pipe: change pipe_write() to never add a zero-sized buffer
a194dfe6 ("pipe: Rearrange sequence in pipe_write() to preallocate slot") changed pipe_write() to increment pipe->head in advance. IIUC to avoid the race with the post_one_notification()-like code which can add another buffer under pipe->rd_wait.lock without pipe->mutex. This is no longer necessary after c73be61c ("pipe: Add general notification queue support"), pipe_write() checks pipe_has_watch_queue() and returns -EXDEV at the start. And can't help in any case, pipe_write() no longer takes this rd_wait.lock spinlock. Change pipe_write() to call copy_page_from_iter() first and do nothing if it fails. This way pipe_write() can't add a zero-sized buffer and we can simplify pipe_read() which currently has to take care of this very unlikely case. Also, with this patch we can probably kill eat_empty_buffer() and more "is this buffer empty" checks in fs/splice.c later. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250209150718.GA17013@redhat.com/ Signed-off-by:Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210114039.GA3588@redhat.com Tested-by:
K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Signed-off-by:
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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