_sock(sk);
- timeo = sock_rcvtimeo(sk, flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK);
+ timeo = sock_rcvtimeo(sk, sock->file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK);
while (tss.len) {
ret = __tcp_splice_read(sk, &tss);
if (ret < 0)