iov_iter: Introduce fault_in_iov_iter_writeable

Introduce a new fault_in_iov_iter_writeable helper for safely faulting
in an iterator for writing.  Uses get_user_pages() to fault in the pages
without actually writing to them, which would be destructive.

We'll use fault_in_iov_iter_writeable in gfs2 once we've determined that
the iterator passed to .read_iter isn't in memory.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/uio.h b/include/linux/uio.h
index d18458af6681..25d1c24fd829 100644
--- a/include/linux/uio.h
+++ b/include/linux/uio.h
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ size_t copy_page_from_iter_atomic(struct page *page, unsigned offset,
 void iov_iter_advance(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
 void iov_iter_revert(struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
 size_t fault_in_iov_iter_readable(const struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
+size_t fault_in_iov_iter_writeable(const struct iov_iter *i, size_t bytes);
 size_t iov_iter_single_seg_count(const struct iov_iter *i);
 size_t copy_page_to_iter(struct page *page, size_t offset, size_t bytes,
 			 struct iov_iter *i);