new helper: copy_page_from_iter()

parallel to copy_page_to_iter().  pipe_write() switched to it (and became
->write_iter()).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 78 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/iov_iter.c b/mm/iov_iter.c
index a5c691c1a283..081e3273085b 100644
--- a/mm/iov_iter.c
+++ b/mm/iov_iter.c
@@ -82,6 +82,84 @@ done:
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_page_to_iter);
 
+size_t copy_page_from_iter(struct page *page, size_t offset, size_t bytes,
+			 struct iov_iter *i)
+{
+	size_t skip, copy, left, wanted;
+	const struct iovec *iov;
+	char __user *buf;
+	void *kaddr, *to;
+
+	if (unlikely(bytes > i->count))
+		bytes = i->count;
+
+	if (unlikely(!bytes))
+		return 0;
+
+	wanted = bytes;
+	iov = i->iov;
+	skip = i->iov_offset;
+	buf = iov->iov_base + skip;
+	copy = min(bytes, iov->iov_len - skip);
+
+	if (!fault_in_pages_readable(buf, copy)) {
+		kaddr = kmap_atomic(page);
+		to = kaddr + offset;
+
+		/* first chunk, usually the only one */
+		left = __copy_from_user_inatomic(to, buf, copy);
+		copy -= left;
+		skip += copy;
+		to += copy;
+		bytes -= copy;
+
+		while (unlikely(!left && bytes)) {
+			iov++;
+			buf = iov->iov_base;
+			copy = min(bytes, iov->iov_len);
+			left = __copy_from_user_inatomic(to, buf, copy);
+			copy -= left;
+			skip = copy;
+			to += copy;
+			bytes -= copy;
+		}
+		if (likely(!bytes)) {
+			kunmap_atomic(kaddr);
+			goto done;
+		}
+		offset = to - kaddr;
+		buf += copy;
+		kunmap_atomic(kaddr);
+		copy = min(bytes, iov->iov_len - skip);
+	}
+	/* Too bad - revert to non-atomic kmap */
+	kaddr = kmap(page);
+	to = kaddr + offset;
+	left = __copy_from_user(to, buf, copy);
+	copy -= left;
+	skip += copy;
+	to += copy;
+	bytes -= copy;
+	while (unlikely(!left && bytes)) {
+		iov++;
+		buf = iov->iov_base;
+		copy = min(bytes, iov->iov_len);
+		left = __copy_from_user(to, buf, copy);
+		copy -= left;
+		skip = copy;
+		to += copy;
+		bytes -= copy;
+	}
+	kunmap(page);
+done:
+	i->count -= wanted - bytes;
+	i->nr_segs -= iov - i->iov;
+	i->iov = iov;
+	i->iov_offset = skip;
+	return wanted - bytes;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(copy_page_from_iter);
+
 static size_t __iovec_copy_from_user_inatomic(char *vaddr,
 			const struct iovec *iov, size_t base, size_t bytes)
 {