VFS: Add iov_iter_fault_in_multipages_readable()

simillar to iov_iter_fault_in_readable() but differs in that it is
not limited to faulting in the first iovec and instead faults in
"bytes" bytes iterating over the iovecs as necessary.

Also, instead of only faulting in the first and last page of the
range, all pages are faulted in.

This function is needed by NTFS when it does multi page file
writes.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <anton@tuxera.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
index 9d96e283520c..b80f84376b91 100644
--- a/lib/iov_iter.c
+++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
@@ -317,6 +317,32 @@ int iov_iter_fault_in_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_iter_fault_in_readable);
 
+/*
+ * Fault in one or more iovecs of the given iov_iter, to a maximum length of
+ * bytes.  For each iovec, fault in each page that constitutes the iovec.
+ *
+ * Return 0 on success, or non-zero if the memory could not be accessed (i.e.
+ * because it is an invalid address).
+ */
+int iov_iter_fault_in_multipages_readable(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes)
+{
+	size_t skip = i->iov_offset;
+	const struct iovec *iov;
+	int err;
+	struct iovec v;
+
+	if (!(i->type & (ITER_BVEC|ITER_KVEC))) {
+		iterate_iovec(i, bytes, v, iov, skip, ({
+			err = fault_in_multipages_readable(v.iov_base,
+					v.iov_len);
+			if (unlikely(err))
+			return err;
+		0;}))
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_iter_fault_in_multipages_readable);
+
 void iov_iter_init(struct iov_iter *i, int direction,
 			const struct iovec *iov, unsigned long nr_segs,
 			size_t count)