pipe: Add general notification queue support

Make it possible to have a general notification queue built on top of a
standard pipe.  Notifications are 'spliced' into the pipe and then read
out.  splice(), vmsplice() and sendfile() are forbidden on pipes used for
notifications as post_one_notification() cannot take pipe->mutex.  This
means that notifications could be posted in between individual pipe
buffers, making iov_iter_revert() difficult to effect.

The way the notification queue is used is:

 (1) An application opens a pipe with a special flag and indicates the
     number of messages it wishes to be able to queue at once (this can
     only be set once):

	pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE);
	ioctl(fds[0], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth);

 (2) The application then uses poll() and read() as normal to extract data
     from the pipe.  read() will return multiple notifications if the
     buffer is big enough, but it will not split a notification across
     buffers - rather it will return a short read or EMSGSIZE.

     Notification messages include a length in the header so that the
     caller can split them up.

Each message has a header that describes it:

	struct watch_notification {
		__u32	type:24;
		__u32	subtype:8;
		__u32	info;
	};

The type indicates the source (eg. mount tree changes, superblock events,
keyring changes, block layer events) and the subtype indicates the event
type (eg. mount, unmount; EIO, EDQUOT; link, unlink).  The info field
indicates a number of things, including the entry length, an ID assigned to
a watchpoint contributing to this buffer and type-specific flags.

Supplementary data, such as the key ID that generated an event, can be
attached in additional slots.  The maximum message size is 127 bytes.
Messages may not be padded or aligned, so there is no guarantee, for
example, that the notification type will be on a 4-byte bounary.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
index fd0a1e7e5959..50f3c0260c00 100644
--- a/fs/splice.c
+++ b/fs/splice.c
@@ -1122,8 +1122,8 @@ long do_splice(struct file *in, loff_t __user *off_in,
 		     !(out->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)))
 		return -EBADF;
 
-	ipipe = get_pipe_info(in);
-	opipe = get_pipe_info(out);
+	ipipe = get_pipe_info(in, true);
+	opipe = get_pipe_info(out, true);
 
 	if (ipipe && opipe) {
 		if (off_in || off_out)
@@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@ static int pipe_to_user(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf,
 static long vmsplice_to_user(struct file *file, struct iov_iter *iter,
 			     unsigned int flags)
 {
-	struct pipe_inode_info *pipe = get_pipe_info(file);
+	struct pipe_inode_info *pipe = get_pipe_info(file, true);
 	struct splice_desc sd = {
 		.total_len = iov_iter_count(iter),
 		.flags = flags,
@@ -1308,7 +1308,7 @@ static long vmsplice_to_pipe(struct file *file, struct iov_iter *iter,
 	if (flags & SPLICE_F_GIFT)
 		buf_flag = PIPE_BUF_FLAG_GIFT;
 
-	pipe = get_pipe_info(file);
+	pipe = get_pipe_info(file, true);
 	if (!pipe)
 		return -EBADF;
 
@@ -1757,8 +1757,8 @@ static int link_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *ipipe,
 static long do_tee(struct file *in, struct file *out, size_t len,
 		   unsigned int flags)
 {
-	struct pipe_inode_info *ipipe = get_pipe_info(in);
-	struct pipe_inode_info *opipe = get_pipe_info(out);
+	struct pipe_inode_info *ipipe = get_pipe_info(in, true);
+	struct pipe_inode_info *opipe = get_pipe_info(out, true);
 	int ret = -EINVAL;
 
 	if (unlikely(!(in->f_mode & FMODE_READ) ||