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Commit 42324c62 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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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 29e35094
(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: default avatarVolker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Reported-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarOctavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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