iov_iter: add helper to save iov_iter state

In an ideal world, when someone is passed an iov_iter and returns X bytes,
then X bytes would have been consumed/advanced from the iov_iter. But we
have use cases that always consume the entire iterator, a few examples
of that are iomap and bdev O_DIRECT. This means we cannot rely on the
state of the iov_iter once we've called ->read_iter() or ->write_iter().

This would be easier if we didn't always have to deal with truncate of
the iov_iter, as rewinding would be trivial without that. We recently
added a commit to track the truncate state, but that grew the iov_iter
by 8 bytes and wasn't the best solution.

Implement a helper to save enough of the iov_iter state to sanely restore
it after we've called the read/write iterator helpers. This currently
only works for IOVEC/BVEC/KVEC as that's all we need, support for other
iterator types are left as an exercise for the reader.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAHk-=wiacKV4Gh-MYjteU0LwNBSGpWrK-Ov25HdqB1ewinrFPg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index 5265024e8b90..984c4ab74859 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ enum iter_type {
 	ITER_DISCARD,
 };
 
+struct iov_iter_state {
+	size_t iov_offset;
+	size_t count;
+	unsigned long nr_segs;
+};
+
 struct iov_iter {
 	u8 iter_type;
 	bool data_source;
@@ -55,6 +61,14 @@ static inline enum iter_type iov_iter_type(const struct iov_iter *i)
 	return i->iter_type;
 }
 
+static inline void iov_iter_save_state(struct iov_iter *iter,
+				       struct iov_iter_state *state)
+{
+	state->iov_offset = iter->iov_offset;
+	state->count = iter->count;
+	state->nr_segs = iter->nr_segs;
+}
+
 static inline bool iter_is_iovec(const struct iov_iter *i)
 {
 	return iov_iter_type(i) == ITER_IOVEC;
@@ -233,6 +247,7 @@ ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages(struct iov_iter *i, struct page **pages,
 ssize_t iov_iter_get_pages_alloc(struct iov_iter *i, struct page ***pages,
 			size_t maxsize, size_t *start);
 int iov_iter_npages(const struct iov_iter *i, int maxpages);
+void iov_iter_restore(struct iov_iter *i, struct iov_iter_state *state);
 
 const void *dup_iter(struct iov_iter *new, struct iov_iter *old, gfp_t flags);