Merge tag 'vfs-6.8.rw' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs rw updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains updates from Amir for read-write backing file helpers
  for stacking filesystems such as overlayfs:

   - Fanotify is currently in the process of introducing pre content
     events. Roughly, a new permission event will be added indicating
     that it is safe to write to the file being accessed. These events
     are used by hierarchical storage managers to e.g., fill the content
     of files on first access.

     During that work we noticed that our current permission checking is
     inconsistent in rw_verify_area() and remap_verify_area().
     Especially in the splice code permission checking is done multiple
     times. For example, one time for the whole range and then again for
     partial ranges inside the iterator.

     In addition, we mostly do permission checking before we call
     file_start_write() except for a few places where we call it after.
     For pre-content events we need such permission checking to be done
     before file_start_write(). So this is a nice reason to clean this
     all up.

     After this series, all permission checking is done before
     file_start_write().

     As part of this cleanup we also massaged the splice code a bit. We
     got rid of a few helpers because we are alredy drowning in special
     read-write helpers. We also cleaned up the return types for splice
     helpers.

   - Introduce generic read-write helpers for backing files. This lifts
     some overlayfs code to common code so it can be used by the FUSE
     passthrough work coming in over the next cycles. Make Amir and
     Miklos the maintainers for this new subsystem of the vfs"

* tag 'vfs-6.8.rw' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (30 commits)
  fs: fix __sb_write_started() kerneldoc formatting
  fs: factor out backing_file_mmap() helper
  fs: factor out backing_file_splice_{read,write}() helpers
  fs: factor out backing_file_{read,write}_iter() helpers
  fs: prepare for stackable filesystems backing file helpers
  fsnotify: optionally pass access range in file permission hooks
  fsnotify: assert that file_start_write() is not held in permission hooks
  fsnotify: split fsnotify_perm() into two hooks
  fs: use splice_copy_file_range() inline helper
  splice: return type ssize_t from all helpers
  fs: use do_splice_direct() for nfsd/ksmbd server-side-copy
  fs: move file_start_write() into direct_splice_actor()
  fs: fork splice_file_range() from do_splice_direct()
  fs: create {sb,file}_write_not_started() helpers
  fs: create file_write_started() helper
  fs: create __sb_write_started() helper
  fs: move kiocb_start_write() into vfs_iocb_iter_write()
  fs: move permission hook out of do_iter_read()
  fs: move permission hook out of do_iter_write()
  fs: move file_start_write() into vfs_iter_write()
  ...

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 3a970a0644ce..bf2ee2e0d45d 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -244,10 +244,10 @@ int do_statx(int dfd, struct filename *filename, unsigned int flags,
 /*
  * fs/splice.c:
  */
-long splice_file_to_pipe(struct file *in,
-			 struct pipe_inode_info *opipe,
-			 loff_t *offset,
-			 size_t len, unsigned int flags);
+ssize_t splice_file_to_pipe(struct file *in,
+			    struct pipe_inode_info *opipe,
+			    loff_t *offset,
+			    size_t len, unsigned int flags);
 
 /*
  * fs/xattr.c: