On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 03:44:20PM +0530, SelvaKumar S wrote:
> From: Nitesh Shetty <[email protected]>
> 
> Add new BLKCOPY ioctl that offloads copying of one or more sources ranges
> to a destination in the device. COPY ioctl accepts a 'copy_range'
> structure that contains destination (in sectors), no of sources and
> pointer to the array of source ranges. Each source range is represented by
> 'range_entry' that contains start and length of source ranges (in sectors)
> 
> MAX_COPY_NR_RANGE, limits the number of entries for the IOCTL and
> MAX_COPY_TOTAL_LENGTH limits the total copy length, IOCTL can handle.
> 
> Example code, to issue BLKCOPY:
> /* Sample example to copy three source-ranges [0, 8] [16, 8] [32,8] to
>  * [64,24], on the same device */
> 
> int main(void)
> {
>       int ret, fd;
>       struct range_entry source_range[] = {{.src = 0, .len = 8},
>               {.src = 16, .len = 8}, {.src = 32, .len = 8},};
>       struct copy_range cr;
> 
>       cr.dest = 64;
>       cr.nr_range = 3;
>       cr.range_list = (__u64)&source_range;
> 
>       fd = open("/dev/nvme0n1", O_RDWR);
>       if (fd < 0) return 1;
> 
>       ret = ioctl(fd, BLKCOPY, &cr);
>       if (ret < 0) printf("copy failure\n");
> 
>       close(fd);
> 
>       return ret;
> }
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nitesh Shetty <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: SelvaKumar S <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Kanchan Joshi <[email protected]>
> ---
>  block/ioctl.c           | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/uapi/linux/fs.h |  8 ++++++++
>  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
> index eb0491e90b9a..2af56d01e9fe 100644
> --- a/block/ioctl.c
> +++ b/block/ioctl.c
> @@ -143,6 +143,37 @@ static int blk_ioctl_discard(struct block_device *bdev, 
> fmode_t mode,
>                                   GFP_KERNEL, flags);
>  }
>  
> +static int blk_ioctl_copy(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
> +             unsigned long arg)
> +{
> +     struct copy_range crange;
> +     struct range_entry *rlist;
> +     int ret;
> +
> +     if (!(mode & FMODE_WRITE))
> +             return -EBADF;
> +
> +     if (copy_from_user(&crange, (void __user *)arg, sizeof(crange)))
> +             return -EFAULT;
> +
> +     rlist = kmalloc_array(crange.nr_range, sizeof(*rlist),
> +                     GFP_KERNEL);

No error checking for huge values of nr_range?  Is that wise?  You
really want userspace to be able to allocate "all" of the kernel memory
in the system?

thanks,

greg k-h

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